Force Shallufa or more commonly RAF Shallufa (LG-215) is a former Royal Air Force station located in Suez Governorate, Egypt. From 1942 - 1944, RAF Shallufa...

Towing Unit RAF Target Towing Flight RAF, Shallufa RAF (1953–54) became Middle East Air Force Target Towing Unit RAF No. 1 Towed Target Flight RAF (1939–42)...

This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...

moving to RAF Shallufa on 5 September 1947. The squadron returned on 5 April 1951 with the de Havilland Vampire FB 5 before leaving to RAF Deversoir on...

This is a list of units of the Royal Air Force Regiment. The RAF Regiment is the ground fighting force of the Royal Air Force and is charged mainly with...

the airfield. RAF Kasfareet would commonly experience sandstorms. Around 1955, the RAF transferred the airfield alongside RAF Shallufa to the Egyptian...

during 1940, and even from RAF Shallufa in Egypt, from early November 1941. In October 1943 the squadron transferred to RAF Lagens, in the Azores, as a...

was formed at RAF Chedburgh on 17 June 1943 as a heavy bomber squadron equipped with the Short Stirling. It was a part of No.3 Group of RAF Bomber Command...

transitioned to Avro Lincolns. Lincolns from 148 Squadron deployed to RAF Shallufa in January 1952 to reinforce British units in the Suez Canal Zone. This...

an altitude of 2,000 feet (610 meters) and crashes west-southwest of RAF Shallufa, killing all nine people on board. January 15 – Two Royal Air Force planes...

however RAF officers were pessimistic about ever making good flyers out of the students. The No. 5 Middle East Torpedo School, based in Shallufa, Egypt...

37, 70, 104, 108, and 148 Squadrons RAF. On 1 September 1942, the No. 458 Squadron was re-constituted at Shallufa, in Egypt, and began a new life of maritime...

re-organisation of the RAF's Egypt based-bomber force, 37 Squadron joined the newly established 231 (Bomber) Wing, based at RAF Shallufa and part of 205 Group...

Nos 6 and 213 Squadrons remained flying Tempests at RAF Shallufa, No. 13 Squadron RAF remained at RAF Fayid flying Mosquitos, and five transport squadrons...

Taranto raid. He went on to be Station Commander at RAF Haifa and then RAF Shallufa, before later being taken prisoner of war by the Japanese in 1942 in the...

Aircraft is Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress, serial 41-2459, photographed at RAF Shallufa, Egypt in December 1941 en route via Florida, Caribbean, Brazil, across...

Chief Instructor at RAF Officer Cadet Training School in 1948. He was then successively Station Commander at RAF Shallufa and RAF Kabrit in Egypt before...

Squadron RAF had the landing gear collapse on landing at Shallufa, Egypt. 15 July 1949 RF471 of No. 61 Squadron RAF crashed four miles (6.4 km) from RAF Waddington...

School at RAF Shallufa in Egypt in January 1944 before being posted to the staff at RAF Nicosia in Cyprus in June 1944 and then to the staff at RAF Ranchi...

with No. 104 Squadron RAF from RAF Abu Sueir RAF Shallufa in Egypt. In October he was posted to Empire Air Armament School at RAF Manby as a flying instructor...

Stations: RAF Waddington – 34 EAW (ISTAR) RAF Brize Norton – 38 EAW (Air Transport) RAF Coningsby – 121 EAW (Fighter) RAF Leeming – 135 EAW RAF Marham –...

Weapons Unit RAF Target Towing Section, Shallufa RAF (1953-54) Telecommunications Flying Unit RAF (1941-55) became Radar Research Flying Unit RAF Torpedo Development...

return home were flown to Egypt. In September 1945 the squadron moved to Shallufa in Egypt, from where it operated as a transport squadron within the Mediterranean...

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previous month. By the autumn the regiment was deployed in the Suez and Shallufa area, with 283 HAA Bty detached to Alexandria. However, in October the...

LAA Bty's 12 Bofors were deployed along the Suez Canal between Suez and Shallufa, while 155 LAA Bty had 8 Bofors on the canal and a detached 4-gun troop...

in 2nd AA Bde: one Trp of 41 LAA Bty (4 x Bofors) was in the Suez and Shallufa area, the remainder of 41 and 42 LAA Btys on the Canal with 20 x Bofors...

Port Said and Port Fuad with 24 x S/Ls 390 Bty less 1 Trp at Suez and Shallufa with 18 x S/Ls One Trp 390 Bty at Alexandra with 8 x 150 mm S/Ls giving...

Fayid 74th HAA Rgt – 24 x 3.7-inch *305/27 S/L Rgt – 24 x S/L Suez and Shallufa 88th HAA Rgt – 24 x 3.7-inch 205/89 HAA Bty – 8 x 3.7-inch 5 Australian...

arrived in July, and the LAA guns were deployed round Port Tewfik and Shallufa Airfield. Occasional bombing raids by Ju 88s flying from Greece against...