RAF Gan information

Royal Air Force Gan, commonly known as RAF Gan, is a former Royal Air Force station on Gan island, the southern-most island of Addu Atoll, which is part...

strategically established RAF Gan, a Royal Air Force station, on Gan Island in the Addu Atoll. The island, now known as Gan International Airport, served...

Air Force (RAF), becoming Royal Air Force Station Gan or RAF Gan. It was a British military airbase until 1976, used as a staging post for RAF aircraft...

Force in 1957 and became “RAF Station Gan,” an airfield that would be used intermittently until 1971. The FAA airfield on Gan in theory could handle all...

premiership and later presidency. Nasir was keen on expelling the British from RAF Gan and seeking independence from them. Nasir also did not want to give this...

Look up Gan, gan, or -GAN in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to: Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally...

wartime RAF Gan airfield in the southernmost Addu Atoll, employing hundreds of locals. Maldives granted the British a 100-year lease on Gan that required...

strategically established RAF Gan, a Royal Air Force station, on Gan Island in the Addu Atoll. The island, now known as Gan International Airport, served...

from RAF Gan to home base RAF Changi at the end of a two-week detachment providing SAR cover for Transport Command aircraft transiting through RAF Gan. GDF...

RAF from January 1967 to March 1976, when they were disposed of, being the first MK 2s available for second-hand purchase. They were based at RAF Gan...

transferred to the Royal Air Force as RAF Gan, before being closed down in 1975. The island is now the site of Gan International Airport. The cosmopolitan...

military presence from the Indian Ocean, not including the airfield at RAF Gan to the north of Diego Garcia in the Maldives (which remained open until...

later, the United Kingdom obtained permission to reestablish its wartime RAF Gan airfield in the southernmost Addu Atoll, employing hundreds of locals....

This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...

Ibrahim Nasir wanted to cut ties with Britain, seeking both to close the RAF Gan and seek independence from the British. This was not looked at favourably...

from bases in the Indian Ocean (RAF Gan in the Maldives), Middle East (RAF Khormaksar in Aden) and Mediterranean (RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus) en route to...

didn't tell him about his removal of power and Amin arrived by flight to RAF Gan and headed to Malé where Ibrahim Didi and Faamludheyri Kilegefaanu took...

fish, the islands' main export, and the closure of the British air base RAF Gan. As a result, the Nasir regime began to lose popularity, and in 1978 he...

range flights. These included non-stop flights from the UK to Nairobi, RAF Gan and Singapore. Other aircraft refuelled by Valiants at this time included...

requirements of the RAF. Among its first stations assigned may have been RAF Gan, transferred from Far East Air Force. It was renamed as RAF Support Command...

and the unit responsible for maintaining the Skynet ground station at RAF Gan – 6 SU – were both transferred to the command of the Air Officer Commanding...

reestablish its wartime RAF Gan airfield in the southernmost Addu Atoll. Maldives granted the British a 100-year lease on Gan that required them to pay...

been installed in transportable cabins, originally destined for RAF Gan (Maldives) or RAF Episkopi (Cyprus). Though hardstandings were constructed at the...

Dheythere), built on the island's eastern coast by the British based at RAF Gan as defense against Axis powers. Some notable beaches of the island include...

as its capital. This occurred after Ibrahim Nasir intended to close the RAF Gan and expel the British. Ibrahim Nasir, along with army personnel, subsequently...