RAF Yatesbury is a former Royal Air Force airfield near the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Calne. It was an important training establishment in the First and Second World Wars and until its closure in 1965. For a time in the 1950s, part of the site became RAF Cherhill.
RAFYatesbury is a former Royal Air Force airfield near the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Calne. It...
Yatesbury today has a population of about 150. Whilst having no shops or amenities, the village is on National Cycle Route 403. It is noted for RAF Yatesbury...
circuit. One correspondent said that a man named Dickie Lyle was at RAFYatesbury in 1941, and he drew a version of the diagram as a face when the instructor...
with RAFYatesbury that was constructed partly within the parish of Compton Bassett in 1916. During the Second World War, RAFYatesbury and RAF Compton...
000 PoWs could escape from Le Marchant, who would proceed to seize RAFYatesbury and gain access to equipment including aircraft and armoured vehicles...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
taken by train to RAF Hunmanby Moor, near Filey, Yorkshire, for two month’s initial training. Powe was later relocated to RAFYatesbury, Wiltshire, for...
RAF Compton Bassett was opened as a communications training station in 1940, on farmland between Compton Bassett and Calne. Like nearby RAFYatesbury...
undertaken at several RAF stations including RAF Cosford, RAFYatesbury, RAF Compton Bassett, RAF St Athan, RAF Hereford and RAF Locking. Training took...
volunteered for service in the R.A.F. His request for flight duties was refused and instead he was posted to R.A.FYatesbury where he was assigned to the...
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included RAF Signals Command, which was later reduced to group status and incorporated into RAF Strike Command. Nos 26 and No. 60 Group RAF were established...
10 Elementary Training School and Reserve Flying Training Centre at RAFYatesbury in Wiltshire. It was run by the British Aeroplane Company. He was assigned...
Havilland Dragon Rapide (R5929) was operating a training flight out of RAFYatesbury. The aircraft stalled at low altitude and crashed near the village,...
training at No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School at RAFYatesbury, Wiltshire, before moving to RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, for advanced flying training...
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...
School, the RAF Regiment Light Anti-Aircraft Gunnery School at Watchet, radio schools at Yatesbury and Compton Bassett, the Police Depot at RAF Netheravon...
Wolverhampton University Air Squadron Yatesbury University Air Squadron Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron – RAF Linton-on-Ouse Air Experience Flights...
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