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    Royal Air Force Honiley or RAF Honiley is a former Royal Air Force station located in Wroxall, Warwickshire, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Coventry, England...
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    Honiley is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall, in the Warwick district, in the county...
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    Squadron RAF at RAF Atcham with Spitfire No. 255 Squadron RAF at RAF High Ercall with Beaufighter No. 257 Squadron RAF at RAF Honiley with Hurricane &...
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  • Auxiliary Air Force, No. 605 Squadron was reformed on 10 May 1946 at RAF Honiley as a night fighter squadron, though its initial equipment of Mosquito...
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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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    Units and a detachment of 6(P)AFU was based there for a few months. RAF Honiley assumed control of Chedworth in October and it was used by No. 2 (Air...
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    officer on 27 November 1943. He was appointed chief training instructor at RAF Honiley in Warwickshire and was demobilised with the rank of flight lieutenant...
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  • BHY may refer to: Beihai Fucheng Airport, the IATA code BHY RAF Honiley, the former IATA code BHY Birgenair, the ICAO code BHY Bhele language, the ISO...
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    2005. 15 July 1956 WP283, Attacker FB2, 1833 Sqn stalled on approach to RAF Honiley and crashed on a road, killing a civilian. Following its retirement from...
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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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  • Unit RAF (63 OTU) 63 OTU was formed in August 1943 at RAF Honiley to train night fighter crews. No. 70 (Middle East) Operational Training Unit RAF (70...
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    Station from September 1940 before being downgraded to a satellite of RAF Honiley from August 1941. After the war, the airport was returned to civil use...
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    No. 12 Group RAF (12 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was a group, a military formation, that existed over two separate periods, namely the end of the First...
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  • available after US F1 Team collapsed. Prodrive had a facility at the former RAF Honiley airfield and LucasVarity proving ground near Wroxall, Warwickshire, together...
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  • such as RAF Windrush, RAF Chipping Norton, RAF Akeman Street and RAF Moreton Valence as relief landing grounds along with RAF Honiley and RAF Chedworth...
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    village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxall, in the Warwick district, in the county of Warwickshire, England...
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  • required better runway facilities, the squadron then moved to nearby RAF Honiley. The Midland Air Division was formed on 1 July 1953 to control Bramcote-based...
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    No. 1456 (Fighter) Flight was formed at RAF Honiley, Warwickshire on 24 November 1941, equipped with Turbinlite Douglas Boston and Douglas Havoc aircraft...
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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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    the UK. Gorton completed his training at RAF Heston and RAF Honiley, with No. 61 Operational Training Unit RAF, flying Supermarine Spitfires. He was disappointed...
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    Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command, but they could not prevent widespread destruction of industrial cities. Only once did the RAF lose as many as nine...
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  • RAF Coltishall in Norfolk with a detachment at RAF West Malling Kent, thereafter High Ercall and Honiley. Almost exclusively, the squadron was involved...
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  • (81 ha) motorsport facility called "The Fulcrum" (based at the former RAF Honiley airfield) near Wroxall, Warwickshire. On 28 April 2006, rallying and...
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    and the station came under control from the Signals Flying Unit RAF from RAF Honiley but not long after flying ceased at Stratford and the station was...
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  • fighter unit equipped with the Hawker Hurricane IIA at RAF Baginton, but moved to RAF Honiley on 4 September. It became operational for a month on 3 October...
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    appointments followed; from October 1952 he was station commander at RAF Honiley in England and from April 1953 was promoted to group captain and assigned...
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  • Air Force. The headquarters of the squadron at that time were located at RAF Wyton. On 11 November 1918 an armistice between the Allies and the German...
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    intruder missions over north-western Europe from RAF Woodvale, RAF Honiley, RAF Bradwell Bay and RAF Hunsdon. It moved to bases in France in October 1944...
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  • praise. Wing Commander Wheeler was then posted as Station Commander to RAF Honiley in Warwickshire. This was a night fighter station which at that time...
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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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