Global Information Lookup Global Information

RAF Barford St John information


RAF Barford St John
Near Bloxham, Oxfordshire in England
Aerial view of RAF Barford St John during 2011
RAF Barford St John is located in Oxfordshire
RAF Barford St John
RAF Barford St John
Shown within Oxfordshire
Coordinates52°00′13″N 001°21′36″W / 52.00361°N 1.36000°W / 52.00361; -1.36000
TypeRoyal Air Force station (US Visiting Forces)
CodeBJ[1]
Site information
OwnerMinistry of Defence
OperatorUnited States Air Force
Controlled byUS Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa
Formerly
RAF Flying Training Command
RAF Bomber Command
* No. 92 (OTU) Group RAF
ConditionOperational
Site history
Built1941 (1941)
In use1941 – 1946 (Royal Air Force)
1951 – present (US Air Force)
Airfield information
Elevation120 metres (394 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
09/27 1,670 metres (5,479 ft) Asphalt
16/34 1,215 metres (3,986 ft) Asphalt
02/20 1,210 metres (3,970 ft) Asphalt
Notes: Flying ceased in 1946

Royal Air Force Barford St John or more simply RAF Barford St John is a Royal Air Force station just north of the village of Barford St. John, Oxfordshire, England. It is now a non-flying facility, operated by the United States Air Force as a communications centre with many large communications aerials, and is a satellite of RAF Croughton.

  1. ^ Falconer 2012, p. 46.

and 24 Related for: RAF Barford St John information

Request time (Page generated in 1.2472 seconds.)

RAF Barford St John

Last Update:

Royal Air Force Barford St John or more simply RAF Barford St John is a Royal Air Force station just north of the village of Barford St. John, Oxfordshire...

Word Count : 501

Barford St John

Last Update:

Barford St. John is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barford St. John and St. Michael, in the Cherwell district, in the county...

Word Count : 489

Death of Harry Dunn

Last Update:

following a review of safety around both RAF Croughton and RAF Barford St John in Oxfordshire. The road from RAF Croughton to Croughton village was given...

Word Count : 6770

List of Royal Air Force stations

Last Update:

Pembrey Sands Tain Aberporth Boscombe Down Hebrides St. Athan West Freugh Alconbury Barford St John Croughton Fairford Feltwell LN Menwith Hill Mildenhall...

Word Count : 2727

United States Air Force in the United Kingdom

Last Update:

England during February 1942. VIII BC was established at RAF Bomber Command Headquarters at RAF Daws Hill, in High Wycombe, on 22 February. With the end...

Word Count : 1734

List of Royal Air Force Glider units

Last Update:

Alan (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6. Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training...

Word Count : 169

List of United States Air Force installations

Last Update:

Air Force. Retrieved 14 January 2019. "Fact Sheets". RAF Lakenheath. Retrieved 2 July 2017. "RAF Menwith Hill – Primary Mission". Royal Air Force. Archived...

Word Count : 5188

List of United States Air Force communications squadrons

Last Update:

Detachment 1 at RAF Barford St John, United Kingdom 2005th Communications Wing history Detachment 7 at SHAPE, Belgium Google Books Detachment 1 at RAF Wethersfield...

Word Count : 1605

Grantham

Last Update:

missions in May 1943, the RAF Bomber Command's No. 5 Group and operation HQ were in St Vincents, a building later owned by Aveling-Barford and housing a district...

Word Count : 14520

History of St Neots

Last Update:

Surviving the Odds: the Story of the St Neots Quads, St Neots Museum, 25 February 2021 RWE AG, Little Barford Power Plant, on RWE website at [7] Joseph...

Word Count : 9007

Westminster Abbey

Last Update:

2004, p. 174. Weir 2011, pp. 16–19. Wilkinson & Knighton 2010, p. 77. Barford, Vanessa; Pankhurst, Nigel (18 November 2010). "Is Westminster Abbey the...

Word Count : 13182

Barbara Cartland

Last Update:

former residence of Cartland, named River Cottage, and located in Great Barford, Bedfordshire in which she resided between 1941 until 1949, will be honoured...

Word Count : 3053

Caistor St Edmund

Last Update:

married in St. Edmund's Church. Caistor St Edmund's War Memorial is located in St. Edmund's Churchyard and was unveiled in 1922 by Reverend John Warren....

Word Count : 564

Bedfordshire

Last Update:

(river crossing). Bedfordshire was historically divided into nine hundreds: Barford, Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Redbornestoke, Stodden, Willey...

Word Count : 2831

Aston Martin

Last Update:

(22 ha) facility in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, on the former site of RAF Gaydon, adjacent to the Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre. The old 3.6-acre...

Word Count : 9816

List of places in Norfolk

Last Update:

Baconsthorpe, Bacton, Bacton Green, Bagthorpe, Bale, Banham, Banningham, Barford, Barmer, Barney, Barnham Broom, Barningham Green, Barroway Drove, Barton...

Word Count : 1256

Guanine nucleotide exchange factor

Last Update:

1016/S0092-8674(00)81756-0. PMID 9790532. Yang J, Zhang Z, Roe SM, Marshall CJ, Barford D (September 2009). "Activation of Rho GTPases by DOCK exchange factors...

Word Count : 2253

List of The Archers characters

Last Update:

have another husband, they happily resumed their relationship. Christine Barford née Archer, formerly Johnson (born 21 December 1931) (Lesley Saweard, formerly...

Word Count : 17114

1942 Birthday Honours

Last Update:

Engineer, Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd. Gaston Victor Leverett, Foreman, Aveling-Barford Ltd. Cecil Herbert Lockyer, Skilled Workman, Class I, General Post Office...

Word Count : 20812

2018 New Year Honours

Last Update:

Elizabeth Ann Lovesey. For services to education and the community in Great Barford, Bedfordshire. Deborah Karen Lovett (BASS), Director of Export and Trade...

Word Count : 21132

Timeline of motor vehicle brands

Last Update:

Simca Germany: Auto Union, Bungartz Butz Japan: Ohta Jidosha UK: Aveling-Barford, British Salmson, Rytecraft France: Talbot-Lago Germany: Henschel UK: Autovia...

Word Count : 3621

Daimler Company

Last Update:

RAF 1 and 1a air-cooled V8s, the RAF 4 and 4a V12s, the Le Rhone rotary, and the Bentley BR2 rotary alongside other manufacturers. Production of RAF 4...

Word Count : 12854

Cringleford

Last Update:

Squadron RAF Corporal William A. C. Bond (1919–1944), No. 614 Squadron RAF Lance-Corporal Percy H. J. Clark (d.1941), Royal Pioneer Corps St. Peter's...

Word Count : 561

TVR

Last Update:

Reece Mews, South Kensington, London. Its owner was James Boothby, an ex-RAF pilot. After re-establishing a distributor partnership with TVR, the American...

Word Count : 8758

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net