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    Royal Air Force Northolt or more simply RAF Northolt (IATA: NHT, ICAO: EGWU) is a Royal Air Force station in South Ruislip, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2...
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    battle had begun. No. 303 Squadron RAF was formed in July 1940 in Blackpool, England before deployment to RAF Northolt on 2 August as part of an agreement...
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    early RAF airfields were named after the nearest railway station; in this case Northolt Junction, (now South Ruislip), so it became RAF Northolt. WW1 also...
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    area. Many of its remaining military units were relocated to nearby RAF Northolt the following day. Plans for redevelopment, consisting of a mixture of...
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    Air Force (RAF). No.32 is a current flying squadron which operates in the VIP and general air transport roles. It is based at RAF Northolt in Greater...
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    Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
    stations: RAF Coningsby, RAF Marham and RAF Lossiemouth (Air Combat) RAF Waddington (ISTAR) RAF Brize Norton and RAF Northolt (Air Transport) RAF Benson...
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    The Royal Air Force station, RAF Northolt, is situated in South Ruislip near the A40 and the tube station. Most early RAF airfields were named after the...
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    operations on 30 May 2008, with all units relocating to new accommodation at RAF Northolt, a few miles away. The station incorporated Bentley Priory, which was...
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    to London's RAF Northolt. The Avro York of the 99 Squadron, with serial number MW248, was on a flight from RAF Luqa in Malta to RAF Northolt. The aircraft...
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  • Team (RAF Lossiemouth) RAF Valley Mountain Rescue Team (RAF Valley) RAF Music Services (RAF Northolt) Headquarters RAF Music Services Band of the RAF College...
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    squadron in January 1938. Still based at RAF Northolt at the outbreak of war, No. 111 (Fighter) Squadron relocated to RAF Acklington, Northumberland, in October...
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    Team (RAF Lossiemouth) RAF Valley Mountain Rescue Team (RAF Valley) RAF Music Services (RAF Northolt) Headquarters RAF Music Services Band of the RAF College...
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    (based at RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire) 51 Squadron (based at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray) 63 Squadron (King's Colour Squadron) (based at RAF Northolt, Middlesex)...
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    June 2017. "RAF Northolt – Who is based here?". RAF.MoD.uk. Royal Air Force. Retrieved 24 June 2017. "RAF Odiham - Stn Organisation". RAF.MoD.uk. Royal...
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  • to RAF Northolt, the station was used by the United States Air Force's Third Air Force from 1949 until 1972, when the headquarters were moved to RAF Mildenhall...
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    royal family, two Westland Wapitis, were delivered to No. 24 Squadron at RAF Northolt in April 1928. Although the Royal Air Force maintained at least one of...
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    the Bearer Party and Guard of Honour when an RAF plane delivered Queen Elizabeth II's coffin to RAF Northolt at London from Scotland following her death...
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    the London boroughs, due to a combination of rural land in the north, RAF Northolt Aerodrome, and Heathrow Airport. The borough was created in 1965 under...
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    one of the country's older Royal Air Force stations, predated only by RAF Northolt, which is the oldest and predates the Royal Air Force by three years...
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  • Service. This is a list of RAF aircraft, including all currently active and retired types listed in alphabetic order by their RAF type name. For just those...
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    VC10 RAF Coningsby No. 228 Operational Conversion Unit RAF - Phantom RAF Lyneham No. 216 Squadron RAF - Comet RAF Northolt No. 32 Squadron RAF - Andover...
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  • in 2008. The MT section of the Queen's Colour Squadron relocated to RAF Northolt. Plans for 773 homes, a nursing home, shops and offices were approved...
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  • Special Duty Flight RAF, Malta (1941–42) Special Duty Flight RAF, Northolt (1942) became No. 515 Squadron RAF Special Duty Flight RAF, Old Sarum/Netheravon/Boscombe...
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    musical support to the Royal Air Force. Based at RAF Northolt (previously at RAF Uxbridge) and RAF Cranwell, it forms the central administration of one...
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    Barbados. RAF Gatow was also used as a civilian airport for a limited time. In 1946, British European Airways (BEA) inaugurated an RAF Northolt – Hamburg...
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    Samaritan operated by the United States Air Force on a flight from Munich to RAF Northolt crashed shortly after take-off from Munich-Riem Airport, due to fuel...
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    death rate in severe trauma by 30–40%. The helicopters are hangared at RAF Northolt, but operate during the day from their base at the Royal London Hospital...
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    (Krakowski) Squadron was the first to arrive, on 12 December 1941, from RAF Northolt before leaving on 1 April 1942. Squadrons were rotated regularly. Several...
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    and Piccadilly line are Ruislip and Ruislip Manor. The station serves RAF Northolt. The tracks through the station were laid by part of the Great Western...
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    placed in 1922. In May 1924, the first of the RAF's Siskin IIIs were delivered to No. 41 Squadron at RAF Northolt. Eleven squadrons would operate the type...
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