Royal Air Force Syerston, commonly known simply as RAF Syerston (ICAO: EGXY), is a Royal Air Force station in the parish of Flintham, near Newark, Nottinghamshire...

Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, England. ZA267 Tornado F2T on display at RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire, England. ZA319 Tornado GR1T on display at the Boscombe...

control of HQ No. 2 Flying Training School RAF at RAF Syerston. It is now home to 612 Volunteer Gliding Squadron RAF as the primary military unit, providing...

On 20 September 1958, during an air show at RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire, a prototype Avro Vulcan bomber crashed. All four crew on board and three people...

Way, and the settlement of Syerston. RAF Syerston is almost all in Flintham parish, immediately to the south of Syerston parish and to the west of the...

1 Flying Training School (RAF Shawbury) – basic and advanced helicopter training. No. 2 Flying Training School (RAF Syerston) – gliding training provided...

2017. "RAF Syerston – About us". RAF.MoD.uk. Royal Air Force. Retrieved 25 June 2017. "645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron". Retrieved 9 April 2021. "RAF Valley...

located at RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire and gliding takes places from several sites throughout the UK using the Grob Viking T1. The RAF Central Gliding...

Flying Training School, which was newly reformed for this purpose at RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire, within No. 22 (Training) Group of Air Command. The...

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...

29 EGS – (RAF Syerston) 645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron formerly 26 GS – (RAF Topcliffe) 661 Volunteer Gliding Squadron formerly 1 EGS – (RAF Kirknewton)...

member of the medical team called out on 8 December 1942 from RAF Rauceby to RAF Syerston to attend to Group Captain Walker. She was a WAAF corporal and...

function is undertaken remotely by an individual within the HQ of 2 FTS at RAF Syerston. At the foot of the memorial is inscribed the war-time quote commemorating...

Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass engine. It crashed at a flying display at RAF Syerston in September 1958. The second prototype, VX777, first flew on 3 September...

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...

flying out to RAF Syerston and RAF Newton to be loaded with their bombs. On 14 July 1941, both 300 and 301 squadrons were transferred to RAF Hemswell. After...

airfield was initially used by the Royal Air Force as a satellite of RAF Syerston from 1940 until October 1943. It was known as USAAF Station AAF-488 for...

Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...

Instructor) qualification at RAF Syerston and are then able to deliver the Gliding Scholarship syllabus. "Royal Air Force Syerston". Royal Air Force. Archived...

the closure of the airfield for frontline RAF flying but it continued to be used as a satellite to RAF Syerston (near Newark) and No 2 Flying Training School...

RAF Cranwell Air Training Corps Combined Cadet Force (Royal Air Force) No. 2 Flying Training School, at RAF Syerston Central Gliding School, at RAF Syerston...

April 1955. On 1 May 1955 No. 22 Flying Training School RAF (22 FTS) at RAF Syerston was renamed to 1 FTS. It flew the Percival Provost T.1, de Havilland...

Royal Air Force Spitalgate or more simply RAF Spitalgate formerly known as RFC Grantham and RAF Grantham was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force...

(12 AEF), RAF Turnhouse No. 13 Air Experience Flight RAF (13 AEF), RAF Aldergrove RAF Syerston Air Cadet Central Gliding School (AC CGS) Central Glider...

by the Viper 102, and this entered service with No. 2 FTS, located at RAF Syerston, during June 1959, when deliveries commenced from the Hunting Aircraft...

Storage Units (ASU)s. List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons List of RAF Regiment units List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons List of Army Air...

as a result of which No.5 Group moved its No.50 Squadron to RAF Swinderby. From RAF Syerston, No.1 Group moved in two of the Polish squadrons under its...

2007, p. 105. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...

operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...

Training School at RAF Syerston was the next to convert and it was followed by 2 FTS at RAF Cluntoe, Northern Ireland, 3 FTS at RAF Feltwell and then the...