RAF Gaydon information

Royal Air Force Gaydon or more simply RAF Gaydon is a former Royal Air Force station located 5.2 miles (8.4 km) east of Wellesbourne, Warwickshire and...

completion. Close by, on the site of former RAF V bomber base of RAF Gaydon, is the Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre, one of the Jaguar Land Rover engineering...

RAF V bomber base of RAF Gaydon. The British Motor Museum is also located on the same site. By the middle of the 1970s, the government had closed RAF...

which was formed at RAF Gaydon on 1 June 1955 before moving to RAF Wyton. Two more Valiant bases were established at RAF Marham and RAF Honington in 1956...

55-acre (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...

from RAF Gaydon. During the approach to land the other two engines flamed out. The aircraft crashed into a copse several miles from RAF Gaydon. Of the...

when the BAe Dominie T.1 s of No. 1 ANS from RAF Stradishall and the Varsities of No. 2 ANS from RAF Gaydon moved there. In 1970, a Varsity aircraft caught...

Navigation School between 1962 and 15 September 1965, when it transferred to RAF Gaydon.[citation needed] No. 16 Parachute Heavy Drop Company Royal Army Ordnance...

Royal Air Force operated Valiants from RAF Gaydon, RAF Finningley, RAF Honington, RAF Marham, RAF Wittering and RAF Wyton by: No. 7 Squadron – Reformed at...

1988, p. 103. Jefford, C. G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since...

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

Stroud, UK: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-4401-7. Wynn, Humphrey - RAF Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Forces, their Origins, Roles and Deployment 1946-69...

Havilland Vampire and the English Electric Canberra. He was also stationed at RAF Gaydon, and in East Anglia. This was followed by a four-year tour with 192 Squadron...

Heritage Driving Experience operations to it from their Gaydon facility based at the former RAF Gaydon. It currently (as of December 2017) also houses their...

17 December 1943 with the unit located at Wellesbourne Mountford with RAF Gaydon and Stratford used as a satellite. However, on 7 March 1944 the airfield...

Storage Units (ASU)s. List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons List of RAF Regiment units List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons List of Army Air...

operating companies. Partially within Kineton parish, from 1942 until 1977, RAF Gaydon operated as both a training unit and a front-line bomber base. In 1978...

became Officer Commanding No. 39 Squadron and then Station Commander at RAF Gaydon. He was appointed Director of Operations – Bomber and Reconnaissance in...

operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...

acres (260,000 m2) of grounds, on the Rover Group's Gaydon site in Warwickshire (the former RAF Gaydon airfield), and opened as the Heritage Motor Centre...

take-off from RAF Akrotiri, five killed. 2 October 1962 - XA934 Handley Page Victor B.1, 232 OCU, crashed on asymmetric approach to RAF Gaydon following engine...