No. 5 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (5 (C)OTU), was a training unit of the Royal Air Force, within No. 17 Group RAF, which was part of RAF Coastal...
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No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (3 (C)OTU), was a training unit of the Royal Air Force, within No. 17 Group RAF, which was part of RAF Coastal...
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No. 9 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (9 (C)OTU), was a training unit of the Royal Air Force, within No. 17 Group RAF, which was part of RAF Coastal...
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No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (1 (C)OTU) The Unit was formed in 1940 as part of RAF Coastal Command at RAF Silloth for training aircrew...
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No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (1 (C)OTU), was a training unit of the Royal Air Force, within No. 17 Group RAF, which was part of RAF Coastal...
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acquisition, for the construction of an airfield for RAF Coastal Command to use as a bomber operational training unit, was given for an area of fields between the...
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particularly weapons training. During the 1950s and 1960s, No. 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF (229 OCU) used Hawker Hunter aircraft for training. In 1974 the...
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RAF No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF No. 7 Equipment Disposal Depot RAF No. 85 Squadron RAF RAF College RAF College Flying Training School...
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Ireland in June 1943, based at RAF Maghaberry. 'O' Flight of No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF relocated from RAF Haverfordwest. The flight was...
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point: No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF No. 14 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF No. 50 Conversion Flight RAF No. 92 Maintenance Unit RAF No. 93...
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Buccaneer Training Flight RAF within No. 208 Squadron RAF at RAF Lossiemouth (1 October 1991 - 1992) No. 8 OTU No. 8 Operational Training Unit RAF (18 May...
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RM Chivenor (redirect from No. 624 Volunteer Gliding School)
two units were based there initially: No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF and No. 252 Squadron RAF, both operating Bristol Beaufighters, Bristol...
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Lossiemouth was transferred to No. 17 Group of RAF Coastal Command, with the arrival of No. 111 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit from the Bahamas shortly...
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runway at RAF Northolt. In May 2020, the Rotary Wing Operational Evaluation and Training Unit, which had been at Benson since 1997, adopted the No. 22 Squadron...
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Detachment from No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (January 1941 - ?) No. 7 Group Communication Flight RAF (November 1944 - March 1945) No. 17 Service...
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Haverfordwest Airport (section RAF Coastal Command)
unit to be based at RAF Haverfordwest was No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. It disbanded the same day in January 1943 as No. 7 (Coastal)...
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Islay Airport (redirect from RAF Port Ellen)
RAF Port Ellen. The following units were here at some point: Relief Landing Ground for No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (August 1941) No...
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No. 11 Operational Training Unit of RAF Bomber Command flying Vickers Wellingtons from RAF Bassingbourn. During this time No. 3 (Coastal) Operational...
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ISBN 0-86111-100-1. Operational Record Book No 751 Signals Unit (SU), Cape Greco; Terry O'Reilly (2015). The Dustbin Bandits: A Story of RAF 751 Signals Unit in Cyprus...
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February and June in 1945, No. 8 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was a lodger unit at Brawdy, due to lack of space at RAF Haverfordwest, providing photo...
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List of Vickers Wellington operators (category Lists of military units and formations by aircraft)
Unit RAF No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF No. 5 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF No. 6 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF No...
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first prime minister of the Bahamas. In August 1942, No. 111 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was established at Nassau Airport to train general...
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operational training for the RAF's fast jet squadrons. No. 19 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was formed on 1 September 1915, from members of No....
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become No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF. History of No. 4 OTU No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was formed on 16 March 1941. Its...
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transferred to No. 4 Group on 27 May 1940, at the time part of RAF Bomber Command. At the same time No. 19 Operational Training unit (No. 19 OTU) was formed...
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from its base at RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales. Its role is to provide fast jet aircrew to the Operational Conversion Units for the RAF's jet attack aircraft...
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Buckinghamshire. No. 2 Group was originally formed as No. 2 (Training) Group on 1 April 1918 at Oxford. The unit was disbanded at RAF Uxbridge on 31 March...
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for RAF Upper Heyford for No. 16 Operational Training Unit (No. 16 OTU) to provide the unit with extra airfield space for night-flying training. Much...
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aircrew training for Bristol Blenheim light bomber and used Avro Anson multi-role aircraft RAF Chivenor No. 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF aircrew...
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RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...
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