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The Type-C hangar is a specific design of aircraft hangar built by the Royal Air Force during its expansion period of the 1930s. The hangar type generally measured 300 feet (91 m) in length, with a width of 152 feet 5 inches (46.46 m), and a clear height of 35 feet 4 inches (10.77 m).
RAF Stories: the first 100 years of the Royal Air Force Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF-1) display mockup: n/a: RAF: First to the Future Short Sunderland MR.5: ML824: Code: MS:Z Supermarine Spitfire Vb: BL614: Code: ZD:F RAF Stories: the first 100 years of the Royal Air Force Westland Sea King HAR.3: XZ585: Code: A
Air Vice-Marshal Sir C J Quintin Brand: South West England and South Wales: 11 Group: RAF Uxbridge, [2] Hillingdon, Middlesex: Keith Park: South East England and London: 12 Group: RAF Watnall, [3] Nottinghamshire: Trafford Leigh-Mallory: East Anglia, the Midlands, Mid Wales and North Wales: 13 Group: RAF Newcastle, [4] Kenton Bar, Newcastle ...
RAF Lyneham was the Royal Air Force's principal transport hub, operating the modern Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules, and the older Lockheed C-130K Hercules. The airfield was designated as a Master Diversion Airfield; it was one of the primary airfields to which aircraft could divert in the eventuality of their home bases being closed due to ...
By 1936, the Royal Air Force Expansion Scheme had overseen a period of rapid increases both in terms of new squadrons and the development of new stations. [5] The former Brattleby site was one of many earmarked under the expansion programme, situated between three villages; Aisthorpe, Brattleby and Scampton, with its main entrance situated on the A15 road (Ermine Street) heading north from ...
The station is the base for air transport, air-to-air refuelling and military parachuting, with the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, Airbus A400M Atlas and Airbus Voyager operating from the station. Major infrastructure redevelopment began in 2010, ahead of the closure of RAF Lyneham in 2012, and Brize Norton became the sole air point of ...
Hangar 2, Grahame-White Factory interior, Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a in the foreground, FE.2b, Sopwith Camel and Fokker D.VII suspended from the ceiling. The Royal Air Force Museum is a National Museum, a Government non-departmental public body (NDPB) and also is a registered charity. The Royal Air Force Museum London is displayed over six ...
This list of Royal Air Force stations is an overview of all current stations of the Royal Air Force (RAF) throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. This includes front-line and training airbases , support, administrative and training stations with no flying activity, unmanned airfields used for training, intelligence gathering stations and an ...