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The Spitfire on Thornaby Road The Airmen memorial at Thornaby on the site of the former RAF Thornaby. RAF Thornaby closed to flying in October 1958 [43] when the Hawker Hunters of 92 Squadron left for RAF Middleton St George, [44] the station was reduced to a care and maintenance level until being sold to the then Thornaby-on-Tees Borough ...
No. 608 Squadron was formed at Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire as No. 608 County of York (North Riding) Squadron, on 17 March 1930 as a day bomber squadron within the Auxiliary Air Force. Its initial equipment was the Avro 504 N and Westland Wapiti , which the squadron flew until they were replaced with Hawker Demon fighters in January 1937 ...
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 ...
RAF Wick; RAF Wig Bay; RAF Wigtown; RAF Winfield This page was last edited on 16 July 2018, at 23:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
RAF Gt Orton/RAF Wick/RAF Sumburgh (Dets.) No. 330 Squadron RAF: Short Sunderland: RAF Sullom Voe: No. 333 Squadron RAF: de Havilland Mosquito/Consolidated Catalina: RAF Sumburgh/RAF Leuchars/RAF Woodhaven: No. 521 (Meteorological) Squadron RAF: Lockheed Ventura/Supermarine Spitfire: RAF Skitten: No. 1693 (General Reconnaissance) Flight RAF [30 ...
No. 275 squadron was reformed at RAF Linton-on-Ouse as a sea and rescue Squadron to provide cover over the North Sea in March 1953 equipped with Sycamore HR.13 and HR.14 Helicopters, later relocating to RAF Thornaby on 18 November 1954 and remaining at Thornaby until October 1957 when the Squadron moved to RAF Leconfield.
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No. 607 Squadron was formed on 17 March 1930 at the then new airfield of RAF Usworth, County Durham [6] as a day bomber unit of the Auxiliary Air Force (AuxAF). [1] They became operational in the summer of 1933, having received their first aircraft in December 1932, flying Westland Wapitis.