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    Royal Air Force Gatow, or more commonly RAF Gatow, was a British Royal Air Force station (military airbase) in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin...
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    Luftkriegsschule II, and then by the Royal Air Force and Army Air Corps as RAF Gatow. RAF Gatow has the unlikely distinction of having been home during the Berlin...
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  • museum is in Berlin at a former Luftwaffe and Royal Air Force (RAF) airfield, RAF Gatow. The focus is on military history, particularly the history of...
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    British European Airways (BEA) Vickers VC.1B Viking airliner crashed near RAF Gatow air base, after being struck by a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter...
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    RAF Gatow & Olympic Stadium 3 Intelligence and Security Company, Intelligence Corps 7 Flight AAC, RAF Gatow, (4x Gazelle AH.1) Royal Air Force Gatow Station...
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    operated for some months into 1959. From 1956 to 1990, the Chipmunks of the RAF Gatow Station Flight were used to conduct covert reconnaissance missions by...
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    South Africa, conducted their airlift known as "Operation Plainfare". RAF Gatow was modernised with a 2,000 yards (1,800 m) long concrete runway, using...
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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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    the plane. This included the engines, which were taken to RAF Gatow to be inspected by RAF and American engineers. The bodies of the two pilots were returned...
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  • included RAF Signals Command, which was later reduced to group status and incorporated into RAF Strike Command. Nos 26 and No. 60 Group RAF were established...
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    1923 and closed in 2008. RAF Gatow (IATA: GWW, ICAO: EDBG), the former Royal Air Force military airbase in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin...
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    2848 Field Squadron was the first RAF unit to arrive in West Berlin in 1945 to secure Luftwaffe Flugplatz Gatow. King George VI became Air Commodore-in-Chief...
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    vanished from the modern RAF fleet. Chipmunk WG486 flew reconnaissance missions over East Germany, as part of the RAF Gatow Station Flight, in co-operation...
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    Corps. On 1 April 1990 renamed 667 (D&T) Squadron AAC) 7 Flight AAC, RAF Gatow, Berlin, (4x Gazelle AH.1), supported the Berlin Infantry Brigade 8 Flight...
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  • Force Germany, commonly known as RAF Germany, and abbreviated RAFG, is a former command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and part of British Forces Germany...
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    Berlin and Germany from 1945 to 1994 (in German, English and French) RAF Schleswigland and RAF Gatow during the Berlin Airlift Portals: Germany Aviation...
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    ground to powder and dispersed in the North Sea, or buried at the former RAF Gatow airbase, with the exception of a single set of keys now exhibited in the...
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    2021. Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow. [1] Tornado – Der erste Protoyp jetzt in Gatow, October 2012 (German). Retrieved 5 October 2014...
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  • Bridge RAF Gatow, RAF Membury after its closure, and RAF Wunstorf during the Berlin Airlift. As part of his research Innes hitched a lift with the RAF into...
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    Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow at former RAF Gatow, Berlin, Germany. Luftwaffe Canberra B.2 99+36, (former RAF WK130) is on display at the Auto...
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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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  • located at Lüneburg in the later half of 1951, but then was moved to RAF Gatow in early 1952. Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935–45 Germany...
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    – OV-10B on display at the Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow. TT-1004 – OV-10F at Karjono Park, Banjarnegara Regency, Central Java TT-1006...
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    flight from Northolt via Hamburg to Berlin collided during its approach to RAF Gatow head-on with a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter, which was performing...
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  • jet fighter. Reconnaissance missions from RAF Gatow by Chipmunks (article includes photos). The ex-RAF Gatow Chipmunk in the Battle of Britain Memorial...
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  • training, spending a year at RAF Tangmere in Tangmere, Sussex, and was posted to the signals intelligence unit at RAF Gatow in Berlin, where he worked as...
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    that day's scheduled flight from RAF Northolt via Hamburg to RAF Gatow in Berlin collided during its approach to RAF Gatow with a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev...
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    Airways Vickers Viking 1B airliner near RAF Gatow airfield, killing all aboard both aircraft. Later dubbed the Gatow air disaster, this event exacerbated...
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  • Intelligence at RAF Gatow 3rd Intelligence and Security Company, Intelligence Corps 7 Flight AAC, RAF Gatow, (4x Gazelle AH.1) Royal Air Force Gatow Station Flight...
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    McCloy arrives at RAF Gatow in Berlin to attend the Potsdam Conference in 1945....
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