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    finally leaving in 1956. The RAF airfields at Gan and Masirah took over RAF Far East Air Force staging duties from Mauripur and Habbaniya (which became...
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  • and sometimes hostile nations. RAF Mauripur, to the west of Karachi, by then a Pakistan Air Force station, had RAF personnel attached for staging airfield...
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    2 November 2017. Ryavec 1995, p. 260. "Association of RAF Mauripur". Association of RAF Mauripur. Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. "Situation...
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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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    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...
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  • the starving population in the jungle areas. The squadron disbanded at Mauripur, Sindh, British India (Now Pakistan Air Force Base Masroor) on 21 December...
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  • Air Force Communication Wing RAF, was established on 31 March 1945, and disbanded only three and a half months later at RAF Buckeburg on 15 July 1945, by...
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    squadron became fully Dakota equipped by April 1945, but disbanded at RAF Mauripur on 1 October 1946. Delve 1994, p. 68. Delve 1994, pp. 77, 84. Rawlings...
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    the Squadron was disbanded in Java and reformed at PAF Base Masroor, Mauripur Karachi, at that time in British India. At the end of 1947 it was again...
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    for British military flights to the Far East and Australia, replacing RAF Mauripur in Pakistan which had been relinquished in 1956. In 1957, however, the...
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  • the disease by spending three years in the dry climate of Pakistan at RAF Mauripur where his father was posted. After a return to England, he was educated...
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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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    Sabres during an aerial display on 2 February 1958 at Mauripur. The team inspired the British RAF's Black Arrows which went on to beat the record with 22...
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    and No. 11 Squadron PAF, Officer Commanding Flying Wing Mauripur, Commander PAF Station Mauripur, Director of Operations AHQ (PAF), Chief Inspector of Flight...
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    Island. 8 February 1945: An RAF York was damaged beyond repair during a landing accident at Mauripur, India. 3 November 1945: RAF York C.1 MW120 slid off...
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  • The former Royal Air Force Far East Air Force, more simply known as RAF Far East Air Force, was the Command organisation that controlled all Royal Air...
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  • June 1948, a detachment of the squadron provided a guard of honour at Mauripur for Governor-General Muhammad Ali Jinnah on his arrival from Quetta. On...
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    New Zealand. On 24 May 1967, while approaching runway 27 at PAF Station Mauripur in his B-57 Canberra at a low altitude, a vulture impacted his canopy and...
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  • showroom in Bedford where he learned Japanese. He was then posted via RAF Mauripur to serve in Burma with 164 S.W., 368 W.U. and 164(S) Wing. After serving...
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  • CPAL named Empress of Hawaii, crashed during takeoff from Karachi's Mauripur RAF Station during its delivery flight at 03:35 at 30 m (98 feet) elevation...
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    India, 10 Sabres of the squadron were deployed at PAF Base Sargodha from Mauripur. After Indian forces invaded Pakistan in an attempt to halt the Pakistani...
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    for the PAF. No. 15 Squadron was established on 5 June 1956 at PAF Base Mauripur as a tactical attack squadron. On 10 April 1959, while most of Pakistan...
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    followed by the Korangi industrial Area street, Shahrah-e-Orangi and Mauripur Road," commented the head of RTIR & PC Dr Juma Khan. Wikimedia Commons...
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  • in February 1958. The record required the team to train pilots from other RAF squadrons. The team initially wanted to loop 20 aircraft, but additional...
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  • and Ser Amadia in Iraq; Sharjah and Bahrain lower down the Gulf; and Mauripur in Pakistan (Lee FFME 94-95). No. 185 Squadron arrived at Habbaniya on...
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  • "ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1A CF-CUN Karachi-Mauripur RAF Station". aviation-safety.net. Aerodynamic Design Of Transport Aircraft...
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  • no casualties. On 17 May 1946, Avro Lancastrian I G-AGMH landed hard at Mauripur AFB, Pakistan; no casualties. On 15 August 1946, Avro Lancastrian I G-AGLU...
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  • aircraft until 1955, when it was retired. It remained parked at Karachi's Mauripur Airbase and then at a Pakistan Air Force Base in Peshawar. In 1997, the...
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    Asghar Khan is credited with establishing the Fighter Leader's School, Mauripur in June 1958, introducing monthly air staff presentations in July 1958...
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    commander of the PAF Base Peshawar, followed by commanding the PAF Base Mauripur and PAF Base Chaklala until 1957. Before posting at the AHQ in Rawalpindi...
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