RAF Iceland is a former Royal Air Force command which controlled RAF units within Iceland. The command was operational between July 1941 and July 1945...
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This is a list of airports in Iceland. There are no railways in Iceland. Driving from Reykjavík to Akureyri takes 4–5 hours compared to 45 minutes flight...
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The Occupation of Iceland during World War II began with a British invasion intent on occupying and denying Iceland to Germany. The military operation...
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Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
(Operation Azotize), Black Sea (Operation Biloxi), and Iceland (Icelandic Air Policing). The RAF has seven front-line Typhoon squadrons, plus an Operational...
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and Icelandic governments, the RAF was scheduled to undertake an air policing deployment to Iceland in 2019. Fighter aircraft deployed to Iceland are...
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List of Royal Air Force commands (redirect from List of RAF commands)
in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Training Command were formed. Since that time the RAF has made...
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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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Dunbeath air crash (redirect from Andrew Jack (RAF Sergeant))
mission to RAF Reykjavik, specifically to fly Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Iceland. The aircraft took off from a seaplane base at RAF Invergordon...
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Kaldadarnes or more simply RAF Kaldadarnes is a former Royal Air Force station at Kaldaðarnes, near the town of Selfoss, Iceland. The station was built in...
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Naval Air Station Keflavik (redirect from U.S. Naval Facility Keflavik, Iceland)
Operations Group, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom Naval Air Station Keflavik was the host command for all U.S. defense activities in Iceland. The major commands...
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Air Force Reykjavik or more simply RAF Reykjavik is a former Royal Air Force station, at Reykjavík Airport, Iceland. The station was built in 1940 by the...
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Royal Air Force Valley or more simply RAF Valley (Welsh: Llu Awyr Brenhinol Y Fali) (IATA: VLY, ICAO: EGOV) is a Royal Air Force station on the island...
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Akureyri (redirect from Akureyri, Iceland)
Akureyri (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈaːkʏrˌeiːrɪ], locally [ˈaːkʰʏrˌeiːrɪ] ) is a town in northern Iceland, the country's fifth most populous municipality...
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Vágar Airport (redirect from RAF Vágar)
first built Reykjavík Airport in Iceland in 1940, then known as RAF Reykjavik, following the British Occupation of Iceland. After the war, Vágar airfield...
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the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2014. "RAF deploys Typhoons to Iceland | Jane's 360". www.janes.com. Retrieved 20 November 2019. "1...
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Establishing the Iceland Base Command Historical buildings and sites in Iceland AFHRA Document 00240544 AFHRA Document 00097383 AFHRA Document 00007547 RAF Valley...
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Prince George, Duke of Kent (section RAF career)
and 14 others took off in a RAF Short Sunderland flying boat W4026 from Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty, to fly to Iceland on non-operational duties. The...
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more simply RAF Fairford (IATA: FFD, ICAO: EGVA) is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. While being an RAF station, Fairford...
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Eurofighter Typhoon (redirect from RAF Typhoons)
mission in Iceland". Airforce Technology. Retrieved 25 April 2024. "RAF Typhoons have begun a NATO Air Policing mission in Lithuania". raf.mod.uk. Royal...
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The British invasion of Iceland (codenamed Operation Fork) by the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and Royal Marines occurred on 10 May 1940, during World...
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Lumpur. In the RAF, Wigglesworth reached the rank of air commodore. By some accounts he was the original of Biggles. He served in Iceland during the Second...
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Reykjavík Airport (category Civilian airports with RAF origins)
airport, then named RAF Reykjavik, from March 1941. On 6 July 1946, the British handed the airport operation over to the Icelandic government and since...
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85th Group (redirect from Air Forces Iceland)
Europe at Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland, assigned as a unit of the 48th Fighter Wing whose home station is at RAF Lakenheath, UK. It was inactivated...
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Royal Air Force Croughton or more simply RAF Croughton is a Royal Air Force station which is currently a United States Air Force communications station...
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novel, Red Storm Rising, as a base for RAF operations over the North Atlantic and against Soviet-held Iceland. Later the displaced carrier air wing from...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
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 1959) is an Italian singer-songwriter who is better known as simply Raf. Riefoli lived the few first years of the 1980s in London, before starting...
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List of wings of the Royal Air Force (redirect from No. 72 (Bomber) Wing RAF)
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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Rescue Force was established in 1986 from the helicopter elements of the RAF Marine Branch which was disbanded that year. The Force supported search and...
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Red Arrows (redirect from RAF Red Arrows Display Team)
Aerobatic Team, is the aerobatics display team of the Royal Air Force (RAF) based at RAF Waddington. The team was formed in late 1964 as an all-Royal Air Force...
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