RAF Fighter Command 1939-41 * No. 10 Group RAF * No. 11 Group RAF RAF Transport Command 1941- * No. 44 Group RAF
Site history
Built
1915 (1915)
In use
1916-1957 (1957)
Battles/wars
First World War European theatre of World War II Cuban Missile Crisis
Airfield information
Elevation
64 metres (210 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
11/27
1,994 metres (6,542 ft) Concrete
00/00
Concrete
Royal Air Force Filton or more simply RAF Filton is a former Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 5 miles (8 km) north of the city centre of Bristol, England.
Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company (later British Aircraft Corporation) whose works, now owned by BAE/Airbus, are situated on the south side of the main runway.
Royal Air Force Filton or more simply RAFFilton is a former Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 5 miles (8 km) north of...
Filton Airport or Filton Aerodrome (IATA: FZO, ICAO: EGTG) was a private airport in Filton and Patchway, within South Gloucestershire, 4 NM (7.4 km; 4...
the RAF Fighter Command order of battle at 15 September 1940, during the Battle of Britain. RAF Fighter Command Headquarters was located at RAF Bentley...
Crew Pool Unit RAF Ferry Training and Despatch Unit RAF Ferry Training Unit RAF Overseas Ferry Unit RAF Service Ferry Pilots Pool RAF Lake 1999, p. 68...
1930 at RAF Northolt No. 501 Squadron RAF from 1930 to 1933 at RAFFilton No. 600 Squadron RAF from 1929 to 1935 at RAF Hendon No. 601 Squadron RAF from...
the Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club, a flying club initially based at Filton Aerodrome. In 1929, Bristol Corporation took up the club's proposal to develop...
Group RAF; No. 44 Group RAF; No. 45 Group RAF; No. 46 Group RAF; No. 216 Group RAF; No. 229 Group RAF; No. 114 Wing RAF, and No. 116 Wing RAF at RAF Hendon...
Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
Battle of Britain, the defence of the UK's airspace was divided up within RAF Fighter Command into four Groups, each comprising several airfields and squadrons...
of the RAFFilton station commander. From April 1957 to September 1959 it housed the Joint Services School for Applied Linguistics and the RAF Chinese...
Hurricanes and other aircraft from RAF Colerne, RAF Fairwood Common. RAF Filton and RAF Pembrey damaged in air battles over the Bristol Channel ports during...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom...
1999, p. 64. Lake 1999, p. 171. Lake 1999, p. 172. Lake 1999, p. 173. Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6....
Squadron RAF Church Fenton Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron RAF Dyce Aberdeen University Air Squadron RAFFilton Bristol University Air Squadron RAF Hamble...
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