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    No. 9 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (9 (C)OTU), was a training unit of the Royal Air Force, within No. 17 Group RAF, which was part of RAF Coastal...
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  • No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (1 (C)OTU) The Unit was formed in 1940 as part of RAF Coastal Command at RAF Silloth for training aircrew...
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    Lossiemouth was transferred to No. 17 Group of RAF Coastal Command, with the arrival of No. 111 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit from the Bahamas shortly...
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  • following units were posted here at some point: No. 1 (Coastal) Engine Control Demonstration Unit RAF No. 6 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF No. 9 (Coastal)...
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    transferred to No. 4 Group on 27 May 1940, at the time part of RAF Bomber Command. At the same time No. 19 Operational Training unit (No. 19 OTU) was formed...
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  • ISBN 0-86111-100-1. Operational Record Book No 751 Signals Unit (SU), Cape Greco; Terry O'Reilly (2015). The Dustbin Bandits: A Story of RAF 751 Signals Unit in Cyprus...
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  • AH-64E Apache and Wildcat AH1. Formerly the Rotary Wing Operational Evaluation and Training Unit, the highly experienced helicopter aircrew will also ensure...
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  • RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...
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    No. 3 Group RAF (3 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group first active in 1918, again between 1923 and 1926, then as part of RAF Bomber Command from...
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    has operated the BAE Hawk T2 from RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. The squadron provides weapons and tactics training for student pilots after they have...
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    Gladiator No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAF at RAF Aston Down equipped with Supermarine Spitfire and Bristol Blenheim No. 6 Operational Training Unit RAF at...
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    first prime minister of the Bahamas. In August 1942, No. 111 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF was established at Nassau Airport to train general...
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    No. 13 Operational Training Unit at RAF Bicester and RAF Finmere with Mosquito & Boston No. 41 Operational Training Unit at RAF Hawarden and RAF Poulton...
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  • various roles. Between 1992 and 2010, it was based at RAF Kinloss as the Operational Conversion Unit for the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2, until the retirement...
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    and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operational Conversion Unit, and is now the Advanced Air ISTAR Academy, responsible for training all RAF crews assigned to the MQ-9A...
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  • Buckinghamshire. No. 2 Group was originally formed as No. 2 (Training) Group on 1 April 1918 at Oxford. The unit was disbanded at RAF Uxbridge on 31 March...
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    Canberra PR.7, PR.9 and T.4 from RAF Marham, Norfolk, as No. 39 (1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit) Squadron between July 1992 and July 2006. No. 39 Squadron...
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  • crews from No. 51 Squadron trained alongside the United States Air Force on the RC-135W Rivet Joint, which was being acquired by the RAF under the Airseeker...
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  • whilst No. 487 Flight flew Sopwith Camels on escort duties. At the end of World War I, the squadron was retained as one of the few RAF coastal units. In...
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  • from its base at RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales. Its role is to provide fast jet aircrew to the Operational Conversion Units for the RAF's jet attack aircraft...
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    the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 at its present home base of RAF Lossiemouth on 1 April 2019. No. 9 Squadron was formed on 8 December 1914 at Saint-Omer in...
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    changed, to avoid confusion with RAF units. * = RAAF/RCAF unit that was not under RAF operational control. Transport Command RAF applied the following three...
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    for RAF Upper Heyford for No. 16 Operational Training Unit (No. 16 OTU) to provide the unit with extra airfield space for night-flying training. Much...
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    Atomics MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle from RAF Waddington since reforming on 26 October 2012. The unit first formed as part of the Royal Flying Corps...
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    intended replacement in RAF service was the Eurofighter Typhoon. The RAF announced that No. 6 Squadron was to be the fourth operational front-line squadron...
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    Benson, it serves as the RAF's Operational Conversion Unit for the Westland Puma HC2 and Boeing Chinook HC5/6/6A helicopters. No. 28 Squadron of the Royal...
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    as No. VIII Squadron) of the Royal Air Force last operated the Boeing E-3D Sentry AEW1 (AWACS) from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. As of 2020, the RAF AWACS...
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    No. 5 Group RAF (5 Gp) was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 – 1945) by AVM Sir Ralph...
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    moved to RAF Kinloss and were replaced by the Maritime Operational Training Unit. In 1956, the last Lancaster in RAF operational service left RAF St Mawgan...
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  • military operations overseas. No. 99 was a bomber squadron in both World War I and World War II. The squadron was the first RAF unit to receive the Avro Aldershot...
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