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Royal Air Force Croughton or more simply RAF Croughton is a Royal Air Force station which is currently a United States Air Force communications station in Northamptonshire, England. It is southeast of the village of Croughton. The station is home to the 422nd Air Base Group and operates one of Europe's largest military switchboards and ...
On 14 January 2004, the 420th Air Base Group (420 ABG) was established at RAF Fairford to improve the control of its geographically separated units (GSUs) that had been aligned beneath the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall. These units are assigned to airfields at RAF Fairford, RAF Croughton, RAF Alconbury, and RAF Molesworth.
RAF Fairford and RAF Welford house the 420th Air Base Group. Their mission is to receive, bed-down and sustain munitions to enable U.S. and NATO forces to conduct full-spectrum flying operations from USAFE's only bomber-forward operating location. RAF Fairford is a forward operating location for the Boeing B-52, the B-1 and the B-2 bomber ...
The facility is a satellite station of RAF Croughton and controlled remotely. [62] RAF Croughton: England: Northamptonshire: Non-flying station operated as a signals intelligence facility by the USAF and US intelligence agencies. The station is operated by the USAF 422nd Air Base Group (part of the 501st Combat Support Wing). [63] [64] RAF ...
The flags of the United States and Royal Air Force flying at RAF Fairford. ... RAF Croughton (USAFE) 1969th Communications Squadron (CS) (1950–1955)
The 501st Combat Support Wing was activated at RAF Mildenhall on 21 May 2005. It was a non-flying unit that provides administration and operation of units at RAF Croughton (422nd Air Base Group), RAF Alconbury (423rd Air Base Group) and RAF Fairford (420th Air Base Group). The wing moved to RAF Alconbury on 1 May 2007. [26]
RAF Croughton: 423d Air Base Squadron: RAF Molesworth: 424th Air Base Squadron: RAF Fairford: 425th Air Base Squadron: İzmir, Turkey: 426th Air Base Squadron: Stavanger, Norway: 431st Air Base Squadron: 445th Air Base Squadron: 446th Air Base Squadron: 470th Air Base Squadron: NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, Germany: 473d Air Base Squadron: 475th ...
Upper Heyford was one of those selected, the others being RAF Brize Norton, RAF Fairford and RAF Greenham Common. On 26 June 1950, men of the 801st Engineer Aviation Battalion started work on extending the runway and constructing new hardstands for SAC's larger bombers such as Convair B-36 Peacemaker and Boeing B-50 Superfortress .