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    Royal Air Force Church Fenton or RAF Church Fenton (ICAO: EGCM) is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 4.3 miles (6.9 km) south-east of Tadcaster...
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    Leeds East Airport (category Church Fenton)
    Leeds East Airport Church Fenton (ICAO: EGCM), formerly RAF Church Fenton, is an airport and former Royal Air Force station located 4.3 miles (6.9 km)...
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    RAF Church Fenton is located immediately north-east, which is now known as Leeds East Airport. The name 'Church Fenton' means a village with a church...
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    Force. It last served in 2011, as No. 85 (Reserve) Squadron posted to RAF Church Fenton. No. 85 Squadron was formed at Upavon on 1 August 1917; the station...
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    confusion with RAF Topcliffe led to the name change. RAF Marston Moor was opened on 11 November 1941, the airfield and RAF Church Fenton were the closest...
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    Rowley – RAF Church Fenton". Retrieved 28 August 2023. "Allen Rowley". The Leeds Graphic. February 1968. "Air Displays – RAF Church Fenton". Retrieved...
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    in 2023, this time at a new venue at Leeds East Airport (formerly RAF Church Fenton) in North Yorkshire, taking place on 15th and 16 July 2023. The proposed...
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    October 1939 it was taken over by RAF Fighter Command and the Mk I Spitfires of 72 squadron arrived from RAF Church Fenton. During the Battle of Britain,...
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  • from Hull University. As a formed squadron, YUAS first flew from RAF Church Fenton between 1969 and 1975. The Queen approved the badge for the squadron...
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    1943, No. 26 Squadron RAF arrived from Church Fenton. The squadron first departed for RAF Scorton, but returned, then left for RAF Peterhead, returning...
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    aircraft was on a routine daytime flight with two other aircraft, leaving RAF Scampton near Lincoln at about 10:15 and heading to the US Air Force base...
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    retained its status as an RAF relief landing ground and was used by the RAF flying training schools at RAF Church Fenton and RAF Linton-on-Ouse until the...
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    de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10. RAF Church Fenton before the airfield was decommissioned in 2013. RAF Linton-On-Ouse as the last unit to serve...
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    the unit was renumbered No. 4 Flying Training School RAF. The School was based at RAF Church Fenton, Yorkshire between 1962 and 1966 and again between 1979...
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    operations based at RAF Church Fenton in early 1941, before a move to RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey. In April, the squadron transferred to RAF Martlesham Heath in...
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    drawn from No. 73 Wing RAF, part of No. 60 Group RAF, with administrative and other human necessities catered for by RAF Church Fenton. In the 1990s, the...
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    Squadrons. RAF Culmhead was initially known as RAF Church Stanton, but it was renamed on 22 December 1943 to avoid confusion with RAF Church Fenton. It was...
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  • June to December 1945 in Norway converting back to Spitfires. At RAF Church Fenton on 1 September 1946 the squadron was renumbered to No. 257 Squadron...
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    Squadron's move to RAF Valley in November 2019. The Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron relocated to RAF Linton-on-Ouse from RAF Church Fenton in 2014. YUAS...
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    of Group Captain Moseby as the Commanding Officer of No. 21 BDS at RAF Church Fenton, North Riding of Yorkshire. At a later date, the second and third...
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    Tom Neil (section RAF career)
    to No. 249 Squadron RAF, which was an operational fighter squadron based at RAF Church Fenton in which he flew Hurricanes from RAF North Weald during the...
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  • the RAF Fighter Command order of battle at 15 September 1940, during the Battle of Britain. RAF Fighter Command Headquarters was located at RAF Bentley...
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    Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command, but they could not prevent widespread destruction of industrial cities. Only once did the RAF lose as many as nine...
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    American volunteers offering their services. No. 71 was formed at RAF Church Fenton on 19 September 1940 as the first of the Eagle Squadrons with Brewster...
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  • airfield was originally opened as a satellite of RAF Church Fenton before No. 601 Squadron RAF arrived from RAF Duxford with Bell Airacobras staying between January...
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    Kevin Sinfield: 20 December 2022 HMS Ark Royal, RN: 4 November 1941. RAF Church Fenton: 1971. HMS Ark Royal, RN: 25 October 1973. 5th Battalion The Rifles:...
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    Burmese effigy. On 1 September 1946 the squadron was re-formed at RAF Church Fenton as a fighter squadron, flying Gloster Meteors until January 1955....
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  • Wing RAF during May 1944. No. 148 Airfield Headquarters RAF The Airfield Headquarters was formed on 23 February 1944 at RAF Drem within No. 24 Wing RAF controlling...
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  • Servicing Unit RAF was disbanded at RAF Cosford on 24 June 1940. No. 21 Base Defence Wing RAF was formed on 1 January 1944 at RAF Church Fenton within No....
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    surface-to-air missile unit, at RAF Church Fenton, defending Thor IRBM sites in the area. The squadron's operational base was at RAF Breighton. Following withdrawal...
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