Royal Air Force Nicosia or more simply RAF Nicosia is a former Royal Air Force station on the island of Cyprus, built in the 1930s. The station served as Headquarters Royal Air Force Cyprus from 8 June to 29 July 1941.
The original principal airport for Cyprus, Nicosia International Airport, was built within the site of the RAF station. Both civil and military aviation on the island operated from the site, although the RAF disestablished the station in 1966.
The 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus led to the cessation of commercial operations from the airport, although the site is still owned by the British Ministry of Defence,[2] but is controlled by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus and used as a base by United Nations peace-keeping patrol helicopters.
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the countryside in preparation for major bombing. The Italians struck RAFNicosia in May 1941. Later that month, in support of the French defence of Syria...
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choose to attack the crowded airfields of Cyprus (RAF Akrotiri and RAFNicosia holding nearly the whole RAF strike force, with a recently reactivated and...
May 1967, equipped with FAW.9s. It was based at RAFNicosia, Cyprus until March 1964 when it moved to RAF Akrotiri. The squadron returned to Fighter Command...
Trust. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022. "RAFNicosia". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 10 June 2012. Royal Air Force...
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in February 1944 at RAFNicosia to train general reconnaissance and strike crews. No. 80 (French) Operational Training Unit RAF (80 OTU) 80 OTU was formed...
the UK retained two Sovereign Base Areas in Akrotiri and Dhekelia and an RAF air marshal was appointed as the Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas...
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and use by the RAF of bases in Iraq. On 1 December 1955 AHQ Levant started to transfer from RAF Habbaniya to Cyprus (probably RAFNicosia) and on 15 January...
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