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RAF Mount Pleasant. RAF Mount Pleasant (IATA: MPN, ICAO: EGYP) (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, Mount Pleasant Complex or MPA) [2] is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The airfield goes by the motto of "Defend the right" [3] (while the motto of the islands is "Desire the right") and is ...
In August 2022, an RAF A400M aircraft flying from RAF Ascension Island was refueled for the first time by a Voyager KC.2 aircraft flying out of RAF Mount Pleasant. [47] In January 2023, an RAF A400M Atlas supported by a Voyager tanker aircraft, dropped the first of 300 fuel drums as part of a tasking to resupply the Sky Blu facility of the ...
No. 1312 Flight Royal Air Force, commonly abbreviated to 1312 Flt RAF, is an independent aircraft flight of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Currently based at Royal Air Force Station Mount Pleasant (more commonly known as RAF Mount Pleasant, and also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, MPA, and Mount Pleasant Complex) [3] [4] in East Falkland, 1312 Flt are supporting at present the defence of the ...
A number of British forces remain permanently deployed in the Falkland Islands, 40 years since the Argentine surrender in the Falklands War.
Bristow Helicopters also operate two Sikorsky S-92 helicopters, based at RAF Mount Pleasant, under contract to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, primarily for moving military personnel, equipment and supplies around the islands. A Britten-Norman Islander owned by FIGAS touching down at a landing strip on Sea Lion Island
RAF Mount Pleasant is the largest of six sites in the Falkland Islands, which is the only territory in South America with British military personnel. Mount Pleasant is supplied from a dockyard at Mare Harbour. The islands are monitored by three radar sites at Mount Alice, Byron Heights and Mount Kent, respectively. [1]
Royal Air Force, RAF Mount Pleasant [3] No. 78 Squadron RAF, (Air assault CH-47 Chinook HC.1, Search & Rescue Sea King HAR.3) No. 1435 Flight RAF, (Phantom FGR.2) No. 1312 Flight RAF, (Aerial refueling Hercules C.1K) No. 7 Signals Unit RAF, Byron Heights, West Falkland [6] No. 303 Signals Unit; No. 751 Signals Unit, Mount Alice (Falkland ...
In 1985, RAF Mount Pleasant opened, and in April 1986, Port Stanley Airport returned to civilian use. The temporary aluminium planking runway extension was removed, bringing the main 09/27 runway down to its present length and width of 918 by 19 metres (3,012 by 62 feet). [2] Although flights from Chile by regional airline Aerovias DAP did use ...