Royal Air Force Leicester East, more commonly known as RAF Leicester East (ICAO: EGBG), is a former Royal Air Force station, near the village of Stoughton...

The airfield was constructed in 1942 as part of the former RAF station, RAF Leicester East. The facility was named Stoughton Aerodrome prior to 1974....

1668 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF arriving from RAF Leicester East, which stayed until 5 January 1948 when it moved to RAF Dishforth. No. 1331 Heavy Transport...

No.620 Squadron equipped with the Short Stirling Mk.IV moved from RAF Leicester East, soon to be accompanied on 25 March by No. 190 Squadron also operating...

aircraft was on a routine daytime flight with two other aircraft, leaving RAF Scampton near Lincoln at about 10:15 and heading to the US Air Force base...

The unit was disbanded at RAF Leicester East during October 1944. No. 1429 (Czechoslovak Operational Training) Flight RAF using Wellington IIIs and Westland...

January 1948 to become 240 OCU. No. 107 OTU 107 OTU was formed at RAF Leicester East on 3 May 1944 and primarily used Douglas Dakota's to train crews....

an MBA from the University of Leicester. After his RAF training, he was based at RAF Chivenor, RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Laarbruch. He became a staff pilot...

primarily served by East Midlands Airport, which lies between Derby, Leicester and Nottingham. The main cities in the region are Derby, Leicester, Lincoln and...

No. 107 (Transport) Operational Training Unit RAF (107 OTU) Formed in May 1944 at RAF Leicester East to train transport and glider tug crews using the...

This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...

stay. The squadron left on 18 November 1943 moving to RAF Leicester East No. 513 Squadron RAF formed at Witchford on 15 September 1943 with the Stirling...

Group RAF. The squadron flew 61 operations while part of Bomber Command, losing 17 Stirlings in the process. The squadron moved to RAF Leicester East on...

Conversion Unit RAF GPTF with the Warwick RAF Leicester East = No. 1333 (Transport Support) Conversion Unit RAF with the Warwick RAF Netheravon = Air...

miles (23 km)); Leicester is 20 miles (32 km) to the south and Lincoln 43 miles (69 km) northeast. It serves the majority of the East Midlands region...

operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...

squadron was re-formed again five days later, on 5 January 1944 at RAF Leicester East as an airborne support unit flying the Short Stirling. It became part...

Bruntingthorpe or more simply RAF Bruntingthorpe is a former Royal Air Force station located 4.2 miles (6.8 km) north east of Lutterworth, Leicestershire...

to RAF Witchford, Cambridgeshire, as part of No. 3 Group and was re-equipped with Mk. III Stirling bombers. They moved again to RAF Leicester East later...

motorway development. Between Leicester and Lincoln the road follows the course of the Roman Fosse Way, but between Bath and Leicester, two cities also linked...

Murder is Announced between 2015 and 2016. Cornwell's father served in the RAF and she grew up in Britain, where she attended a convent school, with Penelope...

Force Digby otherwise known as RAF Digby is a Royal Air Force station located near Scopwick and 11.6 mi (18.7 km) south east of Lincoln, in Lincolnshire...

miles (1.8 km) north east of Cottesmore, Rutland, England. The barracks opened in 2012, at the site of former RAF Cottesmore. RAF Cottesmore opened in...

After RAF Strike Command was formed in 1968, RAF Wittering became "The Home of the Harrier". Since the UK withdrew its Harrier jump jets in 2010, RAF Wittering...

during his RAF career. Loader was selected as the Conservative candidate on 26 May 2012. He was opposed by Labour's Sarah Russell, Leicester deputy mayor...

Delve, Ken (1985). The Winged Bomb: History of 39 Squadron RAF. Earl Shilton, Leicester, UK: Midland Counties Publications. ISBN 0-904597-56-3. Franks...

military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom...

and experimental duties with MAEE. Carnegie joined the Singapore-based RAF Far East Flight in May 1927 as captain of Supermarine Southampton II flying boat...

from studios at the BBC's East Midlands broadcasting centre in Nottingham with district newsrooms based in Derby and Leicester. The main transmitter for...

Force Bellasize, also known as RAF Bellasize, was a former RAF airfield in the hamlet of Bellasize, near Gilberdyke, East Riding of Yorkshire, England....