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Royal Air Force Brize Norton or RAF Brize Norton (IATA: BZZ, ICAO: EGVN) is the largest station of the Royal Air Force. [4] Situated in Oxfordshire, about 75 mi (121 km) west north-west of London, it is close to the village of Brize Norton and the towns of Carterton and Witney.
The RAF Tristar is a retired air-to-air refuelling tanker and transport aircraft, formerly in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). All airframes were retro-converted civilian Lockheed L-1011-500 TriStar airliners , previously operated by British Airways and Pan American World Airways , and entered service with the RAF in 1984.
Its chain of command is through the development division of the RAF Air Warfare Centre which comes under Chief of Staff Operations (COS(Ops)) HQ Air Command. [10] The unit is parented for administration purposes by RAF Brize Norton. JADTEU is manned by Personnel drawn from all three services, and a substantial number of Civilian Personnel.
Other RAF aircraft have transported members of the royal family and ministers, particularly for long-range trips for which The King's Flight and Royal Squadron planes were unsuitable. This most often involved Vickers VC10 C.1s, XR807 and XV106, of No. 10 Squadron, later subsumed by No. 101 Squadron based at RAF Brize Norton.
AW Ship Management arranged for civilians to board RAF flights to and from Brize Norton to RAF Ascension Island. The company had a package deal where passengers could travel in one direction on the RAF flights and the other on the RMS St Helena , which travelled between Saint Helena and Cape Town , South Africa until the opening of St Helena ...
The name Vespina is not used operationally; it is not used in its RAF F700 official logbook, nor is it used as its military call sign or flight number; it continues to be officially identified as ZZ336. ZZ336 Vespina is based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and is operated alongside the main fleet of RAF Voyagers by No. 10 Squadron RAF. [9]
In 2012, following the closure of RAF Lyneham, the wing moved to RAF Brize Norton. [3] [4] The wing operates as part of the RAF's A4 (Support) Force, sitting alongside the headquarters of the Air Mobility Force.
No. 24 Squadron (also known as No. XXIV Squadron) of the Royal Air Force is the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit (AM OCU).Based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, 24 Squadron is responsible for aircrew training on A400M Atlas and C-17 Globemaster.