No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group is a group within the Royal Air Force, currently based at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Originally formed in 1943, during...
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between Summer 2009 and November 2014. It used to report to No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF (83 EAG). 903 Wing RAF was active from 1 December 1944; 79 years...
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On 1 April 2006 Expeditionary Air Wings (EAWs) were formed at nine of the RAF's Main Operating Bases. Each EAW has its own identity and is led by the...
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headquarters of the United States Air Forces Central Command, No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF, and the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF. In 1999,...
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No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group No. 901 Expeditionary Air Wing No. 902 Expeditionary Air Wing No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing No. 904 Expeditionary Air...
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East in November 2023. Headquarters, No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group, at RAF Al Udeid, Qatar No. 901 Expeditionary Air Wing, at RAF Al Udeid Joint Force Communication...
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Command headquarters, as all are at High Wycombe. No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group (83 EAG), the renamed UK Air Component Headquarters in the Middle East, has...
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the Royal Naval Air Service; a fighter group formed from a wing in the British Expeditionary Force in 1940; and finally a fighter group covering Scotland...
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No. 1 Group of the Royal Air Force is one of the two operations groups in RAF Air Command. Today, the group is referred to as the Air Combat Group, as...
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No. 2 Group is a group of the Royal Air Force which was first activated in 1918, served from 1918–20, from 1936 through the Second World War to 1947,...
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deployable on an expeditionary basis. It used to report to No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group. In the Second World War, the wing existed for a brief period...
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Hub for expeditionary warfare by the British Army. Oman's RAFO Musannah is also home to 902 Expeditionary Air Wing and Merlin helicopters. No. 83 Expeditionary...
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MoD.uk. Royal Air Force. Retrieved 14 June 2017. "RAF - 83 Expeditionary Air Group – 903 Expeditionary Air Wing". RAF.MoD.uk. Royal Air Force. Retrieved...
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No. 8 Group RAF (8 Gp) was a Royal Air Force group which existed during the final year of the First World War and during the Second World War. No. 8 Group...
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No. 5 Group RAF (5 Gp) was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 – 1945) by AVM Sir Ralph...
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No. 11/18 Group was a short-lived formation of Strike Command in the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1996 as part of the post-Cold War reorganisation...
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Johnny Stringer (RAF officer) (category Royal Air Force air marshals)
(ACOS Ops) to Headquarters Air Command in August 2015. He went on to command No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group as the UK Air Component Commander between...
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No. 9 Group RAF (9 Gp) was a group of the Royal Air Force, which existed over two separate periods, initially at the end of the First World War, and latterly...
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contemporary No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group, the air officer commanding held or holds air commodore rank. In the Air Training Corps, an appointed air commodore...
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British Armed Forces (section Expeditionary forces)
Udeid, a Royal Air Force outpost at Al Udeid Air Base which serves as the operational headquarters for No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group and its operations...
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No. 10 Group RAF (10 Gp) was a former operations group of the Royal Air Force which participated in the Second World War. It was formed on 1 April 1918...
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Barry North (category Royal Air Force air marshals)
a squadron leader and the newly established No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group in the Middle East as an air commodore. North was born in September 1959....
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No. 22 Group Royal Air Force (22 Gp) is one of six groups currently active in the Royal Air Force (RAF), falling under the responsibility of Deputy Commander-in-Chief...
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AOCs: AOC 1 Group AOC 2 Group AOC 11 Group AOC 22 Group AOC No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group, a dual hat for the United Kingdom Air Component Commander in...
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Udeid Air Base in Qatar houses the Royal Air Force's operational headquarters in the Middle East. It is host to the RAF's No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group. The...
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Martin Sampson (category Royal Air Force air marshals)
promoted to air commodore and appointed Joint Force Air Component Commander. In 2014 he assumed command of the No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group and the position...
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No. 13 Group RAF (13 Gp) was a group in the Royal Air Force for various periods in the 20th century. It is most famous for having the responsibility for...
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original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2017. "No 83 Expeditionary Air Group". Royal Air Force. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017...
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Alan Gillespie (category Royal Air Force air marshals)
went on to become UK Air Component Commander at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and Air Officer Commanding No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group in 2013, the Battlespace...
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Stuart Atha (category Royal Air Force air marshals)
commanded RAF Coningsby (2006–08), No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group (2009–10) and No. 1 Group (2011–14), and served as the Air Component Commander for security...
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