• Royal Air Force Long Kesh, or more simply RAF Long Kesh, is a former Royal Air Force station at Maze, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Various aircraft operated...
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  • with Kesh All pages with titles containing Kesh Kish (disambiguation) Lil Kesh (Keshinro Ololade, born 1995), Nigerian singer and rapper RAF Long Kesh, a...
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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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  • Ireland – Belfast No. 231 Squadron RAF – Tomahawk I/II – RAF Maghaberry 1494 TTF – Lysander/Tomahawk – RAF Long Kesh List of Royal Air Force commands Notes...
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  • 1988, p. 103. 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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  • paratroopers were to capture Langford Lodge, Aldergrove and Nutts Corner while RAF Long Kesh, Lisburn was to be destroyed. Notably, on 2 March 1989 a Dan-Air BAe...
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  • sites were studied as possible alternative civil airports including RAF Long Kesh and Lisburn. The advantage of choosing Nutts Corner was the large amount...
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    Chivenor from Aug 1941. RAF Turnberry from May 1942 until December 1942. RAF Long Kesh from December 1942 until February 1944. RAF Turnberry from February...
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    HM Prison Maze (redirect from Long Kesh)
    HM Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as the Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used...
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    disembarked from HMS Stalker on the 19 February 1944 and then moved to RAF Long Kesh on the 20 March 1944. It was equipped with Supermarine Seafire L. III...
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    regroup, from there moving around to stations in Wales (RAF Llanbedr) and Northern Ireland (RAF Long Kesh). During this time, the Governor of Trinidad and Tobago...
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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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  • September 1945 the flight moved to RAF Long Kesh, then it moved back to Sydenham on 3 December 1945. It moved to RAF Aldergrove on 1 December 1946 before...
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    Ireland for the production of components of the aircraft. A hangar at RAF Long Kesh was used for assembly of the aircraft and flight testing was carried...
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    Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2022. "Long Kesh". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2022...
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    interned were held in a detention facility located at RAF Long Kesh military base, later known as Long Kesh Detention Centre and eventually becoming Her Majesty's...
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    operated with Vickers Wellington long-range medium bomber RAF Long Kesh No. 5 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF aircrew training, operated with Bristol...
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  • Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) operating six Westland Scouts from Long Kesh army base. Between November 1975 and March 1976 the Squadron was deployed...
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    relating to Northern Ireland's aviation heritage, located in a hangar of RAF Long Kesh White House, Newtownabbey Newtownabbey Antrim Historic house website...
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    England – not on public display. XT864 — Ulster Aviation Society, Maze-Long Kesh, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. XV426 — City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich...
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  • 1970 RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland (NI) 15 Jun – 17 Oct 73 A small Scout and Sioux detachment stood-up for a four-month tour at Long Kesh in NI...
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  • and re-equipment with Wildcat VI aircraft at RNAS Ballyhalbert and RAF Long Kesh, Northern Ireland while Searcher was refitted at a shipyard on the River...
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  • included RAF Signals Command, which was later reduced to group status and incorporated into RAF Strike Command. Nos 26 and No. 60 Group RAF were established...
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  • 363 residents. Maze is the site of HM Prison Maze, formerly a RAF station at Long Kesh. The prison was the main internment centre in Northern Ireland...
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    TA Centre), Sussex Bulldog T.1 XX637 at Ulster Aviation Society, Maze Long Kesh, Lisburn, Northern Ireland (Current markings are a XX530 tribute) Data...
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  • Stations: RAF Waddington – 34 EAW (ISTAR) RAF Brize Norton – 38 EAW (Air Transport) RAF Coningsby – 121 EAW (Fighter) RAF Leeming – 135 EAW RAF Marham –...
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  • – 5 August 1944 Bolling Field, District of Columbia, c. 4 July 1942 RAF Long Kesh (Station 232), Northern Ireland, 12 September 1942 – November 1942 Kirkassock...
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    on display at the Ulster Aviation Society in Long Kesh, Northern Ireland XX306 Hawk T1A on the gate at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, England XX308 Hawk T1A...
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    a British jet trainer aircraft that was in use with the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1955 to 1993. It was originally developed by Hunting Percival from...
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    Ulster Aviation Society, Long Kesh, Maze, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Buccaneer S2B, XV865, in the markings of No. 208 Squadron RAF at the Imperial War Museum...
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