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    Royal Air Force South Cerney or more simply RAF South Cerney is a former Royal Air Force station located in South Cerney near Cirencester in Gloucestershire...
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    South Cerney is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, 3 miles south of Cirencester and close to the border with Wiltshire...
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  • English county of Gloucestershire RAF South Cerney, a former Royal Air Force station located in South Cerney South Cerney Castle, an adulterine castle of...
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    RAF between 27 May 1941 and 30 July 1952 which used the following airfields: RAF South Cerney RAF Aston Down RAF Southrop RAF Fairford RAF Debden RAF...
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  • South Cerney becoming CFS (Basic) by renumbering No. 2 Flying Training School RAF. On 1 November 1954 the school was transferred to No. 81 Group RAF....
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    British Army barracks at South Cerney in Gloucestershire. The barracks were established on the site of the former RAF South Cerney in 1971, when UK (Support)...
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    and the FLS was transferred to RAF Charmy Down on 9 February. The airfield came under the control of RAF South Cerney ten days later and was used for...
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    for use as a relief landing ground for training aircraft from nearby RAF South Cerney. In the Battle of Britain the airfield was used to base detachments...
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    Flying Unit (3 (P)AFU), based at RAF South Cerney, flying Oxfords. In March 1943, No. 1540 Beam Approach Training Flight RAF (1540 BATF) was formed at Lulsgate...
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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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    transport aircraft of No. 46 Group RAF Transport Command. In 1948 the airfield was a satellite of RAF South Cerney, and was used by training aircraft...
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    White was serving with the No3 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit based at RAF South Cerney when she died in a road accident. W.A.A.F.s working on an aircraft...
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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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    entered service with the RAF, the first batch of aircraft were delivered to the Central Flying School (CFS) at RAF South Cerney. The CFS carried out intensive...
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    Ternhill ex-RAF Abingdon ex-RAF South Cerney ex-RAF Bramcote ex-RAF Innsworth ex-RAF Cottesmore ex-RAF Kinloss ex-RAF Leuchars ex-RAF Catterick ex-RAF Leconfield...
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    Training Command, taking charge of No. 23 Group. His command, centered on RAF South Cerney, encompassed seven service flying training schools, the Central Flying...
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  • 23 July 1947, No. 20 FTS at RAF Church Lawford was re-designated No. 2 FTS and on 6 April 1948 it moved to RAF South Cerney in Gloucestershire. It was...
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  • RAF Airspeed Oxfords collide on approach to RAF South Cerney. On 17 June 1941 a RAF Fairey Battle and an Airspeed Oxford collide on approach to RAF Shawbury...
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  • Atlases and Hawker Harts. On 16 August 1937 the school relocated to RAF South Cerney, becoming No. 3 Service Flying Training School on 3 September 1939...
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    site. An airbase, RAF South Cerney in Gloucestershire was chosen, but the RAF refused to relinquish the site. A former airbase, RAF Aldermaston, was then...
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  • appointed as Squadron Commander at No 3 Flying Training School at RAF South Cerney on 25 June 1938 (he was promoted to squadron leader for this appointment)...
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    ever to win the open-class World Gliding Championships, in 1965 at RAF South Cerney, Gloucestershire, piloted by Jan Wróblewski; Edward Makula in a Foka...
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    1926 RAF Spitalgate - from October 1937 RAF South Cerney - from October 1939 Oxenden House, Plantation Road, Leighton Buzzard - from September 1946 RAF Church...
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  • British test pilot. He trained at RAF South Cerney in Gloucestershire, RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire and completed it at RAF Valley in Anglesey North Wales...
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    No. 25 Group RAF is a former Royal Air Force group. It was initially active between 1918 and 1919. It reformed during 1937, remaining active throughout...
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    part of Siddington's boundary with South Cerney, as does the former RAF South Cerney (now the Duke of Gloucester Barracks). Ermin Way (now followed by the...
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  • enter RAF South Cerney enabled the completion of Dunbar's only formal portrait in her WAAC work: Portrait of an Airwoman,(1944), now in the RAF Museum...
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  • instructed until 16 March 1946. Palliser was an instructor at the CFS at RAF South Cerney until October 1946, when he was posted as an instructor to No. 23 Flying...
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  • Joy Lofthouse (category People from South Cerney)
    Joyce Gough, but was always known as Joy, in Cirencester and grew up in South Cerney, both in Gloucestershire. In 1943, 20-year-old Lofthouse and her elder...
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    (3) RAF St Athan (4) RAF St Eval (3) RAF Scampton (4) RAF Shawbury (4) RAF Sealand (3) RAF Silloth (3) RAF South Cerney (3) RAF Tern Hill (4) RAF Thornaby...
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