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    Royal Air Force St Mawgan or more simply RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station near St Mawgan and Newquay in Cornwall, England. In 2008 the runway...
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    station, RAF St Mawgan, takes its name from the village and is next to Newquay Cornwall Airport. The River Menalhyl runs through St Mawgan village and...
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    Until 2010, the Nimrod MR2 was based at RAF Kinloss in Scotland (120, 201 and 206 Squadrons), and RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall (42 and 38(R) Squadrons). Following...
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  • Training Organisation (DSTO), is a military training organisation based at RAF St Mawgan, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It is tri-service and trains personnel...
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    located at Mawgan in Pydar, 4 NM (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northeast of the town of Newquay on Cornwall's north coast. Its runway was operated by RAF St Mawgan before...
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    RAF Kinloss, is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north east of Scotland, UK. The RAF station...
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    Air Force St Eval or RAF St Eval was a Royal Air Force station for the RAF Coastal Command, southwest of Padstow in Cornwall, England, UK. St Eval's primary...
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    at RAF St Mawgan Westland Whirlwind HAR.2 until August 1962 replaced by Whirlwind HAR.10s from August 1962 April 1974 to January 1976 - HQ at RAF Thorney...
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    206 Squadron at RAF St Eval, moved to RAF St Mawgan in 1956, moved back to RAF St Eval in 1958, disbanded in 1959. No. 240 Squadron RAF – 1952–1958, formed...
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    Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
    services. Specialist ground crew training is focused at RAF Cosford, RAF St Mawgan and MOD St. Athan. Operations are supported by numerous other flying...
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    "RAF St Mawgan – Defence Infrastructure Organisation SD Training". RAF.MoD.uk. Royal Air Force. Retrieved 25 June 2017. "RAF Syerston – About us". RAF...
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    year based at Marham while RAF St. Mawgan had its runway repaired. No. II (Army Co-operation) Squadron relocated from RAF Laarbruch, Germany to Marham...
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    Regiment, RAF St Mawgan, (Field) No. 2729 (City of Lincoln) Squadron RAuxAF Regiment, RAF Waddington, (SHORAD) No. 2890 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment, RAF Waddington...
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    RRH Portreath (redirect from RAF Portreath)
    Radar. During May 1995, ceased as an independent RAF station and became a satellite of RAF St Mawgan. As part of a major upgrade of RRH sites around the...
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    stations: RAF Cosford RAF Halton RAF Cranwell RAF Shawbury RAF St Mawgan RAF Valley RAF Woodvale MoD St Athan Headquarters, No. 22 Group, at RAF High Wycombe...
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    planes of NATO. This capability was most notably used at the air base of RAF St. Mawgan in Cornwall by British Avro Shackleton patrol planes and the Royal Netherlands...
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    Canada's CF-104s in Germany, and the Royal Air Force's Nimrod from RAF St Mawgan and RAF Kinloss in the United Kingdom and Malta in the Mediterranean. Tsetse...
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    AFHRA Document 00097383 AFHRA Document 00007547 RAF Valley History AFHRA Document 00497356 "RAF St Mawgan airfield". AFHRA Document 00007558 AFHRA Document...
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    their role from 1 March 1991, leaving Brize Norton, Manston, Leuchars and St Mawgan with the role. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Notes:...
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    review of the future roles of RAF Brize Norton, RAF Lyneham and RAF St Mawgan, in anticipation of the arrival into RAF service of the Airbus A330 Voyager...
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    to be known as the International Aviation Academy and attached to RAF St Mawgan. It was hoped to cater for students who wish to gain air- or space-related...
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  • scenes were filmed at RAF St Mawgan, five miles (8 km) from Newquay. The sequence set in Alderney was filmed in Charlestown, near St Austell in Cornwall...
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  • 2001 – Promoted to group captain. 2002 – Station commander RAF St Mawgan / Commander RAF Search and Rescue Force (until 2003). 2003 – Deputy assistant...
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  • flight on 30 March 2010 with XV232 visiting Rockall, St. Kilda, RAF St. Mawgan, RAF Valley and RAF Lossiemouth. It was originally expected that No. 42...
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    Waterford Lifeboat Solomon Browne Three helicopters Four Nimrods from RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall Beechcraft Kingair maritime patrol Alouette helicopter Morningtown...
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  • (RAF) in 1979 and Personal Staff Officer to the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe in 1981. He went on to be Station Commander at RAF St Mawgan in...
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  • (COMAIRPLYMCHAN) RAF St Mawgan No. 42 Squadron RAF — maritime patrol, Nimrod MR2 No. 236 Operational Conversion Unit RAF — Nimrod MR2 RAF Wyton No. 51 Squadron RAF —...
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    May 1948) RAF Ballykelly (May 1948 - May 1951) RAF St Mawgan (May 1951 - September 1958) RAF Ballykelly (September 1958 - April 1970) RAF Coastal Command...
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  • found a more permanent home at RAF Laarbruch. At the end of 1998 the squadron was re-located to the UK, based at RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall. In the aftermath...
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    Clyde, but since 2022 EXCON has moved to different locations, including RAF St Mawgan and Bodin Lair in Northern Norway. The Joint Warrior exercises use a...
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