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Origins. The origins of the United States Air Force in the UK can be traced to a series of agreements made between 27 January and 27 March 1941 which provided for American naval, ground and air support for campaigns against Nazi Germany. As a result, a special U.S. Army Observer Group was activated in London on 19 May 1941.
This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases, support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
RAF Usworth. Categories: Royal Air Force stations in England. Organisations based in County Durham. Buildings and structures in County Durham. Geography of County Durham. Military history of County Durham. Transport in County Durham. Airports in North East England.
Current airfields. Wattisham Flying Station – the biggest centralised operational Army airfield in the UK, formerly RAF Wattisham. RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) AAC Middle Wallop – formerly RAF Middle Wallop. JHC FS Aldergrove – formerly RAF Aldergrove. Stirling Lines – formerly RAF Credenhill. RAF Barkston Heath.
RAF Middleton St George is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Bomber Command station during the Second World War. It was located in County Durham, 6 mi (9.7 km) east of Darlington, England. The station's motto was Shield and Deter. The aerodrome remains active as Teesside International Airport.
Sculthorpe Training Area, [1] [3] previously Royal Air Force Sculthorpe and commonly abbreviated RAF Sculthorpe, is a training site owned by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) west of Fakenham in the county of Norfolk in England. It forms part of the Defence Training Estate .
As part of the government's Better Defence Estate strategy, announced in Nov 2016, the Army plans to, over a period of 25 years, close down and dispose of numerous bases in the UK. This more efficient approach "co-locates people and capabilities in sustainable locations around centres of mass," and also releases land for up to 55,000 new homes.