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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]
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
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Disbanded on 5 June 1953, the four Neptune aircraft of Vanguard Flight became the re-formed 1453 (Early Warning) Flight at RAF Topcliffe in Yorkshire. [8] Despite their innocuous public role, the Neptunes of 1453 Flight retained the full armament of the P2V-5 variant with nose, dorsal and tail turrets.
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RAF Leeming RAF Topcliffe: Formed by merging 405 and 408 Squadron Conversion Fights. Trained Canadian aircrew. 1660 HCU Oct 42–Nov 46 Lancaster I/II/III Halifax II Manchester I Mosquito XIX Stirling I/III Oxford I Spitfire Vc Hurricane IIC Lysander I de Havilland Puss Moth: RAF Swinderby: Formed by merging 61, 97, 106 and 7 Squadron ...
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 ...