Royal Air Force Long Kesh, or more simply RAF Long Kesh, is a former Royal Air Force station at Maze, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Various aircraft operated...
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with Kesh All pages with titles containing Kesh Kish (disambiguation) Lil Kesh (Keshinro Ololade, born 1995), Nigerian singer and rapper RAF Long Kesh, a...
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paratroopers were to capture Langford Lodge, Aldergrove and Nutts Corner while RAF Long Kesh, Lisburn was to be destroyed. Notably, on 2 March 1989 a Dan-Air BAe...
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HM Prison Maze (redirect from Long Kesh)
HM Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as the Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used...
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Ireland – Belfast No. 231 Squadron RAF – Tomahawk I/II – RAF Maghaberry 1494 TTF – Lysander/Tomahawk – RAF Long Kesh List of Royal Air Force commands Notes...
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1988, p. 103. 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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sites were studied as possible alternative civil airports including RAF Long Kesh and Lisburn. The advantage of choosing Nutts Corner was the large amount...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
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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regroup, from there moving around to stations in Wales (RAF Llanbedr) and Northern Ireland (RAF Long Kesh). During this time, the Governor of Trinidad and Tobago...
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RNAS Dale (HMS Goldcrest) (redirect from RAF Dale)
disembarked from HMS Stalker on the 19 February 1944 and then moved to RAF Long Kesh on the 20 March 1944. It was equipped with Supermarine Seafire L. III...
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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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Aviation Society's Heritage Collection of Shorts aircraft at the former RAF Long Kesh in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. G-OGIL msn SH3068 is on display at the...
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September 1945 the flight moved to RAF Long Kesh, then it moved back to Sydenham on 3 December 1945. It moved to RAF Aldergrove on 1 December 1946 before...
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Chivenor from Aug 1941. RAF Turnberry from May 1942 until December 1942. RAF Long Kesh from December 1942 until February 1944. RAF Turnberry from February...
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interned were held in a detention facility located at RAF Long Kesh military base, later known as Long Kesh Detention Centre and eventually becoming Her Majesty's...
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operated with Vickers Wellington long-range medium bomber RAF Long Kesh No. 5 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF aircrew training, operated with Bristol...
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Ireland for the production of components of the aircraft. A hangar at RAF Long Kesh was used for assembly of the aircraft and flight testing was carried...
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Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2022. "Long Kesh". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2022...
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relating to Northern Ireland's aviation heritage, located in a hangar of RAF Long Kesh White House, Newtownabbey Newtownabbey Antrim Historic house website...
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363 residents. Maze is the site of HM Prison Maze, formerly a RAF station at Long Kesh. The prison was the main internment centre in Northern Ireland...
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England – not on public display. XT864 — Ulster Aviation Society, Maze-Long Kesh, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. XV426 — City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich...
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No. 652 Squadron AAC (redirect from No. 652 Squadron RAF)
Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) operating six Westland Scouts from Long Kesh army base. Between November 1975 and March 1976 the Squadron was deployed...
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List of wings of the Royal Air Force (redirect from No. 72 (Bomber) Wing RAF)
Stations: RAF Waddington – 34 EAW (ISTAR) RAF Brize Norton – 38 EAW (Air Transport) RAF Coningsby – 121 EAW (Fighter) RAF Leeming – 135 EAW RAF Marham –...
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and re-equipment with Wildcat VI aircraft at RNAS Ballyhalbert and RAF Long Kesh, Northern Ireland while Searcher was refitted at a shipyard on the River...
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List of communications units and formations of the Royal Air Force (redirect from Signals Development Unit RAF)
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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Ulster Aviation Society, Long Kesh, Maze, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Buccaneer S2B, XV865, in the markings of No. 208 Squadron RAF at the Imperial War Museum...
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– 5 August 1944 Bolling Field, District of Columbia, c. 4 July 1942 RAF Long Kesh (Station 232), Northern Ireland, 12 September 1942 – November 1942 Kirkassock...
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No. 660 Squadron AAC (redirect from No. 660 Squadron RAF)
1970 RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland (NI) 15 Jun – 17 Oct 73 A small Scout and Sioux detachment stood-up for a four-month tour at Long Kesh in NI...
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TA Centre), Sussex Bulldog T.1 XX637 at Ulster Aviation Society, Maze Long Kesh, Lisburn, Northern Ireland (Current markings are a XX530 tribute) Data...
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Jet Provost T3A, XM414, is located at the Ulster Aviation Society at Long Kesh, Northern Ireland. Jet Provost T3A, XM479 (registered as "G-BVEZ" for...
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