• Royal Air Force Oakington or more simply RAF Oakington was a Royal Air Force station located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England...
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    Oakington is a small rural Anglo-Saxon village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Oakington and Westwick, in the South Cambridgeshire district...
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    Squadron RAF at RAF Oakington with the Short Stirling I No. 35 Squadron RAF at RAF Graveley with the Handley Page Halifax II No. 83 Squadron RAF at RAF Wyton...
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    Royal Air Force Abingdon, or more simply RAF Abingdon, is a former Royal Air Force station near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It is now known as Dalton Barracks...
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  • Stations RAF Bourn RAF Downham Market RAF Graveley RAF Gransden Lodge RAF Little Staughton RAF Marham RAF Oakington RAF Upwood RAF Warboys RAF Wyton List of...
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    Squadron RAF reformed at the airfield on 1 August 1940 with the Short Stirling I before moving to RAF Oakington on 29 October 1940. No. 102 Squadron RAF between...
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    Photographic Interpretation Section of No 3 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, RAF Oakington, was integrated with CIU in February 1942 and the base was assigned...
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    1947: An RAF York crashed after overshooting at RAF Oakington. 16 July 1947: A BOAC York crashed near Basra, Iraq. 17 November 1947: An RAF York crashed...
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  • This is a list of units of the Royal Air Force Regiment. The RAF Regiment is the ground fighting force of the Royal Air Force and is charged mainly with...
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    Photographic Interpretation Section of No 3 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, RAF Oakington, in 1942. During 1942 and 1943, the CIU gradually expanded and was involved...
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  • captain made permanent in 1942. He was on a Short Stirling of No. 7 Squadron RAF during the second Thousand-bomber raid when it was shot down near the Dutch...
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    Bourn Airfield was constructed for RAF Bomber Command in 1940 as a satellite airfield for nearby RAF Oakington. Now the Rural Flying Corps uses part...
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    Photographic Interpretation Section of No 3 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, RAF Oakington, in 1942. During 1942 and 1943, the CIU gradually expanded and was involved...
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    10 Squadron at RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire. Between 1948 and 1949, the squadron took part in the Berlin Airlift, operating from RAF Lübeck. No. 10 Squadron...
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  • period were the de Havilland Tiger Moth and the North American Harvard. RAF Oakington saw the fifth incarnation of 1 FTS, when it was reformed once again...
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    This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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    support squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Boeing Chinook HC6 from RAF Odiham, Hampshire. No. 7 Squadron was formed at Farnborough Airfield on 1...
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    aircraft. RAF Oakington: 1 April 1943 – January 1944 RAF Wyton: January 1944 – 4 July 1945 RAF Upwood: 4 July 1945 – 10 October 1945 RAF Lyneham: 10 October...
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    Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
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    end of 1943, No. 627 Squadron RAF was one of the first new bomber squadron to be added to the PFF. Based at RAF Oakington, it was staffed from part of...
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    was a member of the Pathfinder squadrons. It operated from both RAF Oakington and RAF Woodhall Spa throughout the war, as a bomber squadron, reconnaissance...
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  • April 1947 at Agra. On 24 November 1947 the squadron was reformed at RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire in the transport role, operating as a unit within the...
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  • disbanded on 1 February 1946. On 24 November 1947, the squadron reformed at RAF Oakington as a Transport unit equipped with Douglas Dakota transports. It flew...
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    airfield was in Oakington, all of the hangars, housing and other buildings were in Longstanton. Two bomber squadrons operated from RAF Oakington for the rest...
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  • Mosquito aircraft, formed at Downham in April 1944, but had moved to RAF Oakington within a month. 608 Squadron re-formed at Downham in August, equipped...
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    was constructed for RAF Bomber Command in 1940 as a satellite airfield for nearby RAF Oakington. It was used by No. 101 Squadron RAF Vickers Wellingtons...
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    the squadron moved to RAF Oakington. The squadron used Consolidated Liberator IIIa, V & VIII. A detachment of No. 123 Squadron RAF from 22 September 1941...
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    the British Army, as Waterbeach Barracks. Until the closure of nearby RAF Oakington in the early 1970s, the main runway at Waterbeach remained active, along...
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  • RAF Manston on 8 December 1947 to assist in the Berlin Airlift, and remained operational after the Berlin Airlift, until disbanding at RAF Oakington on...
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  • services into India and to the Azores; in June 1946 it was located at RAF Oakington as part of No. 47 Group. In 1948 it became involved in the Berlin Air...
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