Royal Air Force Driffield or RAF Driffield is a former Royal Air Force station in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. It lies about 2 miles (3 km)...

Driffield, also known as Great Driffield (neighbouring Little Driffield), is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England....

July 1938) No. 102 Squadron RAF (Handley Page Heyford) (July 1937 – July 1938) – Moved to RAF Driffield No. 75 Squadron RAF (Handley Page Harrow and Vickers...

moved south to RAF Cranfield in Bedfordshire on 20 April 1940. A detachment of No. 77 and No. 109 Squadron Whitleys from RAF Driffield returned the same...

moving to RAF Driffield. No. 610 Squadron between 29 August 1941 and 14 January 1942 with the Supermarine Spitfire IIA/VB before moving to RAF Hutton Cranswick...

Conversion Unit RAF at RAF Stradishall but reformed at RAF Driffield one day later. It was finally disbanded on 1 June 1954 still at Driffield. Lake 1999,...

had two sets of five stations, centred respectively on Hemswell and RAF Driffield. When Bomber Command was subsumed into the new Strike Command on 1 April...

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...

reformed as a night fighter squadron flying de Havilland Venom NF.2s from RAF Driffield, being disbanded on 3 June 1957 and reformed on 1 October, by renumbering...

111 bombers, escorted by 34 Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighters, and RAF Driffield was attacked by 50 unescorted Junkers Ju 88 multirole combat aircraft...

oil targets and ports. On 1 April 1941 104 Squadron was formed at RAF Driffield as part of No. 4 Group, equipped with the Vickers Wellington and carried...

58 Squadron RAF – December 1924 to January 1938 (RAF Worthy Down, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Driffield, RAF Boscombe Down) No. 75 Squadron RAF – March to September...

Squadron – RAF Driffield, Yorkshire No. 102 (Strategic Missile) Squadron – RAF Full Sutton, Yorkshire No. 150 (Strategic Missile) Squadron – RAF Carnaby...

In late 1945, the squadron was disbanded. The squadron was formed at RAF Driffield in Yorkshire, England, on 10 October 1942, under Article XV of the Empire...

Ground for No. 203 Squadron (then based at RAF Driffield) but closure to flying came soon after in 1954. RAF Carnaby was a PGM-17 Thor missile base from...

total of 44 people, as well as RAF airfields such as RAF Driffield, RAF Catfoss and RAF Leconfield. An attack on RAF Driffield on 15 August 1940 killed 15...

attacked by 65 Heinkel He 111s escorted by 34 Messerschmitt Bf 110s, and RAF Driffield was attacked by 50 unescorted Junkers Ju. 88s. Out of 115 bombers and...

storage site. Despite being built as a bomber airfield as a satellite to RAF Driffield, poor weather conditions meant it was never used as its intended use...

This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...

Luftwaffe (German air force) intended to destroy the British Royal Air Force (RAF). The operation came during the Battle of Britain after Britain rejected...

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...

March 1941 at RAF Driffield, in Yorkshire. Its first commander was Squadron Leader Marcus Knight, a pilot from Dannevirke who had joined the RAF in 1935. Following...

station was in use, staff were billeted at RAF Leconfield, Alamein Barracks (the former RAF Driffield), RAF Bempton, and civilian housing requisitioned...

Command, and shared the airfield at RAF Driffield with 77 Squadron. Cheshire remarked that upon arriving at Driffield he was filled with a fear that he...

with Nos. 104, 106, 142 and 269 Squadrons RAF being formed. No. 98 Squadron RAF was formed at RAF Driffield on 1 August 1959 as part of No. 1 Group on...

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...

at Hillingdon.[citation needed] On 31 August 1949 220 OCU moved to RAF Driffield in Yorkshire where it disbanded for the first time by being redesignated...

April 1941 at RAF Driffield, equipped with the Vickers Wellington and began night bombing operations in May as part of No. 4 Group RAF until February...

Programme – Page Two." Archived 2 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine RAF Driffield heritage website. Retrieved: 23 January 2010. "Surviving Javelins"....

Flying School at RAF Driffield where he was promoted to flight lieutenant on 19 December 1952 and then to 209 Advanced Flying School at RAF Weston Zoyland...