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Royal Air Force Syerston, [2] commonly known simply as RAF Syerston (ICAO: EGXY), is a Royal Air Force station in the parish of Flintham, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. Opened in 1940, it was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber base during the Second World War , operating Vickers Wellingtons , Avro Manchesters , and the Avro ...
304 Squadron was created on 23 August 1940 at RAF Bramcote, and from 1 December 1940 it operated from RAF Syerston, as a part of No. 1 Bomber Group (along with No. 305 Squadron created at the same time). It was declared ready for operations with Vickers Wellington Mk I medium bombers on 24 April 1941. The personnel included 24 entirely Polish ...
VX770 was the first prototype Vulcan. It had first flown with Avon engines, and had later been fitted with Sapphires.More recently, it had been fitted with Rolls-Royce Conway engines; on the day of the accident it was flying from the Rolls-Royce airfield at Hucknall to test the Conways.
Air Officer Commanding Air Cadets & Commandant Air Training Corps, air commodore, RAF Syerston [1] Air Cadet Organisation (ACO) Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets (GVC AC) Air Training Corps (ATC) [1] Air Experience Flights (AEFs) — Chipmunk T10 elementary trainer No. 1 Air Experience Flight RAF (1 AEF), RAF Manston
The Royal Air Force was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the third independent air force in the world after the Mexican Air Force (established 5 February 1915) [17] and the Finnish Air Force (established 6 March 1918), [18] by merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [19]
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Inspector-General of the RAF (1964–1967) Flying Training Command (1961–1964) No. 1 Group (1956–1959) RAF Coningsby (1951–1952) RAF Pocklington (1943) RAF Syerston (1942–1943) No. 50 Squadron (1940–1942) Battles / wars: Second World War: Awards: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire
The school reformed on 1 October 1934 as part of No. 23 Group at its previous home of RAF Digby, now equipped with Tutors for basic training and Hawker Harts & Furies for the service training phase. In 1936, Hawker Audaxes were added and in September 1937 the school moved to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire , to move it away from the likely area ...