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RAF Castel Benito (called originally in Italian "Tripoli-Castel Benito Airport") was an airport of Tripoli created by the Italians in Italian Libya. Originally, it was a small military airport named Castel Benito, but it was enlarged in the late 1930s and was later used by the British RAF after 1943. It was called RAF Castel Benito by the Allies.
RAF Castel Benito (later RAF Idris) was a Royal Air Force station near Tripoli in Libya between 1943 and 1966.
RAFCastelBenito (called originally in Italian "Tripoli-CastelBenito Airport") was an airport of Tripoli created by the Italians in Italian Libya. Originally...
by the Italians in Italian Libya in the early 1930s. It was called RAFCastelBenito by the Allies after 1943. Originally, it was a small military airport...
airfield was later used by the British Royal Air Force and named RAFCastelBenito, changing to RAF Idris in 1952. In the 1950s and 1960s the airport was known...
beginning in the 2028 Atlantic hurricane season RAF Idris, an airport in Libya also called RAFCastelBenito Cadair Idris, a mountain in Gwynedd, Wales, meaning...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
operated by No. 158 Squadron RAF was departing for the United Kingdom when it crashed on takeoff from RAFCastelBenito in Libya after the wing caught...
departing Cairo for England, resulting in a belly landing being made at RAFCastelBenito in Tripoli Repairs took until 3 June 1946, when it departed on the...
flight from RAF Holmsley South to Palam, Delhi India via RAFCastelBenito, Libya. The aircraft had low fuel pressure and attempted to return to RAF Holmsley...
on 16 August 1942. The squadron arrived at RAF Ismailia, Egypt, and began training with Royal Air Force (RAF) and South African Air Force Douglas Boston...
recorded on strength on 1 December. It struck at targets east of RAFCastelBenito on 19 December 1942. On 18 January 1943 it was forced to abandon its...
crew and 29 of the 30 passengers were killed. The aircraft also carried the RAF serial number XF629 allotted to this aircraft for use during trooping flights...
RAF Biggin Hill. He served in this command from December 1940 to June 1941. He later served in the Middle East, as airfield commander at RAFCastel Benito...
Royal Air Force Greenham Common or more simply RAF Greenham Common is a former Royal Air Force station in the civil parishes of Greenham and Thatcham...
Royal Air Force Cottesmore or more simply RAF Cottesmore is a former Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England, situated between Cottesmore and Market...
Royal Air Force Welford or more simply RAF Welford is an active Royal Air Force station in Berkshire, England. The station is located approximately 6...
airfield known as RAF Deversoir built before World War II. A helicopter unit with SA-342 Gazelle helicopters is based here. The remaining RAF units vacated...
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