List of Royal Air Force bases
The list contains active bases of the British Royal Air Force (RAF). Some bases are only used by the British Army and Royal Navy , others are rented to the US Air Force . These are not listed here.
Warplanes
The fast jets are subordinate to the 1 Group :
- RAF Coningsby - Typhoon T1A / F2 / T3 / FGR4 (3 (F), 11 (F), 12, 29 (R) and 41 (R) Squadron)
- RAF Leeming - Hawk T1A (100 Squadron)
- RAF Lossiemouth - Typhoon T1A / F2 / T3 / FGR4 (1 (F), 2 (AC), 6 and 9 (B) Squadron)
- RAF Marham - F-35B Lightning II (617 Squadron)
Reconnaissance aircraft
The aircraft for electronic warfare, air surveillance and ground operations control are subordinate to the 2 Group :
- RAF Waddington - E-3D Sentry AEW1 , RC-135V / W Airseeker , Sentinel R1 , Shadow R1 (5 (AC), 8, 14, 39, 51 and 54 (R) Squadron)
Transport aircraft
The transport planes and tankers are also subordinate to the 2 Group :
- RAF Brize Norton - Atlas C1 , Voyager KC2 / KC3 , Hercules C4 / C5 , C-17 Globemaster III (10, 24, 30, 47, 70, 99, 101 and 206 (R) Squadron)
Transport helicopter
The transport helicopters are subordinate to the Joint Helicopter Command .
- RAF Benson - Puma HC1 , Chinook HC4 (28, 33, 230 Squadron)
- RAF Odiham - Chinook HC2 / HC3 / HC4 / HC6 (7, 18 and 27 Squadron)
Training aircraft and helicopters
The RAF training associations are subordinate to the 22 Group , but in some cases there are common facilities for all three armed forces:
- RAF Barkston Heath - Firefly
- RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow - Tutor (57 (R) Squadron)
- RAF Benson tutor
- RAF Church Fenton - Tutor (85 (R) Squadron)
- RAF Cranwell - King Air B200, Tutor (16 (R), 45 (R), 55 (R) and 115 (R) Squadron)
- RAF Linton-on-Ouse Tutor, Tucano T1 (72 (R) and 76 (R) Squadron)
- RAF Scampton - The Red Arrows (Hawk T1)
- RAF Shawbury - Juno HT1 , Jupiter HT1 (60 (R) Squadron)
- RAF Valley - Hawk T2 (4 (R), 25 (R) Squadron), Jupiter HT1 (202 (R) Squadron)
- RAF Wittering - Vigilant motor glider
Others
- RAF Boulmer - no more airfield, air defense operations center
- RAF Coningsby - Battle of Britain Memorial Flight ( Spitfire , Hurricane , Lancaster )
- RAF Honington - no more airfield, u. a. Headquarters of the RAF regiment
- RAF Northolt - BAE 146 CC2 / C3 , Agusta 109 (32 (The Royal) Squadron, former Queens Flight )
Permanent bases outside the UK
- RAF Akrotiri ( Cyprus ), Griffin HAR2 (84 Squadron)
- Creech Air Force Base ( Nevada ), MQ-9 Reaper (39th Squadron) - ground station, drones themselves fly in Afghanistan, as of 2012 RAF Waddington became home to the 13th Squadron
- RAF Ascension ( Ascension )
- Diego Garcia ( British Indian Ocean Territory )
- RAF Gibraltar ( Gibraltar )
- RAF Mount Pleasant ( Falkland Islands ), Voyager / Hercules, Typhoon, Chinook (1312, 1435, 1564 Flights)
Civil airports with departments of the RAF
Legend
The letters after the squadron numbers are abbreviations with the following meanings: F = Fighter, AC = Army Cooperation, R = Reserve - the latter depending on the assignment, training or test or evaluation squadron. As of April 1, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ UK receives final Airseeker, Janes, September 29, 2017 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
