• RAF Kalafrana was a seaplane operations centre on the southernmost tip of Malta between 1917 and 1946 when it was transferred to the Royal Navy. It played...
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  • Flight RAF Seaplane Rescue Flight RAF, Kalafrana (1941) Secret Intelligence Service Flight RAF (-1939) became Heston Flight RAF Security Flight RAF, Ismailia...
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    December 1936, Ospreys were being deployed by 701 Squadron based at RAF Kalafrana in the anti-submarine and anti-piracy role. The Osprey was also sold...
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    southeastern part of Malta, on the site of the former seaplane base RAF Kalafrana. Established in 1988, Malta Freeport was the first transshipment hub...
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    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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    fully equipped with Short Singapore Mk.IIIs and it was transferred to RAF Kalafrana, Malta in September 1937 for three months. In December 1938, No 209...
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    squadron has been formed a total of four times. The squadron was formed at RAF Kalafrana, Malta on 27 September 1918 from Nos. 360, 361, 362 and 363 Flights...
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    control of Great Britain. During the British period, Fort Benghisa, RAF Kalafrana and RAF Hal Far were built in Birżebbuġa. Churches tell part of the history...
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    During 1937 the Singapores of 209 Squadron and 210 Squadron moved from RAF Kalafrana in Malta to Algeria as part of an international effort to prevent gun...
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    Storage Units (ASU)s. List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons List of RAF Regiment units List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons List of Army Air...
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  • No. 228 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force active at various times between 1918 and 1964. It spent the greatest part of its existence...
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    four-engine Short Sunderland L5807, belonging to No. 228 Squadron at RAF Kalafrana on 27 April. Müncheberg led his 7. Staffel in the attack, destroying...
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    202 Squadron RAF at Kalafrana, Malta, replacing Supermarine Scapas, and 228 Squadron RAF at Pembroke Dock. In 1937–1938 204 Squadron RAF used five Londons...
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  • 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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    base of RAF Kalafrana and the airfield at Marsa were built. More airfields were built in the interwar period and the Second World War, including RAF Hal Far...
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    had made an inspection tour of the airfields and the main workshops at Kalafrana. The state of the island was worse than he expected. The slackening of...
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  • 5 Armament Training Establishment at RAF Penrhos. The following year he was posted overseas to RAF Kalafrana seaplane base on Malta where he was promoted...
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    impossible position. Lord Gort flew from Gibraltar and met Dobbie at RAF Kalafrana a seaplane base in the south-east of Malta, during an air raid, late...
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    October 1957. Formed on 15 July 1936 as No. 701 (Catapult) Flight FAA at RAF Kalafrana, Malta by re-designating No. 444 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight FAA;...
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    throughout the Second World War, being appointed Commanding Officer of RAF Kalafrana, Malta, on 5 January 1941. He retired on 24 June 1945, and became the...
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    in 1979. No. 267 Squadron RAF and No. 268 Squadron RAF, both with seaplanes, were formed at RAF Kalafrana in August 1918. RAF Mediterranean had been based...
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    as Officer Commanding of the RAF Base at Kalafrana, home of No. 202 (Flying Boat) Squadron, until taking command of RAF Hal Far on 16 April 1934. In June...
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    (Catapult) Flight, out of 447 (Catapult) Flight in 1936. It was based at RAF Kalafrana, Malta, and tasked with supporting ships of the Mediterranean Fleet...
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    Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He is credited with the destruction of at least 22 aircraft. Born in Ceylon, Lovell joined the RAF in 1937,...
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    Waters (P2614) shot down an SM.79 bomber five miles (eight kilometers) off Kalafrana, but he was soon attacked in turn by the escorting Falchi, who badly shot...
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  • pilots. Flown aboard a Short Sunderland flying boat, they arrived at Kalafrana on 16 February and were posted to No. 185 Squadron, based at Takali and...
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  • Europe and in support of the D-Day landings. The squadron was formed at Kalafrana, Malta in August 1918 as an anti-submarine warfare patrol unit, flying...
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    Wing commander and head of the Sandfly fever commission, stationed at Kalafrana, Malta. He was the first to study and breed sandfly in captivity; his...
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  • bomber crashed near Luqa. Four days later, while flying a sortie over Kalafrana, he destroyed a further Ju 88. Smith shot down a Savoia-Marchetti SM.79...
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    Royal New Zealand Air Force Station Hobsonville 1940–43 Royal Air Force Kalafrana (1940) RN Air Section Gibraltar (1940-43) Royal Air Force Seletar (1940-41)...
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