Royal Air Force Colerne or more simply RAF Colerne is a former Royal Air Force station which was on the outskirts of the village of Colerne in Wiltshire...
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Colerne is a village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England. The village is about 3.5 miles (6 km) west of the town of Corsham and 7 miles (11 km)...
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is set to close in 2029. RAF Colerne was opened on this site in 1940, and was in operation until 1976. From 1940 to 1955, RAF Fighter Command units were...
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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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moving to RAF Boxted. No. 74 Squadron RAF between 2 June 1946 and 9 June 1945 with Meteor F.3s moved to RAF Colerne. No. 124 Squadron RAF between 5 October...
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Control, and Support; with subordinate detachments based at RAF Rudloe Manor, RAF Colerne and RAF Defford. Command and Control of the system was conducted...
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Army and RAF personnel, on 23 March it sailed in convoy to India.[citation needed] In November 1943 No. 456 Squadron RAAF arrived from RAF Colerne, equipped...
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operators of the Hastings at RAF Colerne. A year later the squadron disbanded when it was re-numbered to No. 36 Squadron RAF (36 Sqn) on 1 September 1958...
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24 Squadron moved to RAF Colerne. It was replaced by No. 53 Squadron RAF operating the Beverley. In 1956 in support of the R.A.F. relief efforts to Hungarian...
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Colerne Order of Battle during July 1944: HQ at Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England Blackpool = No. 13 Radio School RAF...
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Bristol Airport (redirect from RAF Lulsgate Bottom)
airfield for the fighter squadrons based at RAF Colerne. Originally, the new airfield's name was to be RAF Broadfield Down. The airfield used a standard-issue...
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List of Royal Air Force Maintenance units (redirect from No. 1 Maintenance Unit RAF)
May 2012. "RAF Burtonwood". Control Towers. Retrieved 30 May 2012. "RAF Llandow airfield". Control Towers. Retrieved 30 May 2012. "RAF Colerne". Air of...
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Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command, but they could not prevent widespread destruction of industrial cities. Only once did the RAF lose as many as nine...
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was initially rejected. Finally, in August 1942 the squadron moved to RAF Colerne in Wiltshire and bomb-racks were fitted to eight aircraft; initially...
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No. 662 Squadron AAC (redirect from No. 662 Squadron RAF)
Auxiliary Air Force was reformed as such at RAF Colerne on 1 May 1949, also operating a flight from RAF Middle Wallop, to provide support to the Army...
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this time included RAF Muharraq in the Persian Gulf and Hong Kong. When RAF Colerne was closed in 1976 the Squadron moved to RAF Catterick with II Squadron...
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– Colerne Airfield No. 4 Air Experience Flight RAF – Glasgow Airport No. 5 Air Experience Flight RAF – RAF Wittering No. 6 Air Experience Flight RAF –...
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Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range (redirect from RAF Pembrey Sands)
on to RAF Colerne in June. RAF Fairwood Common and RAF Angle had taken over the air defence of the South Wales area by the middle of 1941 and RAF Pembrey...
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Blackbushe No. 622 Squadron RAF RAF Booker No. 622 Squadron RAF No. 1 (Basic) Flying Training School RAF RAF Colerne No. 622 Squadron RAF No. 1956 Air Observation...
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Air Force Communication Wing RAF, was established on 31 March 1945, and disbanded only three and a half months later at RAF Buckeburg on 15 July 1945, by...
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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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Defence College of Air and Space Operations (redirect from School of Aerospace Battle Management RAF)
October 1946 it used Spitfires and an Avro Anson from a unit based at RAF Colerne with the school moving to Middle Wallop on 12 January 1948. The unit was...
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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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I aircraft. 263 Sqn remained until August 1942, when it departed for RAF Colerne. Next came No. 152 Sqn, equipped with Supermarine Spitfire, but left...
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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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Mk II which had been a gate guardian at RAF Colerne in Wiltshire. During the actual aerial conflict, all RAF Spitfires were Spitfire Mk I and Mark II...
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War RAF Pengam Moors was used as an emergency landing field for Spitfires, Hurricanes and other aircraft from RAF Colerne, RAF Fairwood Common. RAF Filton...
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Structure of the Royal Air Force (redirect from Structure of the RAF)
Bristol University Air Squadron, at Colerne Airfield, (Grob Tutor T1) Cambridge University Air Squadron, at RAF Wittering, (Grob Tutor T1) East Midlands...
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from RAF Colerne to RAF Lyneham and re-equipped with the Lockheed Hercules. The squadron re-equipped with the new generation Hercules C.4 and C.5 (RAF designations...
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No. 1457 (Fighter) Flight was formed at RAF Colerne on 15 September 1941, and was equipped with Turbinlite Douglas Boston and Douglas Havoc aircraft....
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