Royal Air Force Llandow or more simply RAF Llandow is a former Royal Air Force station situated near the village of Llandow, Vale of Glamorgan, South...
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MOD St Athan (redirect from RAF St Athan)
crew. It was linked to the aircraft storage and maintenance facility at RAF Llandow. During the war a dummy airfield was built using wood and cardboard a...
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airfield that was once home to a World War II RAF station, part of which has now been converted into the Llandow Circuit for motorsports. Next to this is the...
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closed in 1948. The new airfield at Rhoose was urgently needed to relieve RAF Llandow. The latter opened as an Aircraft Storage Unit (A.S.U.) but was then...
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1974 Llandow Circuit began life as an airfield during World War II. RAF Llandow was home to Supermarine Spitfires and part of the Royal Canadian Air...
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No. 1310 Flight RAF is a flight of the Royal Air Force. No. 1310 (Transport) Flight was first formed at RAF Llandow on 10 April 1944, equipped with Avro...
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Flight was first formed on 19 April 1944 (80 years ago) (1944-04-19), at RAF Llandow, south Wales. It originally operated six Avro Ansons to collect and deliver...
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first formed at RAF Llandow on 10 April 1944, equipped with Avro Anson I transport aircraft. The flight was disbanded on 21 July 1944 at RAF Thruxton, absorbed...
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Training Unit at RAF Llandow near Cardiff. His first flight in a Spitfire occurred on 7 August 1941. On 18 August, while still stationed at Llandow, he flew a...
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List of Royal Air Force Maintenance units (redirect from No. 1 Maintenance Unit RAF)
30 May 2012. "RAF Burtonwood". Control Towers. Retrieved 30 May 2012. "RAF Llandow airfield". Control Towers. Retrieved 30 May 2012. "RAF Colerne". Air...
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Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF – Vampire, Beaufighter & Spitfire RAF Llandow No. 4 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF RAF Ringway No. 1951 Air Observation...
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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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service with Airflight Ltd, on a charter flight from Ireland, crashed at RAF Llandow, South Wales, with the resulting death of 80 of its passengers and crew...
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List of anti-aircraft cooperation units of the Royal Air Force (redirect from No. 1 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF)
Royal Air Force. Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flight RAF (1931–36) became Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flight, Indian Air Force...
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from No. 4 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF at RAF Llandow was using the range at RAF Manorbier but suffered engine failure. Carew Cheriton...
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he was posted back to No. 53 Operational Training Unit at RAF Heston and then RAF Llandow. Kent was awarded a Bar to his DFC on 21 October 1941. The...
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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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Auxiliary Air Force on 10 March 1957. Formed at RAF Pengam Moors near Cardiff (the often cited Llandow was not erected yet) as an army co-operation squadron...
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Crew Pool Unit RAF Ferry Training and Despatch Unit RAF Ferry Training Unit RAF Overseas Ferry Unit RAF Service Ferry Pilots Pool RAF Lake 1999, p. 68...
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Unit RAF at RAF Llandow and RAF Rhoose with Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft No. 54 Operational Training Unit RAF at RAF Charterhall and RAF Winfield...
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(PDF). RAF Museum. Ellis 2008, p. 23 Ellis 2008, p. 134 "History and Heritage". Cranfield University. Retrieved 19 June 2019. "Lancaster PA474". RAF. Retrieved...
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Llandow (Wick Road) Halt railway station was a short-lived railway station in South Wales. The halt was opened to serve RAF Llandow after the development...
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when G-AKBY was used for a rugby charter and crashed on approach to RAF Llandow in Wales on 12 March 1950. The month after the disaster the company merged...
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List of Royal Air Force Satellite Landing Grounds (redirect from RAF Slade Farm)
A Satellite Landing Ground (SLG) is a type of British Royal Air Force (RAF) aviation facility that typically consists of an airfield with one or two grass...
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while delivering a Vickers Wellington Mk1C bomber to an RAF Aircraft Storage Unit at RAF Llandow in South Wales. The Le Mans Lagonda M45R ('BPK 202') survives...
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composed of Territorial Army artillery officers and soldiers. It was based at RAF Hooton Park, Cheshire, with detached flights. The RAuxAF was disbanded on...
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No. 663 Squadron (redirect from No. 663 (AOP) Squadron RAF)
The squadron headquarters was at RAF Hooton Park, Wirral, Cheshire with dispersed flights at RAF Ringway, RAF Llandow, South Wales, and Wolverhampton (Pendeford)...
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at RAF Heston in February 1941 to train Spitfire pilots for Fighter Command. In July 1941 it moved to RAF Llandow in Wales, and in May 1943 to RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey...
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Hendon, Hurn, Kemble, Llandow, Lyneham, Melton Mowbray, Pershore, Portreath, Prestwick, St Mawgan and Talbenny No. 45 Group RAF - HQ at Dorval in Canada...
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B4270 B4265 North of Llantwit Major A4222 at Cowbridge passes former RAF Llandow B4271 A4118 near Upper Killay B4295 at Llanrhidian via Pengwern Common...
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