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RAF Northolt. Royal Air Force Northolt or more simply RAF Northolt (IATA: NHT, ICAO: EGWU) is a Royal Air Force station in South Ruislip, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) [3] from Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, western Greater London, England, approximately 6 mi (10 km) north of Heathrow Airport.
Sculthorpe Training Area, [1][3] previously Royal Air Force Sculthorpe / (RAF Sculthorpe), is a military training site administered by the Defence Training Estate, part of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) west of Fakenham in the county of Norfolk in England. The training area occupies the larger part ...
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 ...
Royal Air Force Waddington (IATA: WTN, ICAO: EGXW), commonly known as RAF Waddington, and informally known by its nickname 'Waddo' [5] is a Royal Air Force station located beside the village of Waddington, 4.2 miles (6.8 kilometres) south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in England. The station is the RAF's Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition ...
Royal Air Force Marham, commonly abbreviated RAF Marham (IATA: KNF, ICAO: EGYM) is a Royal Air Force station and military airbase near the village of Marham in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia. It is home to No. 138 Expeditionary Air Wing (138 EAW) and, as such, is one of the RAF's 'main operating bases' (MOB).
Asphalt. Royal Air Force Welford or more simply RAF Welford is an active Royal Air Force station in Berkshire, England. [1] The station is located approximately 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Newbury; about 50 miles (80 km) west of London. Opened in 1943, it was used during the Second World War by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army ...
Preparation for D-Day. Normandy Campaign. RAF Uxbridge was a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Uxbridge, within the London Borough of Hillingdon, occupying a 44.6-hectare (110-acre) site that originally belonged to the Hillingdon House estate. The British Government purchased the estate in 1915, three years before the founding of the RAF.
RAF Spadeadam (pronounced "Spade Adam" [2]) (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGOM) is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Cumbria, England, close to the border with Northumberland.It is the home of the 9,000 acre (36 km 2) electronic warfare (EW) tactics range, making it the largest (by area) RAF base in the United Kingdom. [3]