• Royal Air Force Silloth, or more simply RAF Silloth, is a former Royal Air Force station one mile (1.6 km) north-east of Silloth, Cumbria, England, and...
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    Silloth (sometimes known as Silloth-on-Solway) is a port town and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England. Historically in the county of Cumberland...
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    RAF Kinloss, is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north east of Scotland, UK. The RAF station...
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    existing RAF Coastal Command unit, and disbanded during October 1943. The Coastal Command Landplane Pilots School RAF formed at RAF Silloth on 1 November...
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  • co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2018. "Detail page | Research | Collections | RAF Museum". rafmuseum.org.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2018. "Canadian Historical...
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    Museums. Retrieved 29 May 2012. Smith 1990, p. 32. Smith 1990, p. 187. "Silloth". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 29 May 2012. "The...
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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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  • them involved aircraft from RAF Jurby, but the figures also include aircraft from other stations such as RAF Silloth and RAF Millom. The first fatal wartime...
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    various aircraft. RAF Calshot Seaplane Training Squadron RAF operated with various aircraft. RAF Silloth School of General Reconnaissance RAF operated with...
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  • (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF (1 (C)OTU) The Unit was formed in 1940 as part of RAF Coastal Command at RAF Silloth for training aircrew on coastal...
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  • Maintenance Unit RAF (MU) at RAF Silloth but changed to No. 12 MU at RAF Kirkbride. The landing ground was also temporarily operated by No. 18 MU at RAF Dumfries...
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    available No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF - 1940 to 1943. The OTU was based at nearby RAF Silloth, but routinely used Kirkbride for training flights...
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    runs for approximately twelve-and-a-quarter miles between the towns of Silloth-on-Solway and Wigton in Cumbria, United Kingdom. From west to east, it...
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  • Unit, RAF Aston Down, No. 41 Group (see Flightglobal.com) No. 21 Maintenance Unit, RAF Fauld, No. 42 Group No. 22 Maintenance Unit, RAF Silloth No. 25...
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    Sea. Detachments were located at RAF Silloth and RAF Carew Cheriton until 24 April 1942 when the squadron moved to RAF Bircham Newton. The squadron was...
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  • Crew Pool Unit RAF Ferry Training and Despatch Unit RAF Ferry Training Unit RAF Overseas Ferry Unit RAF Service Ferry Pilots Pool RAF Lake 1999, p. 68...
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  • order of battle of RAF Coastal Command throughout the Second World War in the European Theatre of World War II. No. 15 Group RAF (GR), under command...
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    A Satellite Landing Ground (SLG) is a type of British Royal Air Force (RAF) aviation facility that typically consists of an airfield with one or two grass...
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    Captain's Table, Ship). During a routine training flight from its base at RAF Silloth a mechanical failure prompted a forced landing. The pilot chose a field...
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    (3) RAF St Athan (4) RAF St Eval (3) RAF Scampton (4) RAF Shawbury (4) RAF Sealand (3) RAF Silloth (3) RAF South Cerney (3) RAF Tern Hill (4) RAF Thornaby...
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  • that fall Seaman's initial training was complete, and he was sent to RAF Silloth and assigned to a Lockheed Hudson as part of a four-man crew. From November...
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  • Wigglesworth, CB, AFC (17 October 1893 – 8 August 1961) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played a first-class match...
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    the site of RAF Great Orton, also known as Wiggonby airfield during World War II. It was opened in June 1943 as a satellite of RAF Silloth, it closed in...
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    Whitley aircrew training went to RAF Kinloss, and later RAF Silloth, with the Bristol Beaufort aircrew training remaining at RAF Chivenor. On 29 July 1941 the...
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    10 March No. 6 OTU moved to Silloth. On 23 March 1943 No. 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF arrived from Silloth and trained Handley Page Halifax...
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    storage facility. The largest RAF station by area in the country and one of only two electronic warfare ranges in Europe, RAF Spadeadam is located outside...
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    Kelsick is accessed by two side-roads off the B5302 road, which runs between Silloth and Wigton. The name Kelsick is believed to be derived from an Anglo-Saxon...
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    maiden flight; almost exactly one year later, it entered service with the RAF. During official evaluation testing of the Botha, stability issues were revealed...
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    of another rail connected harbour further west, at Silloth. Accordingly, the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway was incorporated on 16 July 1855 and opened...
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    on take-off at Silloth. 20 April 1950 RF408 of No. 230 Operational Conversion Unit RAF landed with wheels-up during an overshoot at RAF Scampton. 11 May...
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