Royal Air Force Honington or more simply RAF Honington (IATA: BEQ, ICAO: EGXH) is a Royal Air Force station located 6 mi (9.7 km) south of Thetford near Ixworth in Suffolk, England. It was used as a bomber station during the Second World War and through the Cold War, hosting Handley Page Victors and Hawker Siddeley (Blackburn) Buccaneers. RAF Honington has been the RAF Regiment depot since 1994.
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Royal Air Force Honington or more simply RAFHonington (IATA: BEQ, ICAO: EGXH) is a Royal Air Force station located 6 mi (9.7 km) south of Thetford near...
within the RAF as "The Regiment", "Rock Apes" or "Rocks". After basic training at RAF Halton, and a 20-week gunner course at RAFHonington, its members...
Honington could refer to: Honington, Lincolnshire Honington, Suffolk Honington, Warwickshire RAFHonington in Suffolk This disambiguation page lists articles...
over locations such as BAE Warton, RAFHonington and RAF Lossiemouth. On 28 February, nine Tornados flew out of RAF Marham for a diamond nine formation...
Lossiemouth from RAF Marham in Norfolk, with its Tornado GR1Bs. No. 48 Squadron RAF Regiment and their Rapiers left Lossiemouth for RAFHonington on 1 July 1996...
Thetford Heaths. The camp is a satellite station of RAFHonington. During the 1950s and 60s a part of RAF Barnham was set aside as high-security storage facility...
Dunfermline. McKeague joined the RAF Regiment in 2013 and was posted to No. II Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment based at RAFHonington after his initial Regiment...
Norton in Oxfordshire, RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, RAFHonington in Suffolk, RAF Odiham in Hampshire and RAF Northolt in West London. No. 11 Group is responsible...
2018, No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment, which provides protection to the Air Mobility Force, moved to the station from RAFHonington in Suffolk. No. 30 Squadron...
at RAFHonington and it deploys throughout the world to support RAF and UK defence missions. The RAF Police was formed on 1 April 1918, when the RAF was...
centred at RAFHonington which coordinates Force Protection, and RAF Leeming and RAF Wittering which have a support enabler role. Stations such as RAF Cranwell...
(RAuxAF) (based at RAFHonington) whose purpose is to protect RAF bases at home and abroad from ground attack. Part of No. 4 RAF Police Squadron, under...
Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit (TWCU) relocated its Tornados from RAFHonington to Marham for a period of six months while runway repairs were carried...
age of 10. Her father served in the Royal Air Force and was based at RAFHonington and her mother taught at a primary school in the town. Her mother's...
November 2007. p. 16428. "New Station Commander at RAFHonington". 24 February 2009. RAFHonington. Retrieved 29 July 2013. "SENIOR ROYAL AIR FORCE APPOINTMENTS"...
Force (RAF) on 15 January 1989. He served as officer commanding No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment. He went on to be Station Commander at RAFHonington in 2014...
countermeasures (ECM) pod used on aircraft such as the Blackburn Buccaneer at RAFHonington. It was also used in the Falklands War by the Avro Vulcan bomber during...
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