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Royal Air Force Topcliffe or RAF Topcliffe (ICAO: EGXZ) is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England.. It was established as a RAF Bomber Command station in 1940. The British Army took over a large part of the site in 1974 and the airfield became an enclave within Alanbrooke Barracks.
The barracks were established, on the site of the former RAF Topcliffe airbase, in 1974, as an ordnance field park. [2] The barracks were named Alanbrooke Barracks after Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, a former Royal Artillery officer, when 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery took over the site in 1977. [3]
The squadron was again reformed on 1 July 1953 as a maritime reconnaissance unit at RAF Topcliffe, flying Lockheed P-2 Neptunes until 28 February 1957. The following year, on 1 September, the squadron re-emerged at RAF Colerne as a transport squadron, flying the Handley Page Hastings previously operated by No. 511 Squadron RAF , and ...
RAF Topcliffe: England: North Yorkshire: Former larger RAF station, now an enclave within the British Army's Alanbrooke Barracks, with the airfield retained by the RAF and used by No. 645 Volunteer Gliding Squadron teaching Air Cadets to fly the Grob Viking. [30] RAF Valley: Wales: Isle of Anglesey
115 Squadron trains flying instructors for all three branches of the British Armed Forces. 207 Squadron trains both RAF and Royal Navy pilots on the F-35 Lightning. OCUs are monitored by the RAF's Central Flying School to maintain training standards. Training is delivered by qualified flying instructors (QFIs) and qualified weapons instructors ...
RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Hutton Cranswick; L. ... RAF Thornaby; RAF Topcliffe; W. RAF Wombleton This page was last edited on 21 June 2014, at 04:31 (UTC). ...
Topcliffe is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the River Swale , on the A167 road and close to the A168 . It is about 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Thirsk and 11 miles (18 km) south of the county town of Northallerton .
Whitley bomber, 77 Squadron, RAF Topcliffe, November 1940. The squadron was reformed on 14 June 1937, at RAF Finningley [2] from 'B' Flight of No. 102 Squadron.It operated the Hawker Audax until November 1937, then re-equipped with the Vickers Wellesley.