Site sold and station buildings demolished, redeveloped for commercial and residential use.
RAF Locking was a Royal Air Force station near the village of Locking and about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England. During the period 1939 to 2000, the station trained tens of thousands of engineers in the maintenance of aircraft then radar, radio and computers.
RAFLocking was a Royal Air Force station near the village of Locking and about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England. During...
United Kingdom RAFLocking, a former Royal Air Force base Locking Castle, a former castle Brian Locking (born 1938), rock guitarist Norm Locking (1911–1995)...
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...
undertaken at several RAF stations including RAF Cosford, RAF Yatesbury, RAF Compton Bassett, RAF St Athan, RAF Hereford and RAFLocking. Training took 18...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Locking Castle was a castle that once stood on Carberry Hill near the site of RAFLocking in Locking in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England...
Eric Stanley Lock, DSO, DFC & Bar (19 April 1919 – 3 August 1941) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World...
in 1965, with the Radar and Wireless training school transferring to RAFLocking. In 1969 the wooden huts were demolished and the land returned again...
Parachute Training School RAF Movements School RAFLocking No. 1 Radio School RAF Halton No. 1 School of Technical Training (1SofTT) RAF Cosford No. 2 School...
Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
Henlow and RAF Debden, Nos 22, 24, and 27 Groups, No. 1 School of Technical Training RAF at Halton, No. 1 Radio School RAF at RAFLocking, No. 2 School...
Cardiff Bay (28 December 1997) Christ Church, Oxford (4 January 1998) RAFLocking (11 January 1998) Durham (18 January 1998) West Dean College, Chichester...
stood up at RAF Leuchars on 6 September 2010, making Leuchars the second RAF base to operate the Typhoon. On 20 March 2011 ten Typhoons from RAF Coningsby...
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...
VB, like the Bren light machine gun, used a locking tilting breechblock. Unlike the Bren, the VB locked its breech only at the last moment of forward...
and has been in the RAF since 2009. McNally initially played rugby solely for the Royal Air Force, but in 2012 he was posted to RAF Brize Norton allowed...
Royal Air Force Lakenheath or RAF Lakenheath (IATA: LKZ, ICAO: EGUL) is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Lakenheath in Suffolk, England,...
Royal Air Force Fylingdales or more simply RAF Fylingdales is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is Vigilamus...
used by RAF advanced flying training units. Initially it was the base for No. 81 Operational Training Unit RAF (81 OTU) within No. 93 Group RAF (93 Gp)...
Flight and Air Engineers Memorial RAFLocking Memorial RAF Medical Services Memorial RAF Physical Training Instructors RAF Search and Rescue Memorial Rail...
at Cranwell operated until October 1952 before being transferred to RAFLocking. Entrance to the scheme involved a highly competitive exam, intelligence...
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