When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. RAF Gan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Gan

    The loss of RAF Negombo meant that a replacement staging post was needed between its bases in the Middle East and Far East, and the location was virtually limited to Gan. Hence Royal Air Force Station Gan became established in the late 1950s as a stopover on the reinforcement route to the Far East Air Force based in Singapore. The previous ...

  3. List of accidents and incidents involving the Avro Shackleton

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and...

    [1] 15 May 1962 Shackleton MR.1 VP294 damaged beyond repair landing at RAF Gan. 8 August 1963 Shackleton MR.3 1718 of the South African Air Force crashed Wemmershoek Mountains, all 13 onboard killed. [1] 10 January 1964 Shackleton MR.3 XF710 crashed landed on Culloden Moor, Scotland following an engine fire. Crew all escaped and watched it burn ...

  4. No. 90 (Signals) Group RAF - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._90_(Signals)_Group_RAF

    This was to prove short-lived, however, for on 1 November 1973, 444 SU and the unit responsible for maintaining the Skynet ground station at RAF Gan – No. 6 Signals Unit RAF – were both transferred to the command of the Air Officer Commanding in Chief Near East Air Force (NEAF). At this time 444 SU and 6 SU formed part of the Defence ...

  5. List of Royal Air Force units & establishments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Royal_Air_Force...

    There have been many units with various tasks in the Royal Air Force (RAF), and they are listed here. A unit is an administrative term for a body, which can be larger or smaller than a flight or squadron, is given a specific mission, but does not warrant the status of being formed as a formal flight or squadron.

  6. List of former Royal Air Force stations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Royal_Air...

    London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...

  7. List of communications units and formations of the Royal Air ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communications...

    The CSE was formed 1 September 1946 at RAF Watton, equipped with Dominie and Tiger Moth, and disbanded there on 1 July 1965. [3] When the establishment disbanded, the Research Wing and civilian parts of the "..Installation Squadron became the RAF Signals Command Air Radio Laboratories, and the training and service elements of Installation ...

  8. Gan International Airport - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan_International_Airport

    The first aircraft, an RAF Westland Walrus biplane, landed on the crushed coral runway of Gan on 8 February 1943. In 1976, the RAF left Gan, having no further need for its facilities, and handed it over to the Maldives government. [1] The island and airfield was left to fall into disrepair for many years.

  9. No. 160 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._160_Squadron_RAF

    No. 160 Squadron RAF was formed at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire on 16 January 1942 as a heavy bomber [2] /reconnaissance unit equipped with Consolidated Liberator aircraft. The squadron was posted to India on 12 February 1942, but without its aircraft and crews, who remained in England for training at RAF Polebrook , Northamptonshire .