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RAAF Base Edinburgh (ICAO: YPED) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military airbase located in Edinburgh approximately 28 km (17 mi) north of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia and forms part of the Edinburgh Defence Precinct. Edinburgh is one of two defence 'super bases' in Australia, home to over 3,500 personnel from both the Royal ...
Some RAAF units were based at Butterworth Air Base as part of the Five Power Defence Arrangements. RAAF Base Cocos Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean. RAAF Base Tengah was collocated with RAF Tengah in the 1950s at what is now Tengah Airbase, Singapore.
RAAF Base Edinburgh 92WG DET A No. 92 Wing Detachment A RMAF Base Butterworth: P-8A Poseidon* 92WG DET B No. 92 Wing Detachment B RAAF Base Darwin P-8A Poseidon* 10SQN No. 10 Squadron: RAAF Base Edinburgh AP-3C Orion (ELINT) Future MC-55A 11SQN No. 11 Squadron: RAAF Base Edinburgh P-8A Poseidon/AP-3C Orion 292SQN No. 292 Squadron: RAAF Base ...
Edinburgh is an outer northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Salisbury.The suburb was created in 1997, on land straddling Penfield and Salisbury, that was compulsorily acquired by the Commonwealth Government in 1940 in order to manufacture munitions for the war effort during World War II, and later used for a number of defence-related establishments.
The Air Warfare Centre (AWC) is a Force Element Group of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) based at RAAF Base Edinburgh. [1] [2] It was formerly titled the Aerospace Operational Support Group (AOSG) and was reformed into the AWC in 2016.
The RAAF operated a number of Consolidated PBY Catalina as long-range bombers and scouts. The RAAF's heavy bomber force was predominantly made up of 287 B-24 Liberators, equipping seven squadrons, which could bomb Japanese targets as far away as Borneo and the Philippines from airfields in Australia and New Guinea. [32]
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The RAAF have a facility at Gingin, Western Australia. I'm not sure if this is officially a base, or just termed a satellite airfield of RAAF Base Pearce. Nachoman-au 09:34, 26 November 2005 (UTC) Gin Gin (named RAAF Gin Gin - no 'base') is not a base of its own, it is part of RAAF Base Pearce. But it is RAAF land and it is called RAAF Gin Gin.