Royal Air Force Manby or more simply RAF Manby is a former Royal Air Force station located in Lincolnshire, England The following units were here at some...
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other is the 6th Skegness. RAF Manby was situated near the village between 1938 and 1974. Houses in Manby were built for RAF personnel, with village streets...
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Central Flying School at RAF Brize Norton, and other roles of the school were transferred to the RAF Flying College at RAF Manby. The unit was formally...
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schools including No. 1 Air Armament School RAF, at RAF Manby, and the Central Gunnery School RAF, at RAF Sutton Bridge. On 7 July 1942, the Air Gunners...
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Gibson's bomb aimer, Squadron Leader Richardson, a bombing instructor from RAF Manby, requested twelve practice runs over the target, but they still failed...
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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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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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Hemswell and RAF Manby. The following units were also here at some point: No. 55 Base RAF (April 1944 - November 1945) No. 93 Maintenance Unit RAF (? - December...
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Refresher Flying from RAF Manby. In November 1974 it took over another unit when the RN Elementary Flying Training School arrived from RAF Church Fenton, but...
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at RAF Manby Empire Central Flying School 1945–46 at RAF Hullavington Empire Radio School 1947–50 at RAF Debden Radar Research Flight 1951–57 at RAF Wyton...
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undertaking pilot training at RAF Ternhill and gaining his pilot's wings, he trained in armament engineering at RAF Manby in Lincolnshire. He was promoted...
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from RAF Manby at 15:00. RAF planes approached the object and it flew off. 4 April 1957: West Freugh incident – a large object was seen on radar at RAF West...
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RAF White Waltham University of London Air Squadron RAF Woodvale Liverpool University Air Squadron Manchester University Air Squadron RAF Manby RAF College...
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more than an hour off the Cleethorpes coast; it was seen by radar at RAF Manby too. It was a large spherical object with a glass appearance. The Lakenheath-Bentwaters...
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railway station. On 3 June 1987 Panavia Tornado 'ZA366' from RAF Marham crashed near to RAF Manby airfield at 5.07pm. Both pilots ejected. An electoral ward...
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flying life in November 1945 NK136 became an instructional airframe at RAF Manby until scrapped in 1948. Two pre-production airframes were under construction;...
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Post". Louth Museum. Retrieved 3 September 2022. "FREEDOM OF LOUTH FOR RAF MANBY 1965". YouTube. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. "East Midlands...
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landing at RAF Hemswell. 1958 13 November 1958 SX934 of the Royal Air Force Flying College, landing gear collapsed on landing at RAF Manby. 1961 22 March...
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normal three sets. These were located at RAF Catterick, RAF Little Rissington, RAF Manby, RAF Shawbury, and RAF Wittering, and intended as aircraft repair...
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or airfields and those also in Lincolnshire at RAF Scampton. Bawtry Hall, Cranwell, Faldingworth, Manby and North Coates. The site was eventually redeveloped...
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were used by the RAF from 1950 for armament training at the RAF Flying College at RAF Manby. A single aircraft was loaned back to Avro and given the civil...
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then joined the staff of the Empire Air Navigation School at Manby. While stationed at Manby, he flew 'Aries III', a modified Lincoln bomber taking off...
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Commodore, Operations at Headquarters RAF Fighter Command in 1953. He was made Commandant of the RAF Flying College at Manby in 1956, Deputy Air Secretary in...
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Cathcart Wight-Boycott (section RAF career)
1954, when he became a QFI at the RAF Flying College, RAF Manby in Lincolnshire. In April 1955 he was posted to RAF Luqa as senior air staff officer (SASO)...
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No. 104 Squadron RAF from RAF Abu Sueir RAF Shallufa in Egypt. In October he was posted to Empire Air Armament School at RAF Manby as a flying instructor...
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Andrew Humphrey (section RAF career)
Africa in September 1948 and went on to be an instructor at the RAF Flying College at Manby in May 1951. Having been appointed an Officer of the Order of...
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return to England, his final appointment was as Commandant of the RAF College, Manby. Donaldson married Winifred Constant in 1936, and the couple had two...
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Schools. The Reverend Canon John Westland Hanson, Civilian Chaplain, RAF Manby. Jesse Leslie Hardcastle, Controller, National Film Theatre. Farrukh Siyar...
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Michael Lyne (section RAF career)
chief flying instructor at the RAF Flying College at Manby in 1954 and officer commanding, RAF Wildenrath in 1958. He went on to be air attaché in Moscow...
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Gus Walker (section RAF career)
1951 he became Officer Commanding RAF Coningsby and in 1954 he was made Commandant of the RAF Flying College at Manby where he developed flying techniques...
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