RAF Coastal Area was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). Founded in 1919, it was to act as the RAF's premier maritime arm. It was replaced by...

RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal...

Lee-on-Solent became HQ RAF Coastal Area, and a major rebuilding programme ensued. On 14 July 1936, an expanded RAF Coastal Area became RAF Coastal Command, with...

Donibristle became a RAF Station between 1918 and 1939 operated by the Fleet Air Arm as part of RAF Coastal Area and later Coastal Command. During the...

(Operations) Group RAF until 31 March 1922 when it was disbanded into RAF Coastal Area. It was reformed as No. 29 (Flying Training) Group within RAF Flying Training...

submarines by RAF Coastal Command. The unit left RAF Templeton in December 1943, moving to RAF St Athan where it was renamed No. 12 Radio School RAF. 'A' Flight...

RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served...

Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). Founded in 1936, it was to act as the RAF maritime arm, after the Fleet Air Arm became...

Squadron RAF No. 324 Wing RAF, Spitfires No. 43 Squadron RAF No. 72 Squadron RAF No. 93 Squadron RAF No. 111 Squadron RAF No. 243 Squadron RAF 57th Fighter...

Air Service. This negotiation led to the creation of RAF Coastal Area the predecessor of RAF Coastal Command to deal with its relationship with the Navy...

squadron was transferred from Bomber Command to Coastal Command to undertake maritime patrols. It moved to RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland on 28 April and...

construction of an airfield for RAF Coastal Command to use as a bomber operational training unit, was given for an area of fields between the villages...

Battalion numbers for 29 June 1940. 544 aircrew (RAF Fighter Command), 718 (RAF Bomber Command), 280 (RAF Coastal Command) killed 1,220 fighters (753 Hurricane...

HMS Argus. During this period, he was in No. 205 Squadron RAF (Coastal Area, No.9 Group), based out of RAF Leuchars. In 1927, trouble flared up on the North-West...

in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Training Command were formed. Since that time the RAF has made...

wartime RAF airfields in Norfolk and its position, just 3.3 miles (5.3 km) from the North Sea at Blakeney, made it a suitable site for RAF Coastal Command...

School RAF (May 1945 - January 1948) No. 254 Squadron RAF Coastal Command Flying Instructors School RAF (June - October 1945) became Coastal Command...

RAF. Barrass, M. B. (2015). "RAF Establishments – Greater London Area". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 12 May 2015. "RAF...

particular operation.[citation needed] This practice was inherited by the RAF from its Army and Navy predecessors upon its creation in 1918. Several squadrons...

the Interwar period. It opened in the 1939, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was transferred to RAF Technical Training Command in 1942 and closed in...

General Officer Commanding the RAF's Northern Area. The following year he became Air Officer Commanding Coastal Area, receiving a promotion to air vice...

in the community of Solva. It opened in the late summer of 1943, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was put into a care and maintenance status in November...

Zealand Air Force on 12 September 1945. Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall M. Brewer, 'New Zealand...

handed over to Coastal Command to monitor Soviet ships and submarines in the Norwegian Sea. Until 2010 it was the main base for the RAF's fleet of Hawker...

intended for use by an operational training unit of RAF Coastal Command with a secondary role as an RAF Bomber Command forward operating location. Three...

construction of an airfield for RAF Coastal Command to use as a coastal Operational Training Unit, was given for an area of fields to the west of the village...

boats that followed between 1930 and 1950 owe much to Porte's work. RAF Coastal Area Transatlantic flight John Alcock - British commander of the first non-stop...

undefended area of the Atlantic Ocean during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War. The region was beyond the reach of land-based RAF Coastal Command...

1930s, the site was taken over by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in May 1940 for use as a RAF Coastal Command Station. After the Second World War, the station...

stations such as RAF Ford and RAF Poling Radio Direction Finding (RDF) Chain Home station. RAF Thorney Island was transferred to RAF Coastal Command for the...