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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).
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 ...
Upon the entry of the United States into WW2, a number of Royal Air Force Class A bases were transferred to the U.S. Eighth Air Force for use as heavy bomber bases, with the RAF units formerly occupying them being redeployed to other RAF bomber airfields, and U.S. Army Engineer Units constructed more airfields to this standard, or brought ...
RAF Stories: the first 100 years of the Royal Air Force Hawker Siddeley Gnat T.1: XR977: 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
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 ...
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 ...
Royal Air Force Keevil or more simply RAF Keevil is a former Royal Air Force station, now controlled by the Army Air Corps. It lies between the villages of Keevil and Steeple Ashton, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of the town of Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, England. The airfield was built on a site previously earmarked for the purpose in the mid-1930s.
Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or more commonly RAF Lossiemouth (IATA: LMO, ICAO: EGQS) is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland. Lossiemouth is one of the largest and busiest fast-jet stations in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and known for its close proximity to flight training areas ...