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    Royal Air Force Syerston, commonly known simply as RAF Syerston (ICAO: EGXY), is a Royal Air Force station in the parish of Flintham, near Newark, Nottinghamshire...
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    On 20 September 1958, during an air show at RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire, a prototype Avro Vulcan bomber crashed. All four crew on board and three people...
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    Flying Training School, which was newly reformed for this purpose at RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire, within No. 22 (Training) Group of Air Command. The...
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    Way, and the settlement of Syerston. RAF Syerston is almost all in Flintham parish, immediately to the south of Syerston parish and to the west of the...
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    Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, England. ZA267 Tornado F2T on display at RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire, England. ZA319 Tornado GR1T on display at the Boscombe...
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  • located at RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire and gliding takes places from several sites throughout the UK using the Grob Viking T1. The RAF Central Gliding...
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    Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
    1 Flying Training School (RAF Shawbury) – basic and advanced helicopter training. No. 2 Flying Training School (RAF Syerston) – gliding training provided...
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    RAF Cranwell Air Training Corps Combined Cadet Force (Royal Air Force) No. 2 Flying Training School, at RAF Syerston Central Gliding School, at RAF Syerston...
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    29 EGS – (RAF Syerston) 645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron formerly 26 GS – (RAF Topcliffe) 661 Volunteer Gliding Squadron formerly 1 EGS – (RAF Kirknewton)...
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    2017. "RAF Syerston – About us". RAF.MoD.uk. Royal Air Force. Retrieved 25 June 2017. "645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron". Retrieved 9 April 2021. "RAF Valley...
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    member of the medical team called out on 8 December 1942 from RAF Rauceby to RAF Syerston to attend to Group Captain Walker. She was a WAAF corporal and...
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    control of HQ No. 2 Flying Training School RAF at RAF Syerston. It is now home to 612 Volunteer Gliding Squadron RAF as the primary military unit, providing...
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    function is undertaken remotely by an individual within the HQ of 2 FTS at RAF Syerston. At the foot of the memorial is inscribed the war-time quote commemorating...
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    No. 5 Group RAF (5 Gp) was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 – 1945) by AVM Sir Ralph...
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    airfield was initially used by the Royal Air Force as a satellite of RAF Syerston from 1940 until October 1943. It was known as USAAF Station AAF-488 for...
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  • Experience Flight RAF, RAF Leeming No. 12 Air Experience Flight RAF, RAF Turnhouse No. 13 Air Experience Flight RAF, RAF Aldergrove RAF Syerston Air Cadet Central...
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  • RAF St Mawgan — vacant RAF Syerston — vacant RAF Valley — William, Prince of Wales (styled Royal Honorary Air Commodore) RAF Waddington — Prince Edward...
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  • 2007, p. 105. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
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    then follows the River Trent to near RAF Syerston, which is the most northern part of the district, although Syerston the village itself is in the Newark...
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    Royal Air Force Spitalgate or more simply RAF Spitalgate formerly known as RFC Grantham and RAF Grantham was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force...
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  • 1 Squadron RAF Regiment No. II Squadron RAF Regiment No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment (C-UAS) No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment No...
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    flying out to RAF Syerston and RAF Newton to be loaded with their bombs. On 14 July 1941, both 300 and 301 squadrons were transferred to RAF Hemswell. After...
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    Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass engine. It crashed at a flying display at RAF Syerston in September 1958. The second prototype, VX777, first flew on 3 September...
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  • April 1955. On 1 May 1955 No. 22 Flying Training School RAF (22 FTS) at RAF Syerston was renamed to 1 FTS. It flew the Percival Provost T.1, de Havilland...
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    by the Viper 102, and this entered service with No. 2 FTS, located at RAF Syerston, during June 1959, when deliveries commenced from the Hunting Aircraft...
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    Storage Units (ASU)s. List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons List of RAF Regiment units List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons List of Army Air...
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    Middle 1st: Ollerton parish church and Rufford Abbey Middle 2nd: RAF Syerston at Syerston and Newark on Trent market place with the parish church and spire...
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  • United Kingdom (and its Crown Dependencies) begin with the two letters "EG". RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands also uses the "EG" code. Airport names...
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    as a result of which No.5 Group moved its No.50 Squadron to RAF Swinderby. From RAF Syerston, No.1 Group moved in two of the Polish squadrons under its...
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    operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...
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