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    Royal Air Force Upper Heyford or more simply RAF Upper Heyford is a former Royal Air Force station located 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Bicester near the...
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    parish on the south. In the north the boundary crosses the former RAF Upper Heyford airfield, following the course of former field boundaries. The Portway...
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    During November 1933, the first Heyfords entered service, being initially flown by No. 99 Squadron at RAF Upper Heyford; before the end of 1936, Bomber...
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  • Upper Heyford may refer to: Upper Heyford, Northamptonshire Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    up to the runways. In June 1940 the station became a satellite for RAF Upper Heyford for No. 16 Operational Training Unit (No. 16 OTU) to provide the unit...
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    sought. Four RAF airfields were selected to receive SAC units: RAF Brize Norton, RAF Fairford, RAF Greenham Common and RAF Upper Heyford. In 1948 the...
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    for the Strategic Air Command 7th Air Division (AD), stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It was upgraded to wing status...
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  • from the North Sea. New bases were developed at RAF Brize Norton, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Fairford and RAF Greenham Common were therefore developed as bases...
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    and a move further west, behind RAF fighter forces, to RAF Greenham Common, RAF Brize Norton, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Fairford. The airfield came under...
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    began to move further west, behind RAF fighter forces, to Brize Norton, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Upper Heyford, and RAF Fairford. As with the other stations...
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    Squadron RAF Regiment, RAF Brize Norton, (Air Defence, 12x Rapier launch stations, defending RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Fairford) No. 20 Squadron RAF Regiment...
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    at RAF Alconbury and the 66th at RAF Upper Heyford with between them about 100 RF-101s and RF-4Cs, along with the 513th Troop Carrier Wing at RAF Mildenhall...
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    fighter combat mission in history. The round-trip flight between RAF Lakenheath/RAF Upper Heyford, United Kingdom and Libya of 6,400 miles (10,300 km) spanned...
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    1 (Fighter) Squadron, Canadian Air Force, formed with Dolphins at RAF Upper Heyford. The unit became operational shortly after the Armistice. In October...
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    shortly after war was declared, both the Finningley squadrons moved to RAF Upper Heyford to form one of these organisations. Finningley was to continue in...
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  • Training Unit RAF (16 OTU) was a training unit of the Royal Air Force. It was formed at RAF Upper Heyford on 8 April 1940 from the No. 4 Group RAF Pool, which...
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    established at RAF Upper Heyford as part of congressional budget cutbacks and a USAFE-wide base realignment and consolidation of units. RAF Wethersfield...
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    in October 1985 by an exercise in which the 20th TFW stationed at RAF Upper Heyford airbase in the UK, which was equipped with F-111E Aardvarks, received...
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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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    camouflage were used by the USAF Police Tactical Neutralisation Teams at RAF Upper Heyford as a temporary stand-in for the ERDL/M81 Woodland fatigues. The pattern...
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  • Strand were used. The "RAF Baywaters" scenes were filmed at the now defunct RAF Upper Heyford as a take on the real life RAF Bentwaters. Filming also...
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    As part of the re-armament plan No. 226 Squadron was reformed at RAF Upper Heyford, as a light bomber squadron, on 15 March 1937, flying Fairey Battle...
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  • author. Portions of the film were shot on location at the former RAF Upper Heyford site in the former Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) areas and the Northern...
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    aircraft. The wing's 42d Electronic Combat Squadron, stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, flew EF-111A Raven aircraft under the operational control of the...
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  • 1925 by twin-engined Handley Page Hyderabads, the squadron moving to RAF Upper Heyford in December 1927. In 1929, it again switched to new aircraft when...
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  • 58 Squadron RAF which was reformed there on 1 April 1924. The squadron flew the Vimy and the Virginia before moving to RAF Upper Heyford on 13 January...
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    late 1990s as a communications station linked to the since-closed RAF Upper Heyford. Other locations around Eglin AFB and Fort Walton also served as secondary...
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  • former RAF Upper Heyford airfield and Heyford Park School. It is bordered by the civil parishes of Somerton, Ardley, Middleton Stoney, Lower Heyford and...
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  • The Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force, and its successor body the Air Force Global Strike Command, operate or formerly operated many...
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  • Squadron RAF Regiment — air defence, Rapier launch stations, defending RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Fairford RAF Coltishall No. 6 Squadron RAF — tactical...
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