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    Royal Air Force Tern Hill, or more simply RAF Tern Hill, (ICAO: EGOE) was a Royal Air Force station at Ternhill in Shropshire, England, near the towns...
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    Ternhill (redirect from Tern Hill)
    Tern Hill, also known as Ternhill, is a village in Shropshire, England, notable as the location of the former RAF Tern Hill station, which is now operated...
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    opened as RAF Ollerton in 1941 as No. 21 Satellite Landing Ground, as an emergency landing ground for RAF Tern Hill. It was utilised by RAF Maintenance...
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    close in 2029. The barracks were established on the site of the former RAF Tern Hill airfield in 1976; they were initially named Borneo Barracks, before...
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    Squadron RAF at RAF Cranage No. 229 Squadron RAF at RAF Speke No. 306 Polish Fighter Squadron at RAF Tern Hill No. 308 Polish Fighter Squadron at RAF Baginton...
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  • final. In those early days teams from the armed forces, such as RAF Tern Hill and RAF Stoke Heath, dominated. However, the farmers from Harper Adams along...
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    Royal Air Force 1950–1967". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 29 May 2012. "Tern Hill (Stoke Heath)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 29...
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  • 2007, p. 105. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...
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  • 1955 until 1 June 1957 when it moved to Little Rissington. It moved to RAF Tern Hill in August 1961. From 1966, the Westland-built Sioux helicopter began...
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    1941, Parrott was posted to the Central Flying School, then RAF Hullavington and RAF Tern Hill, all on instructional duties. After this, he had a brief spell...
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    186 GS 632 VGS — RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire 644 VGS — RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire 645 VGS — RAF Topcliffe, North Yorkshire 661 VGS — RAF Kirknewton, West...
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    Battle of Britain, the defence of the UK's airspace was divided up within RAF Fighter Command into four Groups, each comprising several airfields and squadrons...
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    (3) RAF St Athan (4) RAF St Eval (3) RAF Scampton (4) RAF Shawbury (4) RAF Sealand (3) RAF Silloth (3) RAF South Cerney (3) RAF Tern Hill (4) RAF Thornaby...
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  • 3 Squadron of the Central Flying School (Helicopter), a lodger from RAF Tern Hill. It operated the Westland Whirlwind HAR.10. It later became the Search...
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  • Aerodrome & Tern Hill Aerodrome and was transferred to Western Group Command on 26 September 1917 then on 1 April 1918 it was transferred 13th Group RAF and disbanded...
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  • from No. 85 (Expeditionary Logistics) Wing RAF to form RLSW. No. 605 Squadron was formed on 5 October 1926 at RAF Castle Bromwich as a day bomber unit of...
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    Ascension Island (redirect from RAF FC)
    boatswain, pronounced BO-sun birds, by the inhabitants of the island), white tern, brown noddy, black noddy and Ascension frigatebird. The Ascension crake...
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    RAF Ascension Island (IATA: ASI, ICAO: FHAW), also known as Wideawake Airfield or Ascension Island Auxiliary Field, is a military airfield and facility...
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    632 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, at Tern Hill Airfield, (Grob Viking T1) No. 637 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, at RAF Little Rissington, (Grob Viking T1)...
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  • Air Navigation and No. 48 Squadron RAF at Manston; the Station Flight and No. 24 MU at Tern Hill; and No. 27 MU at RAF Shawbury. In September 1939 it controlled...
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  • 1940. After completing RAF Flying School at Tern Hill, England, on April 16, 1941, Pilot Officer Dunn was assigned to the RAF's No. 71 Squadron, also known...
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  • in Cymyran Bay. The islands are important for their tern colony, in particular for roseate tern, for which this is the most regular breeding site on...
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    of the British Army, to form an independent service, the Royal Air Force (RAF). Currently the abbreviation RNAS stands for "Royal Naval Air Station", and...
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    and sent to Martlesham Heath for a month, before moving again, this to Tern Hill where it stayed until May. By this time Hayter had flown on 150 sorties...
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    HMS Cicala HMS Cornflower HMS Moth HMS Redstart HMS Robin HMS Scout HMS Tern HMS Thanet HMS Thracian HMS Watergate Royal Naval Dockyard Police Hong Kong...
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    June. The next month, he proceeded to No. 10 Flying Training School at Tern Hill. In December 1939, with his training completed, Urwin-Mann was sent to...
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    Dockyard HMS Vulcan HMNB Devonport HMNB Portsmouth HMS Jufair Mare Harbour RAF Mount Pleasant Stanley HMS Drake (HMNB Devonport, Devonport, Devon) HMS Nelson...
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    Reserve is located to the east of the town. Both reserves are important for tern species and a number of wading birds and waterfowl. Hodbarrow is renowned...
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    falcons. Anglesey holds several tern species, including the roseate tern on three breeding sites – see Anglesey tern colonies. There are marked occurrences...
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    1982–1983 decline Little white tern (Gygis microrhyncha) – 8,000 birds before the 1982–1983 decline Central Pacific sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus oahuensis)...
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