Bases Flashcards

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RAFC CRANWELL

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Lincolnshire
  • Main base for recruitment and training.
  • No.3 flying school which provides elementary training for all RAF, Navy, and Army
  • AIR COMMODORE PETER J M SQUIRES
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RAF HONINGTON

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Suffolk / Bury St Edmunds / Thetford
  • Main depot for RAF Regiment. Home of Force Protection.
  • 1 / 15 /27 sqdn RAF Regiment. 1 /3 sqdn RAF Police
  • GROUP CAPTAIN MATT M RADNALL MA RAF
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RAF LOSSIEMOUTH

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Moray, north east Scotland
  • QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) Station defends UK airspace
  • Typhoon (Combat), Poseidon p8-a (ISTAR)
    51 sqdn RAF Regiment
  • GROUP CAPTAIN JIM WALLS DSO MA (HONS) RAF
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RAF MARHAM

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Norfolk
  • Previously home to main fighting force of Tornadoes, now fly the F35.
  • F35 Lightning
  • GROUP CAPTAIN IAN TOWNSEND ADC MA RAF
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RAF ODIHAM

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Hampshire
  • Home of the UK Chinook force. Operates 3 Chinook sqdns. Part of Joint Helicopter Command.
  • Chinook
  • GROUP CAPTAIN LEE TURNER
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RAF BENSON

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  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Oxfordshire
  • 2 Puma units and 1 mixed unit. Part of Joint Helicopter Command.
  • Chinooks, Pumas
  • GROUP CAPTAIN ADAM WARDROPE DFC MA RAF
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RAF AKROTIRI

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Cyprus
  • Forward operating base for operations in the middle east and the surrounding areas.
  • Griffin Helicopters
  • GROUP CAPTAIN CHRIS D SNAITH MA RAF
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RAF MOUNT PLEASANT

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Falkland Islands
  • Ensure security of the islands with a fighter and transport presence.
  • Typhoons, Voyager, Hercules, Chinook
  • UNKNOWN
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RAF GIBRALTAR

  • Where is it?
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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Gibraltar

  • Gibraltar
  • Ideal staging post for UK/NATO operations / exercises
  • Nothing permanently here
  • WING COMMANDER JOHN KANE MA MSC BA DIP RSA CERT ED RAF
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RAF WADDINGTON

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Lincolnshire
  • ISTAR Assets. Hub of intelligence. RAF’s eyes and ears.
  • Sentry, Sentinel, Wedgetail, Rivet Joint, Shadow, Reaper
  • GROUP CAPTAIN TOM BURKE MA BSC RAF
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RAF BRIZE NORTON

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Oxfordshire
  • RAF transport hub. Provides global mobility and air to air refuelling services. Also has a parachute training school and display team.
  • Hercules, C17, Globemaster, Atlas, Voyager
    2sqn RAF Regiment
  • GROUP CAPTAIN DAN JAMES MA MENG RAF
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RAF ASCENSION

  • Where is it?
  • Purpose
  • What is based here? (Regiments, Aircraft)
  • Who is the station commander?
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  • Ascension Island, Atlantic Sea.
  • Staging post for half way to Falklands (4000m)
  • Jointly operated with US military
  • WING COMMANDER TINA JESSUP MSC MA BA (HONS) RAF
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