• Royal Air Force Alness, or more simply RAF Alness, is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.1 miles (1.8 km) southwest of Alness, Ross and Cromarty...
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    Alness has increased by around 20% since the last census in 2011. The population as of 2016 was 6,101. For most of the 1990s and early 2000s, Alness regularly...
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    operation management roles. Squadron personnel were on a two-month rotation at RAF Al Udeid with the remainder of the force on a four-month rotation. Support...
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  • Airport. RAF Alness, Alness, Ross and Cromarty Bembridge Harbour, Isle of Wight (1915-1919) Brough Aerodrome, East Riding of Yorkshire RNAS Calshot/RAF Calshot...
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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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    original partner nations. A training and evaluation unit operating from RAF Cottesmore, the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment, maintained a...
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    stations: RAF Cosford RAF Halton RAF Cranwell RAF Shawbury RAF St Mawgan RAF Valley RAF Woodvale MoD St Athan Headquarters, No. 22 Group, at RAF High Wycombe...
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    Royal Air Force (redirect from RAF stations)
    The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards...
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  • from the Al-Khadim airport to the southeast of Marj and Jardas Al-Abid. "Anger erupts on Yemen's Socotra as UAE deploys over 100 troops". Al-Jazeera....
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    based here in support of Operation Telic before moving to RAF Al Udeid (a section of the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar). In October 2019, 2,000 U.S. troops...
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    troops and subsequent German aerial attacks. 123 Signals Unit RAF Al Taqaddum - TQ RAF Habbaniya Lake Tharthar Lake Milh Lake Qadisiyah Mosul Dam List...
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    Orkney HMS Wagtail, Heathfield, Ayr, South Ayrshire RAF Benbecula RAF Kirknewton RAF Lossiemouth RAF Tain Previously within the British Army, the Scottish...
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    RAF operated with Consolidated Liberator heavy bomber and Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber RAF Alness No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF operated...
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    operations at RAF Alconbury, RAF Croughton, RAF Fairford, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Molesworth, and RAF Welford, whereas RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall are...
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    al-fiqh = al-Fawāʾid = al-Mabṣūṭ (lost) Al-Jāmiʾ al-Ṣaḥīḥ = al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr = al-Musnad al-kabīr Rafʿ al-yadayn fī al-ṣalāh Al-Qirāʾa khalfa al-imām Kitāb...
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    military forces, as was seen during the 1982 Falklands War and the use of RAF Ascension Island as a staging post. Most of the bases are located on British...
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    2021 the RAF executed its first operational air-to-air engagement with a Typhoon, shooting down a small hostile drone with an ASRAAM near the Al-Tanf coalition...
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    UK-US signals intelligence facility. Qatar is home to RAF Al Udeid, a Royal Air Force outpost at Al Udeid Air Base which serves as the operational headquarters...
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    the No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit departed Cromarty Firth, RAF Alness on an anti-submarine patrol of the North Sea off the coast of Scotland...
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    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...
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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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    the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal Silsilat al-Dhahab Taʿrif Ahl al-Taqdis bi Maratib al-Mawsufin bi al-Tadlis Raf' al-isr 'an qudat Misr – a biographical dictionary...
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    propeller from a Catalina was found and restored by RAF apprentices and now resides in the town of Alness. The tennis courts on the industrial estate are...
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    as a seaplane base during the War and the RAF maintained a presence in Alness until at least the 1980s. RAF Evanton was used for secret flights in the...
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    and landing (V/STOL) jet aircraft used previously by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and, between 2006 and 2010, the Royal Navy (RN). The aircraft was the latest...
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  • 2023 – June 2024) Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar - 901 Expeditionary Air Wing RAF RAFO Musannah, Oman - 902 Expeditionary Air Wing RAF Al Minhad Air Base, UAE...
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  • Wing) Motto of 379 (County of Ross) Squadron of the Air Training Corps (Alness, Highlands of Scotland) Motto of 58 (Harrogate) Squadron of the Air Training...
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    RAF Leeming, providing air combat training and dogfight training to RAF and Royal Navy pilots. In December 2021, the Ministry of Defence stated RAF Typhoons...
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  • Habbaniyah (redirect from Al Habbaniyah)
    west of Baghdad in Al-Anbar Province, in central Iraq. A military airfield, RAF Habbaniya, was the site of a battle in 1941, during World War II. Lake Habbaniyah...
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    Other British military bases within the region include HMS Jufair and RAF Al Udeid, which are located in Bahrain and Qatar, respectively. Prior to construction...
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