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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 ...
This category is for Royal Air Force (RAF) station crests (used under fair use) ... File:RAF Gan crest.jpg; File:RAF Hornchurch badge.jpg; File:RAF Kai Tak Crest.jpg;
427 Squadron started as a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) bomber squadron formed at Croft, England on 7 November 1942 and spent its wartime entirely in England as a part of No. 6 Group RCAF, part of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command. 427 flew Vickers Wellingtons, the Mk IIIs and Mk Xs, from its first operational mission on 14 December 1942, a minelaying sortie to the Frisian Islands ...
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.
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.
For a full list, see the list of Royal Air Force aircraft independent flights. Bold listings are currently active RAF flights. Bold listings are currently active RAF flights. Battle of Britain Memorial Flight ( BBMF ) – at RAF Coningsby – 6x Spitfire (various marks), 2x Hurricane , 1x Lancaster , 1x Dakota , 2x Chipmunk T10
The former Royal Air Force Far East Air Force, more simply known as RAF Far East Air Force, was the Command organisation that controlled all Royal Air Force assets in the east of Asia . It was originally formed as Air Command, South East Asia in 1943 during the Second World War .
This list of Royal Air Force groups is an overview of all groups, current and former, of the Royal Air Force (RAF). An air force group is a high-level controlling organisational formation, subordinate only to command level. Individual groups within the Royal Air Force have overall command and responsibility for major operational tasks of the ...