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Royal Air Force Filton or more simply RAF Filton is a former Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 5 miles (8 km) north of the city centre of Bristol, England. Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company (later British Aircraft Corporation) whose works, now owned by ...
RAF Filton: England Gloucestershire: 1916 1957 Later Bristol Filton Airport, now closed RAF Findo Gask: FG Scotland Perthshire: 1941 1948 Originally no. 25 Satellite Landing Ground, but later developed into full aerodrome. RAF Finmere: FI England Buckinghamshire: 1941 1945 RAF Finningley: FB England Yorkshire: 1915 1996
Aero-engine production started close to Filton Airfield, with the acquisition of Cosmos Engineering in 1920. [10] In the same year, the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company became the Bristol Aeroplane Company, often abbreviated to BAC. From 1929 the No. 501 (City of Bristol) Squadron RAF was based at RAF Filton.
The museum is situated on Filton Airfield and the main exhibition is housed in a First World War Grade II listed hangar, [2] A second hangar from the same era, also Grade II listed, is used as the workshop and storage area for items undergoing restoration, [3] with Concorde exhibited in a new, purpose-built hangar. The exhibits cover over 100 ...
RAF Weston-on-the-Green (flying) Widford NLG: December 1914: summer 1916: Essex: part farmland, part industry Stamford: 1916: 1 April 1918: Lincolnshire: England: RAF Wittering (flying) Wormingford NLG: December 1916: June 1919: Essex: England: farmland/WW2 airfield/gliding Worthy Down: 1917: 1 April 1918: Hampshire: England: Worthy Down ...
Formerly RAF Aldergrove, the station is now a British Army facility. [45] The RAF maintains a presence with the Northern Ireland Universities Air Squadron and No. 13 Air Experience Flight operating the Grob Tutor T1 and No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron (Royal Auxiliary Air Force). [46] Kenley Airfield: England Surrey
"United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations". UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010.
The USAF had originally applied "Griffiss Air Force Base" to Fort Worth Army Airfield in Texas on 1 January 1948, but its name was changed on 27 February to memorialize native son and Medal of Honor recipient, Major Horace Carswell, who gave his life while attempting to crash-land his crippled B-24 over China. [6]