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    Royal Air Force Hethel or more simply RAF Hethel is a former Royal Air Force station (ICAO: EGSK) which was used by both the United States Army Air Forces...
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    the 1960s. The Lotus Cars test track uses sections of the old RAF Hethel runway. Hethel is noted for containing the oldest known living hawthorn tree...
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    RAF Turnhouse 4 January 1946 – RAF Wick 31 March 1946 – RAF Charterhall 23 March 1946 – RAF Hethel (under British command until 1 January 1941. Abbreviations:...
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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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    and Team Lotus are on the eastern edge of the former RAF Hethel, east of Wymondham (A11) at Hethel (Bracon Ash). Jeyes Group makes household chemicals...
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    factory and road test facility at Hethel, near Wymondham in Norfolk. The site is a former World War II airfield, RAF Hethel, and the test track uses sections...
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  • Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 11 February 2013. "Hethel". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 11 February 2013. "Hickling...
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    Combat Bombardment Wing, RAF Hethel (Call sign: Winston/Bourbon) 389th Bombardment Group (Circle-C, Black/White Vertical ), RAF Hethel 445th Bombardment Group...
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    Royal Air Force Ahlhorn or more simply RAF Ahlhorn, is a former Royal Air Force station located 1 mile (1.6 km) south east of the centre of Ahlhorn, Lower...
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    by the enemy's air defence. It was disbanded on 18 December 1946, at RAF Hethel. A replica Hurricane in 302 squadron markings was the gate guardian at...
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    Chapman moved Lotus to new premises at Hethel in Norfolk. A new factory was built on the site, the former RAF Hethel bomber base, and the old runways were...
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    Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
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    Royal Air Force Molesworth or more simply RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force station located near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England with a history...
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    Royal Air Force Honington or more simply RAF Honington (IATA: BEQ, ICAO: EGXH) is a Royal Air Force station located 6 mi (9.7 km) south of Thetford near...
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    Royal Air Force Fairwood Common, or more simply RAF Fairwood Common, (IATA: EGFH, ICAO: SWS) is a former Royal Air Force Sector Station located on Fairwood...
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    Most of West Thurrock Power Station, completed in 1965 Lotus factory, RAF Hethel, completed in 1966 Shell Teesside Refinery, completed in 1967 Heathrow...
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    served with VIII Bomber Command in England. The group was stationed at RAF Hethel in early 1943. It was one of three Eighth Air Force B-24 groups that took...
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    Royal Air Force Burtonwood (or RAF Burtonwood) is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces base that was located in Burtonwood, 2 miles...
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  • Squadron, Very Heavy RAF Hethel B-24 Redesignated 565th Strategic Missile Squadron (1958) 566th Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy RAF Hethel B-24 Redesignated...
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  • BrightDrop electric vans. H (Lotus models) N (Speedster & VX220) Lotus Cars RAF Hethel United Kingdom Opel Speedster/Vauxhall VX220 Opel Lotus Omega A / Vauxhall...
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    States on the RMS Queen Mary on 5 September, arriving at RAF Hethel on 12 September, and moving to RAF Tibenham at the beginning of October. In England, it...
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    Royal Air Force High Wycombe or more simply RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in...
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    States on the RMS Queen Mary on 5 September, arriving at RAF Hethel on 12 September, and moving to RAF Tibenham at the beginning of October. In England, it...
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    Old Catton (AAF-108), England, c. 7 September 1942 RAF Hethel (AAF-114), England, 14 September 1943 RAF Alconbury (AAF-102), England, c. 12 June – c. 25...
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    States on the RMS Queen Mary on 5 September, arriving at RAF Hethel on 12 September, and moving to RAF Tibenham at the beginning of October. In England, it...
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    Royal Air Force Podington, more commonly known as RAF Podington, is a former Royal Air Force station in northern Bedfordshire, England, 6 miles (10 kilometres)...
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  • Nordhorn, B.113 Varrelbusch and B.111 Ahlhorn. It moved back to England and RAF Hethel where it was disbanded on 2 January 1947. List of Wings of the Royal Air...
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    Royal Air Force Bovingdon or more simply RAF Bovingdon is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England...
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    fighter unit on 3 January 1947 (it had earlier disbanded as a RAF fighter unit at RAF Hethel on 18 December 1946). Lewis 1968, pp. 95–97; 125. Halley 1988...
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    the time the ground echelon arrived at the squadron's combat station, RAF Hethel, the squadron had been called upon to reinforce Ninth Air Force in Africa...
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