Royal Air Force Roborough or more simply RAF Roborough was a Royal Air Force station in Roborough located 3.8 miles (6.1 km) north of Plymouth, Devon...
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Roborough may refer to: Roborough, South Hams, near Plymouth Roborough Hundred, a former administrative division RAF Roborough, a former Royal Air Force...
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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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2007, p. 105. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
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Roborough is a village in the South Hams of Devon, England. Former home of Plymouth City Airport (and formerly to RAF Roborough), Roborough lies just...
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including 667 Sqn. at RAF Gosport, 679 Sqn. at RAF Ipswich and 691 Sqn. at RAF Roborough. Between March and July 1945 all of the RAF's Barracudas were withdrawn...
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RAF Roborough as well as other services of the armed forces. Throughout the majority of the Second World War the airport was known as RAF Roborough and...
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the RAF Fighter Command order of battle at 15 September 1940, during the Battle of Britain. RAF Fighter Command Headquarters was located at RAF Bentley...
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Battle of Britain, the defence of the UK's airspace was divided up within RAF Fighter Command into four Groups, each comprising several airfields and squadrons...
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Unit RAF operated with Bristol Beaufighter multirole aircraft and Lockheed Hudson light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft RAF Roborough No. 19...
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List of Royal Air Force aircraft independent flights (redirect from No. 403 (Fleet Fighter) Flight RAF)
RAF Air Sea Rescue Flight RAF, Roborough (1941) Air Sea Rescue Flight RAF, Shoreham/Friston/Shoreham (1941) became 'C' Flight, No. 277 Squadron RAF Air...
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Gladiator was in operational service with 247 Squadron, stationed at RAF Roborough, Devon during the Battle of Britain. Although no combat sorties took...
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Oxfords. No. 15 Group Communication Flight was formed at RAF Roborough on 13 June 1939, it moved to RAF Hooton Park on 1 February 1941 and was disbanded on...
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(China-British) Squadron RAF at RNAS Roborough equipped with Gloster Gladiator No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAF at RAF Aston Down equipped with Supermarine...
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into RAF Northern Ireland. No. 15 Group Communications Flight RAF (15 GCF) formed at RAF Roborough located in Devon, on 13 June 1939, it moved to RAF Hooton...
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RAF was an Anti-aircraft cooperation squadron of the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1949. The squadron was formed on 1 December 1943 at RNAS Roborough from...
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Devon. It is located at the southern end of the former RAF Harrowbeer airfield on Roborough Down, next to the border with the A386. This location created...
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List of Reserve flying schools (redirect from No. 1 Reserve Flying School RAF)
103. Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 224. Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6. Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007)...
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Minehead and Bridgwater. The battalion was also assigned to protect RAF Roborough, just outside of Plymouth, and was provided with Armadillo armoured...
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National Park. Roborough Rock is a tor-like igneous rock outcrop immediately south-west of the airfield (officially called 'Udal Tor') on Roborough Down, next...
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HM Prison Ford (redirect from RAF Ford)
brief spell at RAF West Freugh, located in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, before returning during March, then moving onto RNAS Roborough (HMS Drake II)...
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Royal Air Force Pengam Moors, or more simply RAF Pengam Moors, (or also known as RAF Cardiff), is a former Royal Air Force station and maintenance unit...
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Formed from the Shetland Fighter Flight No. 247 Squadron was reformed at Roborough (Plymouth) on 1 August 1940, flying Gloster Gladiator biplanes. Tasked...
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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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Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a prominent mass of stone close to the Plymouth road on the fringe of nearby Roborough Down, near the southern...
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Royal Air Force (RAF) who currently provide elementary flying training (EFT) with the Grob Tutor T1, presently based at RAF Wittering, an RAF airbase in Cambridgeshire...
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Airwork Services (section RAF training)
providing a variety of defence support services to the Royal Air Force (RAF), Fleet Air Arm and overseas air forces, as well as having played an important...
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Guinness's boarding-school education at Pembroke Lodge, in Southbourne, and Roborough, in Eastbourne. Geddes—who with a "round face and sticking-out ears" bore...
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of the British Army, to form an independent service, the Royal Air Force (RAF). Currently the abbreviation RNAS stands for "Royal Naval Air Station", and...
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destroyers at sea) Lynx HMA.8 trials unit (formed in September 1989) Roborough: Flying Grading Flight (Chipmunk T.10) The Commandant General Royal Marines...
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