• Royal Air Force Sturgate or more simply RAF Sturgate is a former Royal Air Force station located 10 miles (16 km) north of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England...
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    Air Command (SAC) Boeing B-47 Stratojet rotational deployments from RAF Sturgate. These deployments generally involved about 45 aircraft, together with...
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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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  • (Defence) Training Flight RAF equipped with Supermarine Spitfire & Hawker Hurricane RAF Sturgate (satellite of RAF Hemswell) No. 11 Base RAF Lindholme Station...
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    airfields in Lincolnshire fitted with FIDO systems were RAF Fiskerton, RAF Metheringham and RAF Sturgate and there were only 15 FIDO stations in the UK, mostly...
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    first missiles be based at RAF Sturgate and RAF East Kirkby in Lincolnshire, where the USAF already had a presence. The RAF rejected this, as it envisaged...
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    Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
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    Metheringham (Lincolnshire) RAF St Eval (Cornwall) RAF Sturgate (Lincolnshire) RAF Tuddenham (Suffolk) RAF Woodbridge (Suffolk) – Emergency Landing Ground...
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    systems were RAF Fiskerton, RAF Ludford Magna and RAF Sturgate and there were only 15 FIDO stations in the UK, mostly on the east coast. RAF Metheringham...
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  • 1918–1919 RAF Waddington: 1937–1940 RAF Lindholme: 1940–1941 RAF Swinderby: 1941–1942 RAF Skellingthorpe: 1942–1945 RAF Sturgate: 1945–1946 RAF Waddington:...
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  • Sturgate Airfield (ICAO: EGCS) is an aerodrome located 10 miles (16 km) north of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Originally opened in 1944 as RAF Sturgate...
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  • 1992 RAF Shepherds Grove, (Closed by USAFE 1958) RAF Stanstead-Monfitchet, (Closed by SAC 1955) RAF St Eval (SAC deployments ended 1966) RAF Sturgate, (Closed...
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    No. 7 Group RAF (7 Gp) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group active in the latter part of the First World War, during the 1920s and also in the Second...
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  • Approach beacon system Units of the Royal Air Force. The first system to guide RAF aircraft safely down onto a runway was called the Standard Blind Approach...
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  • World War and after, until disbanded in 1958. No. 61 Squadron was formed at RAF Rochford, Essex, on 24 July 1917 or on 2 August of that year, as one of the...
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    Misawa Air Base, Japan, 13 October 1952 – c. 13 February 1953 Deployed to RAF Sturgate, England, 7 May–17 August 1955 Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, 18...
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    Chitose Air Base, Japan, 17 October 1952 – c. 13 February 1953 Deployed to RAF Sturgate, England, 7 May–17 August 1955 Deployed to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa,...
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    (deployed to Misawa AB, Japan, 13 October 1952 – c. 13 February 1953 and RAF Sturgate, England, 7 May 1955 – 19 August 1955) Cannon AFB, New Mexico, 18 February...
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  • Group Ben Guerir Air Base, French Morocco SAC 3928th Air Base Group RAF Sturgate, UK SAC 1954-57; redesignated 1960 as 3928th Combat Support Group 3936th...
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  • United Kingdom (and its Crown Dependencies) begin with the two letters "EG". RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands also uses the "EG" code. Airport names...
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    Manby (section RAF Manby)
    other is the 6th Skegness. RAF Manby was situated near the village between 1938 and 1974. Houses in Manby were built for RAF personnel, with village streets...
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  • 1959 EGCS Sturgate Airfield Lincoln England EGCT Tilstock EGCV Sleap Airfield Shrewsbury England EGCW Welshpool Airport Welshpool Wales EGDA RAF Brawdy Pembrokeshire...
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  • at an average speed of 537.802 mph in 12:17.2 minutes. Deployed at Sturgate RAF Station, England, 7 May – 17 August. 1955. Emblem approved on 11 July...
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