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hero-in\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/\">Order of Battle<\/a> &middot; United Kingdom<\/div>\n<h1>Royal Air Force<\/h1>\n<div class=\"native\">Royal Air Force<\/div>\n<p class=\"sub\">The Royal Air Force invented the independent air force, and has spent a century arguing about what one is for &mdash; an argument that in 2026 has produced a fighter force a third the size of its 1990 self, a nuclear mission handed back after twenty-seven years, and a command that has just added the word Space to its name.<\/p>\n<div class=\"marks\">\n<div class=\"mcol\">\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"rondel\" viewBox=\"0 0 100 100\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Royal Air Force national marking: the roundel, red centre, white ring, blue outer\"><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"49\" fill=\"#1c3f94\"\/><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"29.4\" fill=\"#ffffff\"\/><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"19.6\" fill=\"#c8102e\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">National marking<b>The roundel: red centre, white ring, blue outer, in this form since 1947<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"rondel\" viewBox=\"0 0 100 100\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Royal Air Force low-visibility roundel: pale red centre and pale blue outer, no white\"><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"49\" fill=\"#7d93b5\"\/><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"24.5\" fill=\"#d4959b\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">Low-visibility<b>Pale red and pale blue with no white ring, worn on the grey front-line fleet such as the Typhoon<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"finflash\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 32\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Royal Air Force fin flash: red, white and blue, red leading\"><rect x=\"1\" y=\"4\" width=\"10\" height=\"24\" fill=\"#c8102e\"\/><rect x=\"11\" y=\"4\" width=\"10\" height=\"24\" fill=\"#ffffff\"\/><rect x=\"21\" y=\"4\" width=\"10\" height=\"24\" fill=\"#1c3f94\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">Fin flash<b>Red, white and blue, red leading<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>171<\/b><span>Combat aircraft<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>40<\/b><span>Active air bases<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1918<\/b><span>Founded<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>84<\/b><span>Types retired<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocred\">Photo: Cpl. Andy Benson \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence)<\/div>\n<div class=\"accent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Country<\/b>United Kingdom<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Founded<\/b>1918<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status<\/b>Active<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Headquarters<\/b>RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Commander<\/b>Sir Harv Smyth<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mfshare\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-btn\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><circle cx=\"18\" cy=\"5\" r=\"3\"\/><circle cx=\"6\" cy=\"12\" r=\"3\"\/><circle cx=\"18\" cy=\"19\" r=\"3\"\/><path d=\"M8.6 10.6l6.8-4M8.6 13.4l6.8 4\"\/><\/svg>Share<\/button><span class=\"mfsh-net\"><\/span><span class=\"mfsh-said\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"story\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The story<\/div>\n<h2>The Royal Air Force story: the first independent air force, and the argument about what it is for<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1918&ndash;1939: Trenchard, air control and the price of independence<\/h3>\n<p>The Royal Air Force came into existence at midnight on 1 April 1918, when the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were merged into a third armed service with its own ministry, its own uniform and its own seat at the strategic table. Nothing like it had existed anywhere. The immediate cause was the Gotha bomber raids on London in 1917 and the report that Jan Smuts wrote in response, which argued that air power had become an instrument in its own right rather than an auxiliary of armies and fleets. Every independent air force in the world descends from that argument. It is the single most important structural fact about the RAF, and it explains almost everything that follows &mdash; including the fact that the service has had to justify its separate existence, repeatedly and expensively, ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Independence was not secure in 1919. The Admiralty and the War Office both wanted their aviation back, and Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff for most of the 1920s, kept the RAF alive by making it cheap and by making it useful to the Empire. The instrument was air control: policing mandated and colonial territory by aeroplane rather than by garrison. At the Cairo Conference of 1921 Trenchard proposed that the RAF take over military command in Iraq, and on 1 October 1922 an airman directed all military operations in a country for the first time. The same method was used on the North-West Frontier, in Aden, Transjordan and Sudan. The RAF&rsquo;s own Air Power Review has since examined it honestly: the targeting held whole communities responsible for the acts of individuals, the bombing was inaccurate &mdash; in one November 1928 operation 102 of 182 bombs missed &mdash; and the effect wore off as populations learned to disperse and warn each other. The RAF&rsquo;s independence was bought, in part, by bombing villages. That belongs in the story.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1940&ndash;1945: the Dowding System, and 55,573 dead in Bomber Command<\/h3>\n<p>The Battle of Britain is the RAF&rsquo;s founding legend, and the truthful version is more impressive than the myth. What won it was not the Spitfire but the Dowding System: Chain Home radar, the Observer Corps, filter rooms, sector stations and a telephone network that turned a raid plot into an interception order in minutes. It was the world&rsquo;s first integrated air defence system and no other country had one. The RAF counts 2,945 aircrew as having flown in the battle between 10 July and 31 October 1940; 544 of them were killed during it, and 312 RAF ground personnel died on the ground. Roughly one in five of the aircrew were not British &mdash; 145 Poles, 127 New Zealanders, 112 Canadians, 88 Czechoslovaks and men from a dozen other countries. Both sides overclaimed victories wildly. Hugh Dowding and Keith Park, who had run the battle, were both removed from their posts within weeks of winning it, in the aftermath of the Big Wing dispute with Trafford Leigh-Mallory.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the part the RAF finds hardest to talk about. Bomber Command lost 55,573 aircrew killed out of roughly 125,000 who served &mdash; a death rate near 45 per cent, worse than any other major arm of the British forces in either world war, and worse than the chance a British infantry subaltern had on the Western Front. The Imperial War Museum&rsquo;s figures put it plainly: 51 per cent of aircrew were killed on operations, 12 per cent killed or wounded in accidents, 13 per cent taken prisoner, and 24 per cent came through unscathed. The area bombing directive of February 1942 and Arthur Harris&rsquo;s campaign against German cities killed hundreds of thousands of civilians; Dresden, on 13&ndash;15 February 1945, remains the argument&rsquo;s sharpest point. The argument has not been settled and this page will not settle it. What is not in dispute is how the crews were treated afterwards: no campaign medal until the Bomber Command Clasp was announced in December 2012, and no memorial until the one in Green Park was unveiled in June the same year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1948&ndash;1969: the V-force, Sandys and the deterrent given away<\/h3>\n<p>From 1955 the RAF held the British nuclear deterrent. The V-force &mdash; Valiant, Vulcan, Victor &mdash; carried Blue Danube, then Yellow Sun, then the Blue Steel stand-off missile, and for fourteen years the country&rsquo;s survival rested on bombers at fifteen minutes&rsquo; readiness. Two decisions ended that. Duncan Sandys&rsquo;s Defence White Paper of 1957 declared that missiles would replace manned fighters, cancelled a generation of British aeroplanes and did lasting damage to the industry. The American cancellation of Skybolt in December 1962 and the Nassau agreement that followed handed the deterrent to the Royal Navy, and when Polaris took over in 1969 the RAF&rsquo;s strategic role was finished. It kept tactical nuclear weapons &mdash; the WE.177 &mdash; until the last of them were withdrawn on 22 April 1998, after which Britain had no air-delivered nuclear weapon at all. That is the gap the 2025 F-35A decision closes.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1965&ndash;1991: TSR-2, the Cold War in Germany, and a war fought at fifty feet<\/h3>\n<p>TSR-2 is the other wound, and it is heavily mythologised. The aircraft first flew on 27 September 1964, was cancelled in the Budget of 6 April 1965, and the jigs and tooling were destroyed; two airframes survive, at Duxford and Cosford. What is documented is the decision, the stated cost grounds and the destruction of the tooling. What is not documented, and should not be asserted, is the long list of claims about deliberate sabotage and American pressure that has grown around it. Meanwhile the real RAF of the 1960s to 1980s was a large, unglamorous force in Germany: Canberras, then Phantoms, Buccaneers, Harriers and Jaguars flying at fifty feet under the weather, with Lightnings and later Tornado F3s on air defence. In 1982 Vulcans flew the Black Buck missions to Port Stanley, almost 6,600 nautical miles with up to eleven Victor tankers in the chain &mdash; the longest-range bombing raids anyone had flown. In 1991 the RAF put 157 aircraft into the Gulf and lost six Tornado GR1s in action in a fortnight of low-level airfield attacks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1991&ndash;2024: the expeditionary decades, and the aircraft that were not replaced<\/h3>\n<p>The quarter-century after 1991 was one long expeditionary campaign &mdash; the Iraqi no-fly zones, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Libya, and then Daesh &mdash; and it was fought by a force that kept shrinking. Over Libya in 2011 the RAF flew about 3,000 sorties and struck 640 targets with 945 people in theatre. Over Iraq and Syria from 2014 it struck roughly 1,400 targets in more than 10,000 sorties. But the equipment decisions of those years were brutal. The 2010 review retired the Harrier and the Nimrod MR2 together and cancelled the Nimrod MRA4, whose completed airframes were cut up at Woodford; the National Audit Office put the waste at 3.4 billion pounds and the United Kingdom then went nine years without a maritime patrol aircraft. The Sentry fleet went in 2021 before its replacement arrived. The Hercules went in 2023. The Defence Committee&rsquo;s 2023 report called the Wedgetail cut from five aircraft to three &quot;the most perverse&quot; decision in the 2021 command paper: a 40 per cent capability cut for a 12 per cent saving.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">2025&ndash;2026: a nuclear role returns, and a command changes its name<\/h3>\n<p>That is the RAF that 2025 and 2026 inherited. It has 31,392 regulars, 124 Typhoons of which 111 are in service, 47 F-35Bs shared with the Royal Navy, three Wedgetails, nine Poseidons, three Rivet Joints and eight C-17s. It has more combat aircraft on the books than at any point since 2019 and fewer than half the squadrons it had in 1990. Its fast-jet training pipeline still holds 48 of 119 students between courses. Its Red Arrows fly Hawk T1s built in the 1970s with no replacement yet chosen. Against that, 2025 and 2026 have brought real movement: the Strategic Defence Review of June 2025, the announced purchase of twelve F-35As alongside a decision to rejoin NATO&rsquo;s nuclear sharing mission &mdash; the first British air-delivered nuclear role since 1998 &mdash; Protector replacing Reaper, the first Wedgetail at Lossiemouth in May 2026, more than 8 billion pounds for the Global Combat Air Programme, and on 1 September 2026 Air Command becoming Air and Space Command. Whether a service of this size can do all of it at once is the question the next Parliament will answer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"pull\">Independence was not secure in 1919. The Admiralty and the War Office both wanted their aviation back, and Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff for most of the 1920s, kept the RAF alive by making it cheap and by making it useful to the Empire.<cite>Royal Air Force &middot; verified 2026-09-24<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"glance\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">At a glance<\/div>\n<h2>The Royal Air Force in numbers<\/h2>\n<div class=\"specgrid three\">\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Service<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Native name<\/dt>\n<dd>Royal Air Force<span class=\"gnote\">Motto &quot;Per Ardua ad Astra&quot; &mdash; through adversity to the stars. Known universally as the RAF<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Founded<\/dt>\n<dd>1 April 1918<span class=\"gnote\">The world&rsquo;s first independent air force, created by merging the Royal Flying Corps (1912) and the Royal Naval Air Service, on the recommendation of the Smuts report after the Gotha raids on London. Hugh Trenchard had been appointed the first Chief of the Air Staff on 18 January 1918<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Part of<\/dt>\n<dd>British Armed Forces<span class=\"gnote\">One of three services under the Ministry of Defence. The Fleet Air Arm belongs to the Royal Navy and the Army Air Corps to the British Army; the Lightning Force and the helicopter force are jointly manned<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Headquarters<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>Air and Space Command &mdash; RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire<\/li>\n<li>The Air Staff &mdash; Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">Air Command was redesignated Air and Space Command on 1 September 2026. High Wycombe is the operational headquarters; the Chief of the Air Staff and the Air Staff sit in Whitehall<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Chief of the Air Staff<\/dt>\n<dd>Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth<span class=\"gnote\">In post since 29 August 2025. A former Harrier pilot and weapons instructor, he commanded No. 4 Squadron and No. 1 Group and was the Ministry of Defence&rsquo;s first Director Space<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Secretary of State for Defence<\/dt>\n<dd>The Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP<span class=\"gnote\">Appointed 20 July 2026. The Chief of the Air Staff is accountable to the Secretary of State for the effectiveness, efficiency and morale of the RAF<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Strength<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Regular personnel<\/dt>\n<dd>31,392<span class=\"gnote\">UK Regular Forces at 1 July 2026, up 2.8 per cent on the year. All RAF service personnel including reserves: 35,978<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Trained strength<\/dt>\n<dd>27,851<span class=\"gnote\">Full Time Trained Strength at 1 July 2026: 6,997 officers and 20,854 other ranks. The Ministry of Defence no longer publishes an RAF workforce requirement, so no surplus or deficit against establishment can be calculated from the official tables<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Reserves<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and Royal Auxiliary Air Force &mdash; 3,097<\/li>\n<li>Serving ex-regular Air Force Reserve &mdash; 1,288<\/li>\n<li>Sponsored Reserve &mdash; 201<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">All at 1 July 2026. The Royal Auxiliary Air Force grew from 29 squadrons to 32 between 2025 and 2026, the only formation growth in the service<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Combat aircraft<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>Typhoon FGR4 and T3 &mdash; 124 on charge, 111 in service<\/li>\n<li>Lightning F-35B &mdash; 47, jointly manned with the Royal Navy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">At 1 April 2026. Typhoon holdings have fallen from 137 in 2024 as the Tranche 1 aircraft are scrapped; Lightning has risen from 35<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Fixed-wing aircraft<\/dt>\n<dd>507 across the armed forces<span class=\"gnote\">323 of them in service at 1 April 2026. The Ministry of Defence&rsquo;s equipment table is tri-service and does not split RAF from Royal Navy and Army holdings; almost all fixed-wing types in it are RAF<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Uncrewed aircraft<\/dt>\n<dd>189 across the armed forces<span class=\"gnote\">148 in service at 1 April 2026, including 16 Protector RG1 with nine in service. Reaper, which had been nine aircraft a year earlier, is gone<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Defence budget<\/dt>\n<dd>&pound;62.0 billion in 2025&ndash;26<span class=\"gnote\">Rising to &pound;79.1 billion by 2029&ndash;30. NATO put UK defence spending at 2.3 per cent of GDP in 2025 and expected 2.6 per cent in 2026; the commitments are 2.5 per cent by 2027, 3 per cent in the next Parliament and 3.5 per cent by 2035. No separate RAF budget line is published<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Recruitment and retention<\/dt>\n<dd>A formal inquiry, and a training pipeline that still holds students<\/p>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>2020&ndash;21: 161 women and ethnic minority candidates accelerated onto initial training ahead of others; 31 men missed a 5,000 pound joining bonus<\/li>\n<li>29 June 2023: the non-statutory inquiry reported; the Chief of the Air Staff apologised unreservedly and accepted all twelve recommendations<\/li>\n<li>1 June 2026: 48 of 119 fast-jet trainees were on holdover between courses or waiting for an operational conversion unit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">More than 300 personnel were held in the flying training pipeline in September 2022, and the Defence Committee called the delays &quot;completely unacceptable&quot; in 2023.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Infrastructure<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>RAF formations<\/dt>\n<dd>104 squadrons and equivalent units<span class=\"gnote\">At 1 April 2026: 43 flying support, 3 battlespace management, 23 air security and readiness, 11 communications and 24 engineering and logistics. A further 32 Royal Auxiliary Air Force units and 4 sponsored reserve units sit alongside them<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Flying squadrons<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>Combat air &mdash; 9<\/li>\n<li>Operational conversion and evaluation &mdash; 13<\/li>\n<li>Flying and operational training support &mdash; 7<\/li>\n<li>Air transport and air-to-air refuelling &mdash; 6<\/li>\n<li>Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance &mdash; 4<\/li>\n<li>Remotely piloted aircraft &mdash; 3<\/li>\n<li>Airborne command and control &mdash; 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">At 1 April 2026. Training squadrons fell from 10 to 7 in a year while conversion and evaluation units rose from 11 to 13<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Main flying stations<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>RAF Lossiemouth &mdash; Typhoon, Poseidon, Wedgetail<\/li>\n<li>RAF Coningsby &mdash; Typhoon, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight<\/li>\n<li>RAF Marham &mdash; Lightning Force<\/li>\n<li>RAF Brize Norton &mdash; Atlas, Voyager, Globemaster<\/li>\n<li>RAF Waddington &mdash; Rivet Joint, Shadow, Protector, Red Arrows<\/li>\n<li>RAF Odiham &mdash; Chinook<\/li>\n<li>RAF Valley &mdash; fast-jet training<\/li>\n<li>RAF Benson, Shawbury, Cranwell, Wittering, Leeming, Honington, Northolt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">Overseas: RAF Akrotiri in the Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus, RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falklands, RAF Gibraltar and RAF Ascension Island. Stations, not bases &mdash; the prefix is part of the name<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Quick Reaction Alert<\/dt>\n<dd>Two stations, 24 hours a day<span class=\"gnote\">Typhoons at RAF Lossiemouth cover the north and RAF Coningsby the south, with Voyager tanker support from Brize Norton. A separate Typhoon detachment holds QRA in the Falkland Islands<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Display teams<\/dt>\n<dd>The Red Arrows<span class=\"gnote\">The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, based at RAF Waddington, flying Hawk T1s expected to last to the end of the 2029 display season. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby flies Spitfires, Hurricanes, a Lancaster and a Dakota<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Space<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>No. I Space Operations Squadron &mdash; RAF High Wycombe<\/li>\n<li>No. II Space Warning Squadron &mdash; RAF Fylingdales<\/li>\n<li>No. III Space Effects Squadron &mdash; announced 23 September 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">Air Command became Air and Space Command on 1 September 2026. The RAF has been in the business since the ballistic missile early warning station at Fylingdales in 1963 and the launch of Skynet 1A in 1969<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"structure\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Structure<\/div>\n<h2>How the Royal Air Force is organised<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Four groups under Air and Space Command. <span class=\"imp\">No. 1 Group holds the front line &mdash; fast jets, transport, tankers and surveillance &mdash; No. 11 Group commands the air operations and the air defence of the United Kingdom, No. 2 Group runs the bases and the support force, and No. 22 Group trains everyone.<\/span> The Lightning Force is manned jointly with the Fleet Air Arm, and the Chinooks serve under Joint Helicopter Command rather than under the RAF alone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"org\">\n<div class=\"cmdcard\"><span class=\"cface mono\">SH<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cmdtx\"><span class=\"crank\">Air Chief Marshal<\/span><b>Sir Harv Smyth<\/b><span class=\"cmeta\">Chief of the Air Staff &middot; in office since 2025<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cmdorg\"><span>Air and Space Command<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgrow\">\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>The Air Staff<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Ministry of Defence, Whitehall<\/div>\n<p>The Chief of the Air Staff and the Air Staff inside the Ministry of Defence: policy, programme, budget and the RAF&rsquo;s seat among the Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Headquarters<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Air and Space Command<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">RAF High Wycombe<\/div>\n<p>The RAF&rsquo;s operational headquarters, renamed from Air Command on 1 September 2026. The four groups report to it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Front line<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>No. 1 Group<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\"><\/div>\n<p>The combat air force, the air mobility force, the surveillance and reconnaissance force and the Air and Space Warfare Centre: Typhoon, Lightning, Poseidon, Wedgetail, Rivet Joint, Voyager, Atlas and C-17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Support<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>No. 2 Group<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\"><\/div>\n<p>The people and the places: the air bases themselves, force protection, the RAF Regiment, the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, medical, logistics and communications units.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Operations<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>No. 11 Group<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\"><\/div>\n<p>Command and control of air operations worldwide, the air defence of the United Kingdom through the National Air and Space Operations Centre, and 83 Expeditionary Air Group in the Middle East. Re-formed on 1 November 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Training<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>No. 22 Group<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">RAF Cranwell<\/div>\n<p>Officer, recruit and aircrew training for the RAF and specialist training for all three services, the RAF College and the Air Cadets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Joint<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Joint Helicopter Command<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">JHC<\/div>\n<p>A tri-service command in which the RAF&rsquo;s Chinook squadrons serve alongside Army and Royal Navy helicopters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"fleet\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In service<\/div>\n<h2>What the Royal Air Force flies today<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Every type on charge, linked to its Book of Beasts page where one exists. <span class=\"imp\">Counts are aircraft on the books, not aircraft available on a given day.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tscroll\">\n<table class=\"oobt fleet\">\n<colgroup>\n<col class=\"c-th\">\n<col class=\"c-type\">\n<col class=\"c-role\">\n<col class=\"c-num\">\n<col class=\"c-yr\">\n<col class=\"c-units\">\n<col><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Role<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align:right\">In service<\/th>\n<th>Since<\/th>\n<th>Units<\/th>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph2\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Multirole fighter<\/td>\n<td>124<\/td>\n<td>2003<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>124 airframes on charge at 1 April 2026, of which 111 were in service &mdash; down from 137 on charge in 2024. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>At 1 July 2025 the fleet was four Tranche 1, 67 Tranche 2 and 40 Tranche 3 aircraft, and 26 of the 30 Tranche 1 machines had already been scrapped.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph3\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lockheed Martin Lightning F-35B<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Stealth multirole fighter, short take-off and vertical landing<\/td>\n<td>47<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>47 on charge at 1 April 2026, all of them counted as in service, up from 35 two years earlier.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph4\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Boeing Poseidon MRA1<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>2020<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Nine on charge and nine in service at 1 April 2026 &mdash; the figure has not moved since 2022.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph5\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Boeing Wedgetail AEW1<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airborne early warning and control<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>2026<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Three aircraft. Five were ordered in 2019 for about 1.98 billion dollars and the order was cut to three in the 2021 Integrated Review. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The type does not yet appear as a line in the Ministry of Defence&rsquo;s 2026 equipment statistics, so there is no official in-service count.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph6\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Boeing Airseeker RC-135W Rivet Joint<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Signals intelligence<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>2013<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Three on charge and three in service at 1 April 2026.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph7\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Beechcraft Shadow R1<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>2009<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Eight on charge at 1 April 2026 with five in service, down from six in service a year earlier.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>General Atomics Protector RG1<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, remotely piloted<\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>16 on charge at 1 April 2026 with nine in service &mdash; the first year the type appears in the Ministry of Defence&rsquo;s statistics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph8\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Atlas C1<span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical and strategic airlift<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>2014<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>22 on charge and 22 in service at 1 April 2026, the full order.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph9\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Boeing Globemaster C-17A<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strategic airlift<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Eight on charge and eight in service at 1 April 2026; the figure has not changed in five years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph10\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Voyager KC2\/KC3<span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Air-to-air refuelling and strategic transport<\/td>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>14 on charge and 14 in service at 1 April 2026. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The RAF describes a core fleet of eight military-registered aircraft plus one on the civil register, with five more available commercially and recallable.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph11\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Dassault Envoy IV CC1<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Command support air transport<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2022<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Two on charge and two in service at 1 April 2026.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph12\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Boeing Chinook HC6A<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy-lift support helicopter<\/td>\n<td>45<\/td>\n<td>1980<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>45 on charge at 1 April 2026 with 36 in the effective forward fleet, down from 59 on charge in 2022. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Janes, reading the 2026 Defence Investment Plan, counted about 51 airframes in three marks &mdash; 8 HC5, 14 HC6 and about 29 HC6A. The MoD statistic is the later and lower figure and is the one used here.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Jupiter HC2<span class=\"nflag nf3\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Germany\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light utility helicopter<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Six aircraft. The type is too new to appear separately in the 2026 equipment tables, where the Jupiter line is the seven training HT1s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph13\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">BAE Systems Hawk T2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Advanced fast-jet trainer<\/td>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<td>2009<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>28 on charge and 28 in service at 1 April 2026, unchanged since 2022.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph14\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">BAE Systems Hawk T1<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Display and support jet trainer<\/td>\n<td>24<\/td>\n<td>1976<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>24 on charge at 1 April 2026 with 18 in service, down from 67 on charge as recently as 1 April 2024.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph15\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Beechcraft Texan T1<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Basic fast-jet trainer<\/td>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>14 on charge at 1 April 2026. No in-service figure is published because the aircraft is operated under an availability contract.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph16\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Grob Prefect T1<span class=\"nflag nf3\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Germany\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Elementary flying trainer<\/td>\n<td>23<\/td>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>23 on charge at 1 April 2026. Operated under an availability contract, so no in-service figure is published.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph17\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Embraer Phenom T1<span class=\"nflag nf9\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Brazil\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Multi-engine pilot trainer<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Five on charge at 1 April 2026. Operated under an availability contract, so no in-service figure is published.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph18\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Grob Tutor T1<span class=\"nflag nf3\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Germany\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Elementary trainer and air experience<\/td>\n<td>91<\/td>\n<td>1999<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>91 on charge at 1 April 2026. This is the tri-service figure; no in-service count is published for aircraft on availability contracts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Grob Viking T1<span class=\"nflag nf3\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Germany\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Glider, air cadet training<\/td>\n<td>81<\/td>\n<td>1984<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>81 on charge at 1 April 2026 with 54 in service, the highest in-service figure since 2023.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph19\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Juno HT1<span class=\"nflag nf3\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Germany\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Basic helicopter trainer<\/td>\n<td>29<\/td>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>29 on charge at 1 April 2026. Operated under an availability contract, so no in-service figure is published.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph20\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Jupiter HT1<span class=\"nflag nf3\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Germany\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Advanced helicopter trainer<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Seven on charge at 1 April 2026. Operated under an availability contract, so no in-service figure is published.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fleetchart\">\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Typhoon FGR4<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:100%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">124<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Tutor T1<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:73%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">91<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Viking T1<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:65%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">81<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Lightning F-35B<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:38%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">47<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Chinook HC6A<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:36%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">45<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Juno HT1<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:23%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">29<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Hawk T2<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:23%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">28<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Hawk T1<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:19%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">24<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>On order<\/h3>\n<div class=\"tscroll\">\n<table class=\"oobt fleet ord\">\n<colgroup>\n<col class=\"c-th\">\n<col class=\"c-type\">\n<col class=\"c-num\">\n<col class=\"c-fd\">\n<col><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Ordered<\/th>\n<th>First delivery<\/th>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph21\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lockheed Martin Lightning F-35A<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Announced on 25 June 2025 and the most significant change to the RAF&rsquo;s role in a generation: the F-35A will be available to fly NATO&rsquo;s nuclear deterrence mission in a crisis, the first British air-delivered nuclear capability since the WE.177 was withdrawn in 1998. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The aircraft go to No. 207 Squadron, the operational conversion unit at RAF Marham, where their longer range and lower maintenance burden also make them better trainers than the F-35B. The warheads would be American B61-12 weapons held under NATO arrangements, not British ones.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph3\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lockheed Martin Lightning F-35B<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The rest of the 27-aircraft second phase announced in June 2025. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Britain&rsquo;s declared headmark for the programme remains 138 aircraft of all marks across its life, a figure first stated in 2015 and never formally revised, against 47 on charge at 1 April 2026.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph22\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Boeing Chinook H-47(ER)<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>2028<\/td>\n<td>Fourteen extended-range Chinooks with a digital cockpit and automatic flight control system, contracted in March 2024 for delivery between 2028 and 2032. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The 1.4 billion pound programme was announced in May 2021 with deliveries then promised from 2026, so it has slipped about three years. The 2026 Defence Investment Plan adds a second tranche in the 2030s and confirms that the 29 HC6As go by 2030, which leaves a gap in heavy lift in between.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Global Combat Air Programme (Tempest)<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>2035<\/td>\n<td>A sixth-generation crewed fighter being developed with Japan and Italy under a treaty signed in December 2023 and ratified by the United Kingdom in October 2024, to replace the Typhoon from 2035. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The Ministry of Defence had committed 2 billion pounds since 2021 and budgeted more than 12 billion over the next decade; the Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 put more than 8 billion pounds into the next four years. A flying demonstrator is in final assembly for a first flight in 2027. No number of aircraft has been announced.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Collaborative Combat Aircraft<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>A national programme worth 300 million pounds in the 2026 Defence Investment Plan to develop an autonomous aircraft to fly alongside crewed fighters, with a demonstrator expected by 2030. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>No type, quantity or in-service date has been announced.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Military jet trainer, type not selected<span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 committed 360 million pounds to recapitalise the military jet training system, which covers both the fast-jet training fleet and the Red Arrows&rsquo; Hawk T1s. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It deliberately does not name an aircraft. The Boeing-Saab T-7A Red Hawk, the Leonardo M-346 and the Korean T-50 remain in contention, and UK workshare is a live political issue.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"former\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Formerly operated<\/div>\n<h2>Every type the Royal Air Force has retired<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">84 types, from the Avro 504 to the General Atomics Reaper MQ-9A. <span class=\"imp\">Peak figures are airframes taken on charge over the whole service life, not fleet strength on any one date.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tscroll\">\n<table class=\"oobt fleet former\">\n<colgroup>\n<col class=\"c-th\">\n<col class=\"c-type\">\n<col class=\"c-role\">\n<col class=\"c-num\">\n<col class=\"c-srv\">\n<col class=\"c-rep\">\n<col><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Role<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align:right\">Peak<\/th>\n<th>Served<\/th>\n<th>Replaced by<\/th>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mq-9-reaper\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph23\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mq-9-reaper\/\" class=\"was\">General Atomics Reaper MQ-9A<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, remotely piloted<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>2007&ndash;2025<\/td>\n<td>Protector RG1<\/td>\n<td>Nine on charge at 1 April 2025 and none a year later.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph24\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Puma HC1\/HC2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Medium support helicopter<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>1971&ndash;2025<\/td>\n<td>Jupiter HC2 and other types<\/td>\n<td>20 on charge at 1 April 2025 with none in the forward fleet, and gone entirely by 2026.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/c-130-hercules\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph25\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/c-130-hercules\/\" class=\"was\">Lockheed Hercules C1\/C3\/C4\/C5<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical airlift<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1967&ndash;2023<\/td>\n<td>Atlas C1<\/td>\n<td>13 C-130J on charge at 1 April 2023 and none a year later.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph26\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Bell Griffin HT1\/HAR2<span class=\"nflag nf1\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Canada\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Utility and training helicopter<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>1997&ndash;2023<\/td>\n<td>Jupiter HT1 and Jupiter HC2<\/td>\n<td>Three on charge at 1 April 2022 and none a year later.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph27\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>British Aerospace 146 CC2\/C3<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Command support and tactical transport<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1986&ndash;2022<\/td>\n<td>Envoy IV CC1<\/td>\n<td>Four aircraft in No. XXXII (The Royal) Squadron service, retired in 2022.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph28\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Boeing Sentry AEW1<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airborne early warning and control<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1991&ndash;2021<\/td>\n<td>Wedgetail AEW1<\/td>\n<td>Seven were bought; the fleet had shrunk to a handful before withdrawal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph29\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Raytheon Sentinel R1<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airborne stand-off radar and ground surveillance<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>2008&ndash;2021<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Five aircraft.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph30\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Shorts Tucano T1<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Basic flying trainer<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1989&ndash;2019<\/td>\n<td>Texan T1<\/td>\n<td>130 were built by Shorts at Belfast.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/panavia-tornado\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph31\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/panavia-tornado\/\" class=\"was\">Panavia Tornado GR1\/GR4<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strike, interdiction and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1979&ndash;2019<\/td>\n<td>Typhoon FGR4 and Lightning F-35B<\/td>\n<td>The backbone of RAF offensive air power for four decades. The first aircraft went to the Tri-national Tornado Training Establishment at RAF Cottesmore and No. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>IX (Bomber) Squadron became the first front-line unit in 1982. Forty-nine GR1s went to the Gulf in 1991, where six were lost in action in low-level attacks on Iraqi airfields; the type then flew the Iraqi no-fly zones, Kosovo, Iraq again in 2003, Libya in 2011 and Operation Shader from 2014, carrying Storm Shadow, Brimstone and Paveway IV. UK aircraft were assembled by British Aerospace at Warton. Retired in 2019.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph32\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>AgustaWestland Merlin HC3\/HC3A<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Medium support helicopter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>2001&ndash;2016<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s Merlins flew in Iraq and Afghanistan and were transferred whole to the Royal Navy&rsquo;s Commando Helicopter Force in 2014 to 2016 as part of the rebalancing that followed the Harrier decision.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph33\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Westland Sea King HAR3\/HAR3A<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Search and rescue<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1978&ndash;2015<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>The yellow Sea King was the most publicly visible thing the RAF did: mountain rescue in Wales and Scotland, cliff and sea rescues around the coast, and the Falklands. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Military search and rescue in the United Kingdom passed to a civilian contractor in 2015 and the RAF gave it up, keeping only the Mountain Rescue Service.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph34\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Vickers VC10 C1K\/K3\/K4<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Air-to-air refuelling and strategic transport<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1966&ndash;2013<\/td>\n<td>Voyager KC2\/KC3<\/td>\n<td>The RAF flew the VC10 for 47 years, first as a transport with No. 10 Squadron and later as a tanker. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Over Libya in 2011 three VC10s flew 422 sorties and offloaded nearly ten million kilogrammes of fuel. They and the TriStars were retired together in 2013 when the AirTanker arrangement took over.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph35\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Lockheed TriStar K1\/KC1\/C2<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Air-to-air refuelling and strategic transport<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1984&ndash;2013<\/td>\n<td>Voyager KC2\/KC3<\/td>\n<td>Nine ex-airline aircraft converted after the Falklands campaign exposed the RAF&rsquo;s shortage of long-range transport and tanking.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/panavia-tornado\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph36\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/panavia-tornado\/\" class=\"was\">Panavia Tornado F2\/F3<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Interceptor<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1985&ndash;2011<\/td>\n<td>Typhoon FGR4<\/td>\n<td>The air-defence Tornado, built for long-range interception of Soviet bombers over the North Sea and never comfortable in any other role. Eighteen F3s deployed to the Gulf in 1991. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It held UK Quick Reaction Alert until the Typhoon took over and was retired in 2011.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph37\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R1<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Signals intelligence<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>1974&ndash;2011<\/td>\n<td>Airseeker RC-135W Rivet Joint<\/td>\n<td>Three aircraft.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph38\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Hawker Siddeley Dominie T1<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Navigator trainer<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1965&ndash;2011<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>A military HS.125 used to train navigators and weapon systems officers at RAF Cranwell for 46 years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph39\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\" class=\"was\">British Aerospace Harrier GR5\/GR7\/GR9<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Close air support and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1989&ndash;2010<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>The second-generation Harrier, a development of the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B assembled by British Aerospace in the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It flew over Iraq, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan and, in Joint Force Harrier, from Royal Navy carriers. The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review retired it at once: the last RAF Harrier sorties were flown in December 2010 and the airframes were later sold to the United States Marine Corps for spares. Britain had no fixed-wing carrier aviation at all until the F-35B arrived.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph40\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR1\/MR2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1969&ndash;2010<\/td>\n<td>Poseidon MRA1, after a nine-year gap<\/td>\n<td>The world&rsquo;s first jet maritime patrol aircraft, developed from the Comet airliner. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Nimrods hunted Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic, searched for the Argentine fleet in 1982 and flew overland intelligence missions over Afghanistan and Iraq. XV230 was lost near Kandahar on 2 September 2006 after an in-flight fire following air-to-air refuelling, killing all fourteen on board &mdash; the largest single loss of British life in the Afghanistan campaign. The Haddon-Cave Review of 28 October 2009 called the aircraft&rsquo;s safety case &quot;a lamentable job from start to finish&quot; and accused the Ministry of Defence of sacrificing safety to cost.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph41\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\" class=\"was\">BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Maritime patrol, cancelled<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1996&ndash;2010<\/td>\n<td>Poseidon MRA1<\/td>\n<td>21 aircraft were originally ordered, cut to nine by 2008; five were built and none entered service.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sepecat-jaguar\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph42\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sepecat-jaguar\/\" class=\"was\">SEPECAT Jaguar GR1\/GR3<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strike and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1973&ndash;2007<\/td>\n<td>Typhoon FGR4<\/td>\n<td>Twelve deployed to the Gulf in 1991.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-canberra\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph43\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-canberra\/\" class=\"was\">English Electric Canberra<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Bomber, reconnaissance and target facilities<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1951&ndash;2006<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Fifty-five years in RAF service, the longest of any British jet. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It began as the first RAF jet bomber, dropped bombs on Egyptian airfields at Suez in 1956, and ended as the PR9 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, which flew over Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan before retiring in 2006.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph44\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Westland Wessex HC2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Support helicopter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1964&ndash;2003<\/td>\n<td>Puma and Griffin<\/td>\n<td>A licence-built Sikorsky S-58 with British turbines. RAF Wessexes flew in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Hong Kong and Belize; the last left service with No. 84 Squadron at RAF Akrotiri in 2003. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Some listings give an earlier retirement date for the type because they count only the first-generation marks.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph45\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR1\/GR3<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Close air support and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1969&ndash;1994<\/td>\n<td>Harrier GR5\/GR7<\/td>\n<td>The first operational vertical and short take-off jet in any air force. In RAF Germany it dispersed into woods and farm tracks to survive an attack on its airfields; in 1982 No. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>1 Squadron took GR3s south to the Falklands aboard Atlantic Conveyor and flew close air support from HMS Hermes.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/blackburn-buccaneer\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph46\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/blackburn-buccaneer\/\" class=\"was\">Blackburn Buccaneer S2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Maritime strike and low-level attack<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1969&ndash;1994<\/td>\n<td>Tornado GR1<\/td>\n<td>Designed for the Royal Navy and inherited by the RAF when the carriers went. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It was the finest low-level strike aircraft of its generation and went to war at the very end of its life, laser-designating for Tornados over Iraq in 1991.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hunter\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph47\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hunter\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Hunter<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter and ground attack<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1954&ndash;1994<\/td>\n<td>Lightning, Harrier and Jaguar<\/td>\n<td>The Hunter was the best-looking aeroplane the RAF ever flew and, in the FGA9, one of the most useful: it did the ground-attack work in Aden and the Radfan and east of Suez into the 1970s. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Two-seat trainers flew on with the Buccaneer force at Lossiemouth until 1994.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bac-jet-provost\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph48\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bac-jet-provost\/\" class=\"was\">BAC Jet Provost<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Basic jet trainer<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1955&ndash;1993<\/td>\n<td>Tucano T1<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s basic trainer for nearly forty years and the aircraft in which most pilots of the Cold War RAF first flew a jet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-victor\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph49\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-victor\/\" class=\"was\">Handley Page Victor B1\/B2\/K2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strategic bomber, later tanker<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1957&ndash;1993<\/td>\n<td>VC10 and TriStar tankers<\/td>\n<td>The most advanced of the three V-bombers and the longest-lived, because when the bomber role ended it became the RAF&rsquo;s tanker. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Victors made Black Buck possible in 1982 and refuelled the Gulf War force in 1991 before retiring in 1993.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-4-phantom-ii\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph50\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-4-phantom-ii\/\" class=\"was\">McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG1\/FGR2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Interceptor, strike and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1969&ndash;1992<\/td>\n<td>Tornado F3<\/td>\n<td>British Phantoms were re-engined with Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans, which made them different aircraft from the American originals and not obviously better ones. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>They served in Germany, in the United Kingdom air defence region and, after the Falklands, in a detachment at Port Stanley. The last were retired in 1992.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-shackleton\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph51\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-shackleton\/\" class=\"was\">Avro Shackleton MR1\/MR2\/MR3\/AEW2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Maritime patrol and airborne early warning<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1951&ndash;1991<\/td>\n<td>Nimrod MR1, then E-3D Sentry<\/td>\n<td>A Lincoln bomber turned into a maritime patrol aircraft, with four Griffon engines and a noise that crews never forgot. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The maritime version gave way to the Nimrod in 1970, but the AEW2 conversions soldiered on as Britain&rsquo;s only airborne early warning aircraft until 1991, long past any reasonable life, because the Nimrod AEW3 that should have replaced them was cancelled in 1986.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-lightning\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph52\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-lightning\/\" class=\"was\">English Electric Lightning<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Interceptor<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1959&ndash;1988<\/td>\n<td>Phantom FGR2 and Tornado F3<\/td>\n<td>Britain&rsquo;s only home-grown supersonic interceptor to reach squadron service, and a machine of extraordinary climb rate and almost no range. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It sat on Quick Reaction Alert against Soviet reconnaissance aircraft over the North Sea for nearly thirty years. The 1957 Sandys White Paper cancelled the fighters that would have followed it.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-vulcan\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph53\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-vulcan\/\" class=\"was\">Avro Vulcan B1\/B2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strategic bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1956&ndash;1984<\/td>\n<td>Polaris, then Tornado GR1<\/td>\n<td>The most recognisable of the V-bombers and the only one to drop bombs in anger. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It carried Blue Danube, then Yellow Sun and the Blue Steel stand-off missile, and lost its strategic role when Polaris took over in 1969. In 1982 Vulcans flew the Black Buck missions from Ascension to Port Stanley, almost 6,600 nautical miles with up to eleven Victor tankers in the chain, and were retired two years later.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/folland-gnat\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph54\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/folland-gnat\/\" class=\"was\">Folland Gnat T1<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Advanced trainer<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1962&ndash;1979<\/td>\n<td>Hawk T1<\/td>\n<td>A tiny, difficult, delightful aeroplane that trained RAF fast-jet pilots at Valley and flew with the Red Arrows from 1965 until the Hawk replaced it in 1980.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-meteor\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph55\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-meteor\/\" class=\"was\">Gloster Meteor<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter, later target towing and trials<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1944&ndash;1977<\/td>\n<td>Hunter and Javelin<\/td>\n<td>The only Allied jet fighter to see combat in the Second World War, first used against V-1 flying bombs over southern England in 1944. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It was outclassed as a fighter by Korea but soldiered on in target-towing and trials work until 1977.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph56\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Short Belfast C1<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Outsize strategic airlift<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>1966&ndash;1976<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Ten aircraft.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph57\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Bristol Britannia C1\/C2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strategic transport<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1959&ndash;1975<\/td>\n<td>VC10 and Belfast<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s long-range turboprop transport of the 1960s, flown by No. 99 and No. 511 Squadrons on the routes to the Far East and the Gulf.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>de Havilland Comet C2\/C4<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strategic transport<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1956&ndash;1975<\/td>\n<td>VC10<\/td>\n<td>No. 216 Squadron&rsquo;s Comets made the RAF the first air force in the world to operate a jet transport, in 1956. The airframe went on to become the Nimrod.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-vampire\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph58\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-vampire\/\" class=\"was\">de Havilland Vampire<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter-bomber and trainer<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1946&ndash;1972<\/td>\n<td>Venom and Hunter<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s second jet fighter and the first single-engined one. The two-seat T11 trainer outlasted the fighters by many years and taught a generation of pilots to fly jets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-javelin\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph59\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-javelin\/\" class=\"was\">Gloster Javelin<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>All-weather interceptor<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1956&ndash;1968<\/td>\n<td>Lightning<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s first delta-winged all-weather fighter, big, heavy and short-lived. It was already obsolescent when the Lightning arrived and was gone by 1968.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/vickers-valiant\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph60\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/vickers-valiant\/\" class=\"was\">Vickers Valiant<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strategic bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1955&ndash;1965<\/td>\n<td>Vulcan and Victor<\/td>\n<td>The first V-bomber and the aircraft with which the RAF took on the British nuclear deterrent in 1955. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Valiants bombed Egyptian airfields at Suez in 1956 and dropped Britain&rsquo;s first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific tests. The whole fleet was grounded and scrapped in 1964 and 1965 after metal fatigue was found in the wing spars, a direct consequence of switching the aircraft to low-level flying.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bac-tsr-2\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph61\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bac-tsr-2\/\" class=\"was\">BAC TSR-2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strike and reconnaissance, cancelled<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1964&ndash;1965<\/td>\n<td>F-111K, also cancelled; eventually Tornado GR1<\/td>\n<td>One aircraft flew; two more were complete or near-complete and the rest were broken up on the jigs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-mosquito\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph62\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-mosquito\/\" class=\"was\">de Havilland Mosquito<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light bomber, night fighter, pathfinder and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1941&ndash;1963<\/td>\n<td>Meteor, Vampire and Canberra<\/td>\n<td>Built of wood, unarmed in its bomber version and fast enough not to need armament. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The Mosquito did precision raids, night fighting, pathfinding, photographic reconnaissance and maritime strike, and had one of the lowest loss rates in Bomber Command.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-venom\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph63\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-venom\/\" class=\"was\">de Havilland Venom<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter-bomber and night fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1952&ndash;1962<\/td>\n<td>Hunter and Javelin<\/td>\n<td>A developed Vampire with a thinner wing and more power, used heavily in the Middle East and Far East, including against Egyptian airfields at Suez in 1956 and in Malaya and Aden.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bristol-beaufighter\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph64\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bristol-beaufighter\/\" class=\"was\">Bristol Beaufighter<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Night fighter and anti-shipping strike<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1940&ndash;1960<\/td>\n<td>Mosquito and Brigand<\/td>\n<td>The first effective RAF night fighter, because it was big enough to carry early airborne radar and heavily enough armed to destroy a bomber in one pass. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It later became the anti-shipping strike aircraft of Coastal Command&rsquo;s strike wings.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph65\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\" class=\"was\">Supermarine Spitfire<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter and photographic reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1938&ndash;1957<\/td>\n<td>Meteor and Vampire<\/td>\n<td>The aeroplane the country remembers, and in fairness the only British fighter in production at the start of the war that was still competitive at the end of it. Twenty-four marks were built. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The last operational RAF sortie was flown by a photographic-reconnaissance PR19 in 1954 and the last RAF flight in 1957 &mdash; after which the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight has kept Spitfires flying continuously ever since, so in a strict sense the RAF has never stopped operating the type.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-86-sabre\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph66\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-86-sabre\/\" class=\"was\">Canadair Sabre F4<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf1\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Canada\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Day fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1953&ndash;1956<\/td>\n<td>Hunter<\/td>\n<td>About 430 Canadair-built Sabres were supplied to the RAF under the Mutual Defense Assistance Programme; the number is given differently in different accounts and should be treated as approximate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-lancaster\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph67\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-lancaster\/\" class=\"was\">Avro Lancaster<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1942&ndash;1956<\/td>\n<td>Lincoln, then Canberra<\/td>\n<td>The aircraft that carried most of Bomber Command&rsquo;s war. It flew the Dams raid in May 1943, the Ruhr, Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden, and carried the Tallboy and Grand Slam. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Maritime reconnaissance versions served with Coastal Command into the mid-1950s.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/wellington\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph68\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/wellington\/\" class=\"was\">Vickers Wellington<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Medium bomber and maritime patrol<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1938&ndash;1953<\/td>\n<td>Lancaster and Halifax<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s standard bomber at the start of the war, built on Barnes Wallis&rsquo;s geodetic structure, which made it famously able to come home with large parts missing. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It stayed in front-line use in the Mediterranean and with Coastal Command long after the heavies took over in Europe.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-tempest\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph69\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-tempest\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Tempest<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter and ground attack<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1944&ndash;1953<\/td>\n<td>Vampire and Venom<\/td>\n<td>A redesigned Typhoon with a thin laminar-flow wing and one of the fastest piston fighters at low level of the whole war. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Tempest squadrons shot down a large share of the V-1 flying bombs that reached southern England in 1944.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-halifax\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph70\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-halifax\/\" class=\"was\">Handley Page Halifax<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy bomber and special duties<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1940&ndash;1952<\/td>\n<td>Lancaster and Lincoln<\/td>\n<td>The other four-engined heavy of Bomber Command, less celebrated than the Lancaster and used far more widely: bombing, maritime patrol, glider towing, and dropping agents and supplies to resistance movements across occupied Europe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fairey-battle\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph71\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fairey-battle\/\" class=\"was\">Fairey Battle<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1937&ndash;1949<\/td>\n<td>Blenheim and Boston<\/td>\n<td>Obsolete before it fired a shot and sent anyway. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>In the Battle of France in May 1940 Battle squadrons were destroyed attacking the Meuse bridges; the RAF&rsquo;s first two Victoria Crosses of the war were won on one such raid. Survivors became trainers and target tugs.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hurricane\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph72\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hurricane\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Hurricane<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter and ground attack<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1937&ndash;1947<\/td>\n<td>Typhoon and Tempest<\/td>\n<td>The Hurricane, not the Spitfire, did most of the work in 1940: it equipped more squadrons, was easier to repair and shot down more German aircraft in the Battle of Britain than everything else put together. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It went on to fight in North Africa, Malta, Russia and Burma as a fighter-bomber.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-51-mustang\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph73\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-51-mustang\/\" class=\"was\">North American Mustang III\/IV<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Long-range fighter and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1942&ndash;1947<\/td>\n<td>Meteor and Vampire<\/td>\n<td>The RAF asked for the Mustang, took the first Allison-engined versions for tactical reconnaissance, and suggested fitting it with a Merlin &mdash; the change that turned it into the best long-range escort fighter of the war. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>RAF Mustang IIIs and IVs escorted bombers and chased V-1s.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/short-stirling\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph74\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/short-stirling\/\" class=\"was\">Short Stirling<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy bomber, glider tug and transport<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1940&ndash;1946<\/td>\n<td>Lancaster and Halifax<\/td>\n<td>The first British four-engined heavy bomber, hobbled by an Air Ministry requirement that its wingspan fit a standard hangar, which limited its altitude and made it the most vulnerable of the three heavies. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It was withdrawn from bombing in 1944 and finished the war towing gliders at Arnhem and on D-Day.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/b-25-mitchell\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph75\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/b-25-mitchell\/\" class=\"was\">North American Mitchell<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Medium bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1942&ndash;1946<\/td>\n<td>Mosquito and Canberra<\/td>\n<td>Supplied under Lend-Lease and flown by No. 2 Group on daylight tactical bombing over France and the Low Countries, alongside Dutch and other Allied crews in RAF service.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-typhoon\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph76\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-typhoon\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Typhoon<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Ground attack<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1941&ndash;1945<\/td>\n<td>Tempest<\/td>\n<td>A failure as an interceptor that became the best ground-attack aircraft of the North-West Europe campaign. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Typhoons with rockets and bombs broke up German armour in the Falaise pocket and at Mortain, at a cost in pilots that was extremely high.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/boulton-paul-defiant\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph77\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/boulton-paul-defiant\/\" class=\"was\">Boulton Paul Defiant<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Turret fighter, later night fighter and target tug<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1939&ndash;1945<\/td>\n<td>Beaufighter and Mosquito<\/td>\n<td>A fighter with no forward-firing guns, only a four-gun power turret. It had one good day over Dunkirk, when German pilots mistook it for a Hurricane, and was then slaughtered. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Withdrawn from day fighting in 1940, it did useful work as a night fighter and target tug.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/armstrong-whitworth-whitley\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph78\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/armstrong-whitworth-whitley\/\" class=\"was\">Armstrong Whitworth Whitley<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy bomber, maritime patrol and glider tug<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1937&ndash;1945<\/td>\n<td>Halifax and Lancaster<\/td>\n<td>One of the three front-line bombers of 1939, nose-down in level flight and very slow. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Whitleys dropped the first RAF leaflets over Germany and the first bombs on Italy, then moved to Coastal Command and the airborne forces.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-gladiator\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph79\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-gladiator\/\" class=\"was\">Gloster Gladiator<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1937&ndash;1945<\/td>\n<td>Hurricane and Spitfire<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s last biplane fighter, obsolete in 1939 and still fighting in Norway, over Malta and in East Africa in 1940 and 1941 because there was nothing else to send.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-40-warhawk\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph80\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-40-warhawk\/\" class=\"was\">Curtiss Tomahawk and Kittyhawk<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter and fighter-bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1941&ndash;1945<\/td>\n<td>Spitfire and Mustang<\/td>\n<td>The RAF and the Commonwealth air forces in the Western Desert flew the P-40 in large numbers as a fighter-bomber. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It was outclassed above 15,000 feet and perfectly adequate below it, which is where the desert war was fought.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/b-17-flying-fortress\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph81\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/b-17-flying-fortress\/\" class=\"was\">Boeing Fortress<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy bomber, maritime patrol and electronic warfare<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1941&ndash;1945<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>The RAF tried the B-17 as a high-altitude day bomber in 1941, found the early version unsuitable and passed the type to Coastal Command for long-range maritime patrol and to No. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>100 Group for radio countermeasures.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/pby-catalina\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph82\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/pby-catalina\/\" class=\"was\">Consolidated Catalina<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Maritime patrol flying boat<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1941&ndash;1945<\/td>\n<td>Sunderland and Shackleton<\/td>\n<td>The long-endurance flying boat of the Atlantic convoy battle. It was an RAF Catalina that re-found the Bismarck in May 1941 after the Royal Navy lost contact.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bristol-blenheim\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph83\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bristol-blenheim\/\" class=\"was\">Bristol Blenheim<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light bomber and fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1937&ndash;1944<\/td>\n<td>Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito<\/td>\n<td>In 1936 the Blenheim was faster than the fighters meant to intercept it; by 1940 it was a death trap, and the daylight raids it flew against shipping and airfields in 1940 and 1941 were among the costliest operations of the war for the crews involved.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-hampden\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph84\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-hampden\/\" class=\"was\">Handley Page Hampden<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Medium bomber and torpedo bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1938&ndash;1943<\/td>\n<td>Lancaster and Halifax<\/td>\n<td>The third of the 1939 bombers, cramped to the point that crew members could not change places in flight. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Withdrawn from Bomber Command in 1942 and used as a torpedo bomber by Coastal Command.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-gauntlet\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph85\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-gauntlet\/\" class=\"was\">Gloster Gauntlet<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1935&ndash;1940<\/td>\n<td>Gladiator and Hurricane<\/td>\n<td>The last open-cockpit fighter in RAF service and the first to make a radar-directed interception, in an experiment over the North Sea in 1937 that pointed directly at the Dowding System.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hart\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph86\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hart\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Hart<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1930&ndash;1939<\/td>\n<td>Battle and Blenheim<\/td>\n<td>A biplane light bomber faster than the fighters of its day, and the parent of a whole family &mdash; Demon, Audax, Hind, Hardy &mdash; that equipped much of the RAF in the 1930s, at home and on imperial policing duty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-fury\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph87\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-fury\/\" class=\"was\">Hawker Fury<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Interceptor<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1931&ndash;1939<\/td>\n<td>Hurricane and Spitfire<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s first fighter able to exceed 200 miles an hour in level flight, and the elegant high point of the biplane fighter. It is not the Sea Fury, a different and much later aircraft.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-heyford\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph88\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-heyford\/\" class=\"was\">Handley Page Heyford<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1933&ndash;1939<\/td>\n<td>Whitley and Wellington<\/td>\n<td>The last biplane heavy bomber in RAF service, with the fuselage slung under the upper wing. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>A Heyford was the aircraft used in the Daventry experiment of February 1935, the first practical demonstration that an aeroplane could be detected by radio waves.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bristol-bulldog\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph89\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bristol-bulldog\/\" class=\"was\">Bristol Bulldog<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1929&ndash;1937<\/td>\n<td>Gauntlet and Gladiator<\/td>\n<td>For most of the early 1930s the Bulldog equipped about a third of RAF Fighter Command&rsquo;s predecessor, the Air Defence of Great Britain. Douglas Bader lost his legs in one in 1931.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-504\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph90\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-504\/\" class=\"was\">Avro 504<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Trainer, and early bomber and night fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1913&ndash;1933<\/td>\n<td>Tutor and Hart trainers<\/td>\n<td>The aircraft on which the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and then the RAF learned to fly, for twenty years. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Avro 504s also flew the first British strategic bombing raid of the First World War, against the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen in November 1914.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/vickers-vimy\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph91\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/vickers-vimy\/\" class=\"was\">Vickers Vimy<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1919&ndash;1933<\/td>\n<td>Virginia and Heyford<\/td>\n<td>Built to bomb Berlin and finished too late to do it. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>In RAF service it equipped the heavy bomber squadrons of the 1920s and served in Egypt and the Middle East; a civil-registered Vimy made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/armstrong-whitworth-siskin\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph92\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/armstrong-whitworth-siskin\/\" class=\"was\">Armstrong Whitworth Siskin<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1924&ndash;1932<\/td>\n<td>Bulldog<\/td>\n<td>One of the first RAF fighters of all-metal construction, and a mainstay of the very small home defence force of the 1920s, when the whole RAF was fighting for its existence.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bristol-f2-fighter\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph93\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bristol-f2-fighter\/\" class=\"was\">Bristol F.2 Fighter<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Two-seat fighter and army cooperation<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1917&ndash;1932<\/td>\n<td>Audax and Atlas<\/td>\n<td>The Brisfit had a disastrous debut in April 1917 and then, once crews learned to fly it as a single-seater with a sting in the tail, became one of the best aircraft of the war. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It stayed in RAF service for fifteen years, much of it on imperial policing in Iraq and on the North-West Frontier.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/airco-dh-9\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph94\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/airco-dh-9\/\" class=\"was\">Airco DH.9 and DH.9A<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Day bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1918&ndash;1931<\/td>\n<td>Wapiti<\/td>\n<td>The DH.9 was a worse aeroplane than the DH.4 it replaced, because of an inadequate engine; the re-engined DH.9A was much better and became the standard RAF bomber of the 1920s, flying air control operations in Iraq, Aden and on the North-West Frontier.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-snipe\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph95\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-snipe\/\" class=\"was\">Sopwith Snipe<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1918&ndash;1926<\/td>\n<td>Grebe, Siskin and Woodcock<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s standard fighter at the end of the First World War and for most of the years immediately after it, when the service was cut from nearly 200 squadrons to a couple of dozen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-camel\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph96\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-camel\/\" class=\"was\">Sopwith Camel<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1917&ndash;1920<\/td>\n<td>Snipe<\/td>\n<td>Credited with more air-to-air victories than any other Allied aircraft of the First World War.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/airco-dh-4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph97\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/airco-dh-4\/\" class=\"was\">Airco DH.4<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Day bomber and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1917&ndash;1920<\/td>\n<td>DH.9A<\/td>\n<td>The best British day bomber of the First World War, fast enough to outrun many fighters, and the aircraft on which the Independent Force began its raids into Germany in 1918.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-o-400\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph98\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-o-400\/\" class=\"was\">Handley Page O\/400<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Heavy night bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1918&ndash;1920<\/td>\n<td>Vickers Vimy<\/td>\n<td>The RAF&rsquo;s heavy night bomber of 1918 and the aircraft of the Independent Force, which took the war to German industrial cities &mdash; the practical beginning of the strategic bombing idea that shaped the service for the next thirty years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-dolphin\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph99\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-dolphin\/\" class=\"was\">Sopwith Dolphin<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1918&ndash;1919<\/td>\n<td>Snipe<\/td>\n<td>A back-staggered Sopwith with the pilot&rsquo;s head through the upper wing, good at altitude and used against high-flying German reconnaissance aircraft in the last year of the war.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-pup\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph100\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-pup\/\" class=\"was\">Sopwith Pup<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1916&ndash;1918<\/td>\n<td>Camel<\/td>\n<td>A Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps fighter, gentle and beautifully balanced, and the aircraft in which Edwin Dunning made the first landing on a moving ship in August 1917.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-triplane\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph101\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-triplane\/\" class=\"was\">Sopwith Triplane<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1917&ndash;1918<\/td>\n<td>Camel<\/td>\n<td>A Royal Naval Air Service fighter whose rate of climb so alarmed the Germans that it prompted a wave of triplane designs, the Fokker Dr.I among them. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Few reached RAF service after the merger.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-1-1-2-strutter\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph102\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sopwith-1-1-2-strutter\/\" class=\"was\">Sopwith 1 1\/2 Strutter<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Two-seat fighter and bomber<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1916&ndash;1918<\/td>\n<td>Camel and DH.4<\/td>\n<td>The first British aircraft to enter service with a synchronised machine gun firing through the propeller, flown by both the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/spad-s-vii\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph103\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/spad-s-vii\/\" class=\"was\">SPAD S.VII<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1916&ndash;1918<\/td>\n<td>Camel and Dolphin<\/td>\n<td>A strong, fast French fighter bought for several Royal Flying Corps squadrons in France and for Middle East service, valued for its ability to dive without breaking up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/spad-xiii\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/spad-xiii\/\" class=\"was\">SPAD XIII<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1917&ndash;1918<\/td>\n<td>Camel and Snipe<\/td>\n<td>The more powerful development of the S.VII, used in small numbers by the Royal Flying Corps before British types caught up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/nieuport-11\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/nieuport-11\/\" class=\"was\">Nieuport 11<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>1916&ndash;1917<\/td>\n<td>Nieuport 17 and Camel<\/td>\n<td>French-built and flown by the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916, when British-designed fighters were losing badly to the Fokker monoplanes. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Its service ended before the RAF was formed; it is listed here because the RAF&rsquo;s lineage runs through the RFC and RNAS.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"bases\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Air bases<\/div>\n<h2>Where the Royal Air Force flies from, at home and abroad<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Black pins are active stations, hollow pins the ones that have closed. <span class=\"imp\">Quick Reaction Alert is held round the clock from Lossiemouth in the north and Coningsby in the south.<\/span> A dozen entries below are radar heads, headquarters or closed stations with no aerodrome, so they carry no pin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mapframe\">\n<div id=\"oobmap\" class=\"oobmap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"legend\"><span><i class=\"dot\"><\/i> Active air base<\/span><span><i class=\"dot was\"><\/i> Closed or reserve<\/span><span>Click a pin to open the base page<\/span><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"mapsub\">The United Kingdom<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mapnote\">4 of the 46 bases above sit outside the United Kingdom, so the world map has to pull back until the home airfields cannot be told apart. The same pins again, without the overseas bases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mapframe\">\n<div id=\"oobmap2\" class=\"oobmap home\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"oob2-data\" 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\">\n<td>Ascension Island Base<span>Ascension Island<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Ascension Island Base<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-aldergrove\" data-base=\"aldergrove\" data-x=\"active active Joint Aviation Command \">\n<td>Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station Aldergrove<span>County Antrim, Northern Ireland<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGAA<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>07\/25<\/span>2,780 m<span>grooved asphalt<\/span><\/span><span><span>17\/35<\/span>1,891 m<span>asphalt with porous friction coat<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-leuchars\" data-base=\"leuchars\" data-x=\"active active British Army, with an RAF aerodrome unit \">\n<td>Leuchars Station<span>Fife, 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m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Empire Test Pilots&rsquo; School<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-mount-pleasant\" data-base=\"mount-pleasant\" data-x=\"active active British Forces South Atlantic Islands \">\n<td>Mount Pleasant Complex<span>East Falkland, Falkland Islands<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGYP<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>10\/28<\/span>2,589 m<span>asphalt and concrete<\/span><\/span><span><span>05\/23<\/span>1,525 m<span>asphalt and concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 1435 Flight<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 1312 Flight<\/span>: <span>Voyager KC3, Atlas C1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 1310 Flight<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-akrotiri\" data-base=\"akrotiri\" data-x=\"active active British Forces Cyprus \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/akrotiri\/\">Royal Air Force Akrotiri<\/a><span>Western Sovereign Base Area, Cyprus<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LCRA<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>10\/28<\/span>2,745 m<span>blacktop with concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 84 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Jupiter HC2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Cyprus Operations Support Unit<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Griffin and Puma at Akrotiri<\/span>: <span>Griffin HAR2, Puma HC2<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-barkston-heath\" data-base=\"barkston-heath\" data-x=\"active active No. 3 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Barkston Heath<span>Lincolnshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGYE<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>06\/24<\/span>1,868 m<span>blacktop with concrete ends<\/span><\/span><span><span>10\/28<\/span>1,318 m<span>blacktop with concrete ends<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Relief landing ground for Cranwell<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-benson\" data-base=\"benson\" data-x=\"active active Joint Aviation Command \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Benson<span>Oxfordshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGUB<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>01\/19<\/span>1,825 m<span>blacktop<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 28 (Army Cooperation) Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. XXII Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Jupiter HC2 interim medium helicopter<\/span>: <span>Jupiter HC2<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Joint Helicopter Support Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 606 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Oxford University Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 6 Air Experience Flight<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>No. 33 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Puma HC2<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>No. 230 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Puma HC2<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-boulmer\" data-base=\"boulmer\" data-x=\"active active Air Command and Control Force, No. 11 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Boulmer<span>Northumberland, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. XIX Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 20 Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 144 Signals Unit<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 9 RAF Police and Security Squadron (Air C2 and Space)<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Control and Reporting Centre<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-brize-norton\" data-base=\"brize-norton\" data-x=\"active active Air Mobility Force, No. 1 Group \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/brize-norton\/\">Royal Air Force Brize Norton<\/a><span>Oxfordshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGVN<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>07\/25<\/span>3,050 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 10 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Voyager KC2\/KC3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 101 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Voyager KC2\/KC3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 99 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Globemaster C-17A<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. XXIV Squadron<\/span>: <span>Globemaster C-17A, Atlas C1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 30 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Atlas C1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. LXX Squadron<\/span>: <span>Atlas C1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 206 Test and Evaluation Squadron<\/span>: <span>Atlas C1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. II Squadron RAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 501 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 622 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 4624 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 4626 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2624 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>UK Mobile Air Movements Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>No. 47 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/c-130-hercules\/\">Hercules C4\/C5<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-cranwell\" data-base=\"cranwell\" data-x=\"active active No. 3 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force College Cranwell<span>Lincolnshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGYD<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>08\/26<\/span>2,081 m<span>asphalt with concrete ends<\/span><\/span><span><span>01\/19<\/span>1,462 m<span>asphalt with concrete ends<\/span><\/span><span><span>06\/24<\/span>1,197 m<span>grass<\/span><\/span><span><span>03\/21<\/span>1,103 m<span>grass<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 45 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Phenom T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. LVII Squadron<\/span>: <span>Prefect T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 3 Flying Training School<\/span>: <span>Prefect T1, Phenom T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. VI Flying Training School<\/span>: <span>Tutor T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Central Flying School<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>East Midlands Universities Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Tutor T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>RAF Officer Training Academy<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 8 RAF Police and Security Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-coningsby\" data-base=\"coningsby\" data-x=\"active active No. 1 Group \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/coningsby\/\">Royal Air Force Coningsby<\/a><span>Lincolnshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGXC<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>07\/25<\/span>2,744 m<span>asphalt with concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 3 (Fighter) Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. XI (Fighter) Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 12 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 29 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon T3<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. XLI Test and Evaluation Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Battle of Britain Memorial Flight<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\">Spitfire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hurricane\/\">Hurricane<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-lancaster\/\">Lancaster<\/a>, Dakota, Chipmunk<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Typhoon Display Team<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Air Land Integration Cell<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-cosford\" data-base=\"cosford\" data-x=\"active active Defence College of Technical Training, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Cosford<span>Shropshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGWC<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>06\/24<\/span>1,118 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>University of Birmingham Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 1 School of Technical Training<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2 School of Technical Training<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 1 Radio School<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Defence School of Photography<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-digby\" data-base=\"digby\" data-x=\"active active Joint Service Signals Organisation \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Digby<span>Lincolnshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Joint Service Signals Unit Digby<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 591 Signals Unit<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 399 Signals Unit<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Aerial Erectors School<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Fighter station and RCAF Station Digby<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\">Spitfire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-mosquito\/\">Mosquito<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-fylingdales\" data-base=\"fylingdales\" data-x=\"active active UK Space Command \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Fylingdales<span>North Yorkshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 2 Space Warning Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-gibraltar\" data-base=\"gibraltar\" data-x=\"active active British Forces Gibraltar \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Gibraltar<span>Gibraltar<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LXGB<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>09\/27<\/span>1,798 m<span>blacktop<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Royal Air Force Gibraltar<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-halton\" data-base=\"halton\" data-x=\"active active No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Halton<span>Buckinghamshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGWN<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>02\/20<\/span>1,161 m<span>grass<\/span><\/span><span><span>07\/25<\/span>868 m<span>grass<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 7644 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Aviator Training Academy<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Central Training School<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>School of Technical Training and the Aircraft Apprentice Scheme<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-henlow\" data-base=\"henlow\" data-x=\"active active No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Henlow<span>Bedfordshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Joint Arms Control Implementation Group<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Forensic Exploitation Flight<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-high-wycombe\" data-base=\"high-wycombe\" data-x=\"active active Headquarters Air Command \">\n<td>Royal Air Force High Wycombe<span>Buckinghamshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Headquarters Air Command<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 1 Group<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2 Group<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 11 Group<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 22 Group<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 1 Space Operations Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>European Air Group<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-honington\" data-base=\"honington\" data-x=\"active active RAF Regiment and RAF Police headquarters, No. 2 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Honington<span>Suffolk, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGXH<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>08\/26<\/span>2,745 m<span>asphalt and concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2623 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 3 RAF Police (Reserve) Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2 RAF Police Counter Intelligence Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 611 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-kenley\" data-base=\"kenley\" data-x=\"active active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Kenley<span>Greater London, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGKN<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>02\/20<\/span>823 m<\/span><span><span>07\/25<\/span>758 m<span>grass<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 615 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<\/span>: <span>Viking T1 glider<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-kirknewton\" data-base=\"kirknewton\" data-x=\"active active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Kirknewton<span>Midlothian, Scotland<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGKT<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>05L\/23R<\/span>617 m<\/span><span><span>11\/29<\/span>698 m<span>grass<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 661 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-leeming\" data-base=\"leeming\" data-x=\"active active No. 2 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Leeming<span>North Yorkshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGXE<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>16\/34<\/span>2,292 m<span>porous friction course over blacktop<\/span><\/span><span><span>03\/21<\/span>793 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 100 Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 607 (County of Durham) Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 609 (West Riding) Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation Unit<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Tactical Communications Wing<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-little-rissington\" data-base=\"little-rissington\" data-x=\"active active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Little Rissington<span>Gloucestershire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGVL<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>04\/22<\/span>1,490 m<\/span><span><span>09\/27<\/span>1,074 m<\/span><span><span>13\/31<\/span>975 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 637 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-lossiemouth\" data-base=\"lossiemouth\" data-x=\"active active No. 1 Group \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lossiemouth\/\">Royal Air Force Lossiemouth<\/a><span>Moray, Scotland<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGQS<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>05\/23<\/span>2,764 m<span>concrete and grooved marshall asphalt<\/span><\/span><span><span>10\/28<\/span>1,850 m<span>concrete and blacktop<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 1 (Fighter) Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. II (Army Cooperation) Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 6 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. IX (Bomber) Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. VIII Squadron<\/span>: <span>Wedgetail AEW Mk1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 120 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Poseidon MRA1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 201 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Poseidon MRA1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 42 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron<\/span>: <span>Poseidon MRA1, Wedgetail AEW Mk1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2622 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 4 RAF Police and Security Squadron (Typhoon)<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>RAF Mountain Rescue Service<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-marham\" data-base=\"marham\" data-x=\"active active No. 1 Group \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/marham\/\">Royal Air Force Marham<\/a><span>Norfolk, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGYM<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>05\/23<\/span>2,783 m<span>asphalt with concrete thresholds<\/span><\/span><span><span>01\/19<\/span>1,864 m<span>concrete and asphalt<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 617 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lightning F-35B<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 207 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lightning F-35B<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>809 Naval Air Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lightning F-35B<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Lightning Force Headquarters<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2620 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 6 RAF Police and Security Squadron (F35)<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-mona\" data-base=\"mona\" data-x=\"active active No. 4 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Mona<span>Anglesey, Wales<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGOQ<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>04\/22<\/span>1,647 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Relief landing ground for Valley<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-northolt\" data-base=\"northolt\" data-x=\"active active No. 2 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Northolt<span>Greater London, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGWU<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>07\/25<\/span>1,683 m<span>grooved marshall asphalt<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. XXXII Squadron<\/span>: <span>Envoy IV CC1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 601 (County of London) Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 63 Squadron RAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 1 Aeronautical Information Documents Unit<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-odiham\" data-base=\"odiham\" data-x=\"active active Joint Aviation Command \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Odiham<span>Hampshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGVO<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>09\/27<\/span>1,838 m<span>prc asphalt<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 7 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 18 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 27 Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Chinook Role Demonstration Team<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-shawbury\" data-base=\"shawbury\" data-x=\"active active No. 1 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Shawbury<span>Shropshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGOS<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>18\/36<\/span>1,831 m<span>blacktop and concrete<\/span><\/span><span><span>04\/22<\/span>1,375 m<span>blacktop and concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 60 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>660 Squadron Army Air Corps<\/span>: <span>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>670 Squadron Army Air Corps<\/span>: <span>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>705 Naval Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Central Flying School (Helicopter)<\/span>: <span>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Defence College of Air and Space Operations<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Aircraft Maintenance and Storage Unit<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-spadeadam\" data-base=\"spadeadam\" data-x=\"active active Air and Space Warfare Centre \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Spadeadam<span>Cumbria, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Electronic Warfare Tactics Range<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-st-mawgan\" data-base=\"st-mawgan\" data-x=\"active active No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force St Mawgan<span>Cornwall, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>12\/30<\/span>2,744 m<span>concrete and grooved asphalt<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 505 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Defence Survive, Evade, Resist and Extract Training Organisation<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Maritime reconnaissance at St Mawgan<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-lancaster\/\">Lancaster<\/a>, Sea King HAR3<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-swanwick\" data-base=\"swanwick\" data-x=\"active active No. 11 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Swanwick<span>Hampshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 78 Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-syerston\" data-base=\"syerston\" data-x=\"active active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Syerston<span>Nottinghamshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGXY<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>06\/24<\/span>1,810 m<\/span><span><span>15\/33<\/span>1,352 m<\/span><span><span>11\/29<\/span>559 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 2 Flying Training School<\/span>: <span>Viking T1 glider, Robin DR400<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Central Gliding School<\/span>: <span>Viking T1 glider<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 644 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<\/span>: <span>Viking T1 glider<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-topcliffe\" data-base=\"topcliffe\" data-x=\"active active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Topcliffe<span>North Yorkshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGXZ<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>02\/20<\/span>1,826 m<\/span><span><span>13\/31<\/span>1,256 m<span>stone mastic asphalt<\/span><\/span><span><span>07\/25<\/span>1,042 m<span>marshall asphalt<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Volunteer gliding at Topcliffe<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-valley\" data-base=\"valley\" data-x=\"active active No. 4 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Valley<span>Anglesey, Wales<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGOV<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>13\/31<\/span>2,290 m<span>asphalt and concrete<\/span><\/span><span><span>01\/19<\/span>1,572 m<span>asphalt and concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. IV Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">Hawk T2<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. XXV (Fighter) Squadron<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">Hawk T2<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 72 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Texan T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 202 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>RAF Mountain Rescue Service<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-waddington\" data-base=\"waddington\" data-x=\"active active ISTAR Force, No. 1 Group \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/waddington\/\">Royal Air Force Waddington<\/a><span>Lincolnshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGXW<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>02\/20<\/span>2,939 m<span>blacktop with concrete ends<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. XIII Squadron<\/span>: <span>Protector RG Mk 1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 31 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Protector RG Mk 1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 14 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Shadow R1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 51 Squadron<\/span>: <span>RC-135W Rivet Joint<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 54 Squadron<\/span>: <span>RC-135W Rivet Joint, Shadow R1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 56 Test and Evaluation Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 92 Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">Hawk T1<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 616 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2 ISR Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 3 ISR Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 2503 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 5 RAF Police and Security Squadron (ISTAR)<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-wittering\" data-base=\"wittering\" data-x=\"active active RAF Support Force, No. 2 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Wittering<span>Cambridgeshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGXT<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>07\/25<\/span>2,755 m<span>grooved marshall asphalt with brushed concrete thresholds<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 16 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Tutor T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 115 Squadron<\/span>: <span>Tutor T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 504 Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>Tutor T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 71 (Inspection and Repair) Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 93 (Expeditionary Armaments) Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 5001 Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Joint Aircraft Recovery and Transportation Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 1 Expeditionary Logistics Squadron<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Cambridge University Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Tutor T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>University of London Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Tutor T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 5 Air Experience Flight<\/span>: <span>Tutor T1<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Harrier Force at Wittering<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\">Harrier GR3, GR5, GR7 and GR9<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-woodvale\" data-base=\"woodvale\" data-x=\"active active No. 22 Group \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Woodvale<span>Merseyside, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td>EGOW<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>03\/21<\/span>1,648 m<\/span><span><span>08\/26<\/span>1,059 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>No. 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron RAuxAF<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Manchester and Salford Universities Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Liverpool University Air Squadron<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 10 Air Experience Flight<\/span>: <span>Type not stated<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Final operational RAF Spitfire flight<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\">Spitfire PR XIX<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-wyton\" data-base=\"wyton\" data-x=\"active active UK Strategic Command \">\n<td>Royal Air Force Wyton<span>Cambridgeshire, England<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic)<\/span>: <span>No assigned aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Pathfinder Force<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-mosquito\/\">Mosquito<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-lancaster\/\">Lancaster<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"qnone\" data-none=\"basefind\">No air base matches that search.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"oob\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Order of battle<\/div>\n<h2>Who is stationed where in the Royal Air Force<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Flying units by station, current units first. <span class=\"imp\">Squadron numbers are written as the Royal Air Force writes them, which means Roman numerals for some squadrons and Arabic for the rest.<\/span> Units belonging to the Royal Navy or the Army, or shared with them, say so.<\/p>\n<div class=\"qbar\"><input class=\"qin\" type=\"search\" id=\"unitfind\" data-filter=\"#oobwrap\" data-item=\".oob\" data-noun=\"installations\" placeholder=\"Search squadrons, wings, aircraft, bases\" aria-label=\"Search squadrons, wings, aircraft, bases\" autocomplete=\"off\" spellcheck=\"false\"><button class=\"qbtn\" type=\"button\" data-clear=\"unitfind\">Clear<\/button><span class=\"qcnt\" data-count=\"unitfind\"><\/span><button class=\"qbtn\" type=\"button\" data-toggleall=\"#oobwrap\">Expand all<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"oobwrap coll\" id=\"oobwrap\">\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Moray, Scotland active No. 1 Group\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/lossiemouth\/\">Royal Air Force Lossiemouth<\/a> &middot; EGQS<\/span><em>No. 1 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 1 (Fighter) Squadron<small>Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. II (Army Cooperation) Squadron<small>Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 6 Squadron<small>Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. IX (Bomber) Squadron<small>Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. VIII Squadron<small>Airborne early warning squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Wedgetail AEW Mk1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 120 Squadron<small>Maritime patrol squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Poseidon MRA1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 201 Squadron<small>Maritime patrol squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Poseidon MRA1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 42 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron<small>ISTAR operational conversion unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Poseidon MRA1, Wedgetail AEW Mk1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment<small>RAF Regiment field squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2622 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<small>Reserve RAF Regiment squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 4 RAF Police and Security Squadron (Typhoon)<small>RAF Police squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>RAF Mountain Rescue Service<small>Mountain rescue team &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Lincolnshire, England active No. 1 Group\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/coningsby\/\">Royal Air Force Coningsby<\/a> &middot; EGXC<\/span><em>No. 1 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 3 (Fighter) Squadron<small>Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. XI (Fighter) Squadron<small>Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 12 Squadron<small>Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 29 Squadron<small>Typhoon operational conversion unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon T3<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. XLI Test and Evaluation Squadron<small>Test and evaluation squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Battle of Britain Memorial Flight<small>Historic flight &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\">Spitfire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hurricane\/\">Hurricane<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-lancaster\/\">Lancaster<\/a>, Dakota, Chipmunk<\/dd>\n<dt>Typhoon Display Team<small>Display team &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Air Land Integration Cell<small>Support unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Norfolk, England active No. 1 Group\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/marham\/\">Royal Air Force Marham<\/a> &middot; EGYM<\/span><em>No. 1 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 617 Squadron<small>Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lightning F-35B<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 207 Squadron<small>Lightning operational conversion unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lightning F-35B<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>809 Naval Air Squadron<small>Fleet Air Arm fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lightning F-35B<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Lightning Force Headquarters<small>Force headquarters &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment<small>RAF Regiment field squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2620 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<small>Reserve RAF Regiment squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 6 RAF Police and Security Squadron (F35)<small>RAF Police squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Oxfordshire, England active Air Mobility Force, No. 1 Group\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/brize-norton\/\">Royal Air Force Brize Norton<\/a> &middot; EGVN<\/span><em>Air Mobility Force, No. 1 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 10 Squadron<small>Air-to-air refuelling and transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Voyager KC2\/KC3<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 101 Squadron<small>Air-to-air refuelling and transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Voyager KC2\/KC3<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 99 Squadron<small>Strategic transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Globemaster C-17A<\/dd>\n<dt>No. XXIV Squadron<small>Air mobility training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Globemaster C-17A, Atlas C1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 30 Squadron<small>Tactical transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Atlas C1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. LXX Squadron<small>Tactical transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Atlas C1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 206 Test and Evaluation Squadron<small>Test and evaluation squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Atlas C1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. II Squadron RAF Regiment<small>RAF Regiment field squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 501 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 622 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve air transport squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 4624 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve movements squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 4626 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve aeromedical squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2624 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<small>Reserve RAF Regiment squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>UK Mobile Air Movements Squadron<small>Movements squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">No. 47 Squadron<small>&mdash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Hercules C4\/C5<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Lincolnshire, England active ISTAR Force, No. 1 Group\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/waddington\/\">Royal Air Force Waddington<\/a> &middot; EGXW<\/span><em>ISTAR Force, No. 1 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. XIII Squadron<small>Remotely piloted air system squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Protector RG Mk 1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 31 Squadron<small>Remotely piloted air system squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Protector RG Mk 1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 14 Squadron<small>ISTAR squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Shadow R1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 51 Squadron<small>Signals intelligence squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>RC-135W Rivet Joint<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 54 Squadron<small>ISTAR operational conversion unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>RC-135W Rivet Joint, Shadow R1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 56 Test and Evaluation Squadron<small>Test and evaluation squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 92 Squadron<small>Tactics and training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team<small>Red Arrows &middot; Display team &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">Hawk T1<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 616 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve ISTAR squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2 ISR Squadron<small>Intelligence squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 3 ISR Squadron<small>Intelligence squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2503 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<small>Reserve RAF Regiment squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 5 RAF Police and Security Squadron (ISTAR)<small>RAF Police squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Hampshire, England active Joint Aviation Command\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Odiham &middot; EGVO<\/span><em>Joint Aviation Command<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 7 Squadron<small>Support helicopter squadron &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 18 Squadron<small>Support helicopter squadron &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 27 Squadron<small>Support helicopter squadron &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Chinook Role Demonstration Team<small>Display team &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Oxfordshire, England active Joint Aviation Command\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Benson &middot; EGUB<\/span><em>Joint Aviation Command<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 28 (Army Cooperation) Squadron<small>Support helicopter operational conversion unit &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. XXII Squadron<small>Operational evaluation unit &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Jupiter HC2 interim medium helicopter<small>Flying unit &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Jupiter HC2<\/dd>\n<dt>Joint Helicopter Support Squadron<small>Support squadron &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 606 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Oxford University Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 6 Air Experience Flight<small>Air experience flight &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">No. 33 Squadron<small>&mdash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Puma HC2<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">No. 230 Squadron<small>&mdash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Puma HC2<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Anglesey, Wales active No. 4 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Valley &middot; EGOV<\/span><em>No. 4 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. IV Squadron<small>Advanced fast-jet training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">Hawk T2<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. XXV (Fighter) Squadron<small>Advanced fast-jet training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">Hawk T2<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 72 Squadron<small>Basic fast-jet training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Texan T1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 202 Squadron<small>Helicopter training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/dd>\n<dt>RAF Mountain Rescue Service<small>Mountain rescue team &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Shropshire, England active No. 1 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Shawbury &middot; EGOS<\/span><em>No. 1 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 60 Squadron<small>Helicopter training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/dd>\n<dt>660 Squadron Army Air Corps<small>Army helicopter training squadron &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/dd>\n<dt>670 Squadron Army Air Corps<small>Army helicopter training squadron &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/dd>\n<dt>705 Naval Air Squadron<small>Royal Navy helicopter training squadron &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/dd>\n<dt>Central Flying School (Helicopter)<small>Instructor training unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Juno HT1, Jupiter HT1<\/dd>\n<dt>Defence College of Air and Space Operations<small>Training college &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Aircraft Maintenance and Storage Unit<small>Maintenance and storage unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Lincolnshire, England active No. 3 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force College Cranwell &middot; EGYD<\/span><em>No. 3 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 45 Squadron<small>Multi-engine pilot training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Phenom T1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. LVII Squadron<small>Elementary flying training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Prefect T1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 3 Flying Training School<small>Flying training school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Prefect T1, Phenom T1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. VI Flying Training School<small>Flying training school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Tutor T1<\/dd>\n<dt>Central Flying School<small>Instructor training unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>East Midlands Universities Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Tutor T1<\/dd>\n<dt>RAF Officer Training Academy<small>Officer training unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 8 RAF Police and Security Squadron<small>RAF Police squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Cambridgeshire, England active RAF Support Force, No. 2 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Wittering &middot; EGXT<\/span><em>RAF Support Force, No. 2 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 16 Squadron<small>Elementary flying training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Tutor T1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 115 Squadron<small>Instructor training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Tutor T1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 504 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Tutor T1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 71 (Inspection and Repair) Squadron<small>Aircraft repair squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 93 (Expeditionary Armaments) Squadron<small>Armaments squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 5001 Squadron<small>Expeditionary airfield engineering squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Joint Aircraft Recovery and Transportation Squadron<small>Aircraft recovery squadron &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 1 Expeditionary Logistics Squadron<small>Logistics squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Cambridge University Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Tutor T1<\/dd>\n<dt>University of London Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Tutor T1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 5 Air Experience Flight<small>Air experience flight &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Tutor T1<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Harrier Force at Wittering<small>1969&ndash;2010<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Harrier GR3, GR5, GR7 and GR9<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Greater London, England active No. 2 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Northolt &middot; EGWU<\/span><em>No. 2 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. XXXII Squadron<small>Command support air transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Envoy IV CC1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 601 (County of London) Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 63 Squadron RAF Regiment<small>Queen&rsquo;s Colour Squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 1 Aeronautical Information Documents Unit<small>Aeronautical information unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"North Yorkshire, England active No. 2 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Leeming &middot; EGXE<\/span><em>No. 2 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 100 Squadron<small>Aggressor and joint terminal attack control squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment<small>RAF Regiment field squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 607 (County of Durham) Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 609 (West Riding) Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standardisation Unit<small>Training unit &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt>Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt>Tactical Communications Wing<small>Communications wing &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Western Sovereign Base Area, Cyprus active British Forces Cyprus\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/akrotiri\/\">Royal Air Force Akrotiri<\/a> &middot; LCRA<\/span><em>British Forces Cyprus<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 84 Squadron<small>Search and rescue and firefighting squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Jupiter HC2<\/dd>\n<dt>Cyprus Operations Support Unit<small>Support unit &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Griffin and Puma at Akrotiri<small>2023&ndash;2025<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Griffin HAR2, Puma HC2<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"East Falkland, Falkland Islands active British Forces South Atlantic Islands\">\n<div><span>Mount Pleasant Complex &middot; EGYP<\/span><em>British Forces South Atlantic Islands<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 1435 Flight<small>Fighter flight &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Typhoon FGR4<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>No. 1312 Flight<small>Air-to-air refuelling and transport flight &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Voyager KC3, Atlas C1<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 1310 Flight<small>Support helicopter flight &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinook HC6A<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Gibraltar active British Forces Gibraltar\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Gibraltar &middot; LXGB<\/span><em>British Forces Gibraltar<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Royal Air Force Gibraltar<small>Station flight and airfield operations &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Merseyside, England active No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Woodvale &middot; EGOW<\/span><em>No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Manchester and Salford Universities Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt>Liverpool University Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 10 Air Experience Flight<small>Air experience flight &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Final operational RAF Spitfire flight<small>&mdash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Spitfire PR XIX<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Nottinghamshire, England active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Syerston &middot; EGXY<\/span><em>No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 2 Flying Training School<small>Flying training school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Viking T1 glider, Robin DR400<\/dd>\n<dt>Central Gliding School<small>Instructor training unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Viking T1 glider<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 644 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<small>Volunteer gliding squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Viking T1 glider<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Shropshire, England active Defence College of Technical Training, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Cosford &middot; EGWC<\/span><em>Defence College of Technical Training, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>University of Birmingham Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 1 School of Technical Training<small>Training school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2 School of Technical Training<small>Training school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 1 Radio School<small>Training school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Defence School of Photography<small>Training school &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Suffolk, England active RAF Regiment and RAF Police headquarters, No. 2 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Honington &middot; EGXH<\/span><em>RAF Regiment and RAF Police headquarters, No. 2 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment<small>RAF Regiment field squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2623 Squadron RAuxAF Regiment<small>Reserve RAF Regiment squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 3 RAF Police (Reserve) Squadron<small>Reserve RAF Police squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2 RAF Police Counter Intelligence Squadron<small>RAF Police squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 611 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<small>Volunteer gliding squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Buckinghamshire, England active No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Halton &middot; EGWN<\/span><em>No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 7644 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve media squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Aviator Training Academy<small>Training unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Central Training School<small>Training unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">School of Technical Training and the Aircraft Apprentice Scheme<small>1917&ndash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Wiltshire, England active Defence Equipment and Support, operated by QinetiQ\">\n<div><span>Ministry of Defence Boscombe Down &middot; EGDM<\/span><em>Defence Equipment and Support, operated by QinetiQ<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Empire Test Pilots&rsquo; School<small>Test pilot school &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"County Antrim, Northern Ireland active Joint Aviation Command\">\n<div><span>Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station Aldergrove &middot; EGAA<\/span><em>Joint Aviation Command<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Fife, Scotland active British Army, with an RAF aerodrome unit\">\n<div><span>Leuchars Station &middot; EGQL<\/span><em>British Army, with an RAF aerodrome unit<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Leuchars Aerodrome<small>Aerodrome unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 612 (County of Aberdeen) Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve aeromedical squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>East of Scotland Universities Air Squadron<small>University air squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">RAF air defence at Leuchars<small>1920&ndash;2014<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Type not stated<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Lincolnshire, England active No. 3 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Barkston Heath &middot; EGYE<\/span><em>No. 3 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Relief landing ground for Cranwell<small>Relief landing ground &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Anglesey, Wales active No. 4 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Mona &middot; EGOQ<\/span><em>No. 4 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Relief landing ground for Valley<small>Relief landing ground &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"North Yorkshire, England active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Topcliffe &middot; EGXZ<\/span><em>No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Volunteer gliding at Topcliffe<small>Volunteer gliding squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Gloucestershire, England active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Little Rissington &middot; EGVL<\/span><em>No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 637 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<small>Volunteer gliding squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Greater London, England active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Kenley &middot; EGKN<\/span><em>No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 615 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<small>Volunteer gliding squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Viking T1 glider<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Midlothian, Scotland active No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Kirknewton &middot; EGKT<\/span><em>No. 2 Flying Training School, No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 661 Volunteer Gliding Squadron<small>Volunteer gliding squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Type not stated<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Cornwall, England active No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force St Mawgan &middot; <\/span><em>No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 505 Squadron RAuxAF<small>Reserve squadron &middot; reserve<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Defence Survive, Evade, Resist and Extract Training Organisation<small>Training organisation &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Maritime reconnaissance at St Mawgan<small>1951&ndash;2008<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Lancaster, Sea King HAR3<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Northumberland, England active Air Command and Control Force, No. 11 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Boulmer &middot; <\/span><em>Air Command and Control Force, No. 11 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. XIX Squadron<small>Air battle management squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 20 Squadron<small>Air battle management training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 144 Signals Unit<small>Signals unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 9 RAF Police and Security Squadron (Air C2 and Space)<small>RAF Police squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Control and Reporting Centre<small>Operations centre &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"North Yorkshire, England active UK Space Command\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Fylingdales &middot; <\/span><em>UK Space Command<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 2 Space Warning Squadron<small>Space warning squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Lincolnshire, England active Joint Service Signals Organisation\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Digby &middot; <\/span><em>Joint Service Signals Organisation<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Joint Service Signals Unit Digby<small>Signals intelligence unit &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 591 Signals Unit<small>Signals unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 399 Signals Unit<small>Signals unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Aerial Erectors School<small>Training school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Fighter station and RCAF Station Digby<small>1918&ndash;1955<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Spitfire, Mosquito<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Buckinghamshire, England active Headquarters Air Command\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force High Wycombe &middot; <\/span><em>Headquarters Air Command<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Headquarters Air Command<small>Service headquarters &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 1 Group<small>Group headquarters &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 2 Group<small>Group headquarters &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 11 Group<small>Group headquarters &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 22 Group<small>Group headquarters &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 1 Space Operations Squadron<small>Space operations squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>European Air Group<small>Multinational headquarters &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Bedfordshire, England active No. 22 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Henlow &middot; <\/span><em>No. 22 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine<small>Aviation medicine unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Joint Arms Control Implementation Group<small>Arms control unit &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Forensic Exploitation Flight<small>Forensic unit &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Cumbria, England active Air and Space Warfare Centre\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Spadeadam &middot; <\/span><em>Air and Space Warfare Centre<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Electronic Warfare Tactics Range<small>Range &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Cambridgeshire, England active UK Strategic Command\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Wyton &middot; <\/span><em>UK Strategic Command<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence<small>Intelligence centre &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic)<small>Army regiment &middot; joint<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Pathfinder Force<small>1942&ndash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Mosquito, Lancaster<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Hampshire, England active No. 11 Group\">\n<div><span>Royal Air Force Swanwick &middot; <\/span><em>No. 11 Group<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>No. 78 Squadron<small>Air traffic management squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Ascension Island active Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands\">\n<div><span>Ascension Island Base &middot; <\/span><em>Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Ascension Island Base<small>Station headquarters &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>No assigned aircraft<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"qnone\" data-none=\"unitfind\">No unit matches that search.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"timeline\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Air Force milestones, 1914 to today<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1918<\/div>\n<p>1 April: the Royal Air Force is formed by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, the first independent air force in the world. Hugh Trenchard had become the first Chief of the Air Staff on 18 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1922<\/div>\n<p>1 October: the RAF takes over military command in Iraq under the air control doctrine agreed at the Cairo Conference of 1921 &mdash; the first time an airman directed all military operations in a country. The same method is applied on the North-West Frontier, in Aden, Transjordan and Sudan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1936<\/div>\n<p>Fighter, Bomber, Coastal and Training Commands are formed. Hugh Dowding takes Fighter Command and begins building the radar, reporting and control network that becomes the Dowding System.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1940<\/div>\n<p>10 July to 31 October: the Battle of Britain. The RAF counts 2,945 aircrew as having flown in it, 544 of whom were killed; 312 ground personnel died on the ground. About one in five of the aircrew were not British.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1942<\/div>\n<p>14 February: the area bombing directive. Arthur Harris takes over Bomber Command a week later. Over the war Bomber Command flies 501,536 sorties, loses 8,325 aircraft and 55,573 aircrew killed, and drops just over a million tonnes of bombs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1945<\/div>\n<p>13&ndash;15 February: the attack on Dresden, the sharpest point of an argument about area bombing that is still running. Bomber Command aircrew receive no campaign medal until the Bomber Command Clasp is announced in December 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1948<\/div>\n<p>26 June: the Berlin Airlift begins. At its peak the RAF flies around 400 missions a day in Operation Plainfare, delivering nearly 400,000 tons and evacuating more than 130,000 people &mdash; close to a quarter of all Allied supplies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1955<\/div>\n<p>The Vickers Valiant enters service and the RAF takes on the British strategic nuclear deterrent, joined by the Vulcan from 1956 and the Victor from 1957.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1957<\/div>\n<p>Duncan Sandys&rsquo;s Defence White Paper declares that guided missiles will replace manned fighters and cancels a generation of British aircraft. The industry never fully recovers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1965<\/div>\n<p>6 April: TSR-2 is cancelled in the Budget, seven months after its first flight, and the tooling is destroyed. Two airframes survive, at Duxford and Cosford.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1969<\/div>\n<p>The Royal Navy&rsquo;s Polaris submarines take over the strategic deterrent, ending the RAF&rsquo;s primary nuclear role after thirteen years. The service keeps the tactical WE.177 bomb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1982<\/div>\n<p>1 May: the first Black Buck mission. A Vulcan flies almost 6,600 nautical miles from Ascension to Port Stanley and back, supported by up to eleven Victor tankers, and puts a bomb through the runway. Five of seven planned missions are completed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1991<\/div>\n<p>The Gulf War. The RAF deploys 157 aircraft including 49 Tornado GR1s, 18 Tornado F3s and 12 Jaguars, flies 6,108 sorties in Desert Storm and loses six Tornado GR1s in action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1998<\/div>\n<p>22 April: the last WE.177 nuclear weapons are withdrawn. For the first time since 1955 the United Kingdom has no air-delivered nuclear weapon, and will not have one again until the F-35A arrives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2010<\/div>\n<p>19 October: the Strategic Defence and Security Review retires the Harrier and the Nimrod MR2 and cancels the Nimrod MRA4, whose completed airframes are cut up. The National Audit Office later puts the waste at 3.4 billion pounds. Nine years follow with no maritime patrol aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2019<\/div>\n<p>The Tornado is retired after 39 years, having flown in every major British air campaign since 1991. The Shorts Tucano goes the same year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2021<\/div>\n<p>The E-3D Sentry and the Sentinel R1 leave service before their replacements arrive, and the Wedgetail order is cut from five aircraft to three in the Integrated Review. The Defence Committee later calls the cut &quot;the most perverse&quot; decision in the command paper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2023<\/div>\n<p>28 June: the last RAF Hercules flight, after 56 years. The Atlas C1 takes over as the main air mobility platform and the Defence Committee warns that special forces support has been squeezed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2025<\/div>\n<p>2 June: the Strategic Defence Review. On 25 June the government announces twelve F-35As and a return to NATO&rsquo;s nuclear sharing mission, the first British air-delivered nuclear role since 1998. The Puma retires in March after 54 years, Protector enters service on 16 June and the Reaper flies its last mission on 3 October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2026<\/div>\n<p>The first Wedgetail AEW1 arrives at RAF Lossiemouth at the end of May. On 1 September Air Command is redesignated Air and Space Command, and on 23 September the RAF announces No. III Space Effects Squadron &mdash; the RAF&rsquo;s first dedicated offensive and defensive space unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"combat\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Combat record<\/div>\n<h2>Every war the Royal Air Force has fought<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Sorties and losses where the record gives them, and an honest blank where it does not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"statstrip dark\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>22<\/b><span>conflicts<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1918<\/b><span>First<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>8,332<\/b><span>Aircraft lost<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>56,445<\/b><span>Killed<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"gl cml\">\n<li><b>The First World War<\/b> <span class=\"de\">1918<\/span> Inherited the air war on 1 April 1918 from the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, and fought the last seven months of it in every theatre, including the first sustained strategic bombing campaign against German industrial cities<\/li>\n<li><b>Air control and imperial policing<\/b> <span class=\"de\">1919&ndash;1939<\/span> Policed British mandated and colonial territory from the air, taking over from ground garrisons<\/li>\n<li><b>The Battle of France<\/b> <span class=\"de\">1939&ndash;1940<\/span> Fought the air campaign over France and the Low Countries with an expeditionary force of bombers and fighters, and covered the evacuation from Dunkirk<\/li>\n<li><b>The Battle of Britain<\/b> <span class=\"de\">1940<\/span> Defended the United Kingdom against the Luftwaffe&rsquo;s attempt to win air superiority as a precondition for invasion, using the world&rsquo;s first integrated air defence system<\/li>\n<li><b>The strategic bombing offensive<\/b> <span class=\"de\">1939&ndash;1945<\/span> Flew the British strategic bombing campaign against German industry, transport and cities, and from 1944 against the invasion&rsquo;s transport targets and the V-weapon sites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"cbig\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-kingdom-royal-air-force\/combat-record\/\">Open the full combat record<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"news\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">From the magazine<\/div>\n<h2>Royal Air Force news from Afterburner<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Everything MiGFlug&rsquo;s magazine has published on the Royal Air Force and the aircraft it flies. <span class=\"imp\">This list refreshes itself &mdash; new Afterburner stories appear here automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ngrid\" id=\"newsgrid\" data-cats=\"664,670,666\" data-term=\"Royal Air Force\" data-match=\"\\bRAF\\b|Royal Air Force|Red Arrows|Lossiemouth|Coningsby|Marham|Brize Norton|Waddington|Akrotiri|Battle of Britain|Bomber Command|Dam ?busters|\\bVulcan\\b|Victor tanker|Spitfire|Hurricane|Lancaster|Tornado GR|TSR-2|Black Buck|Wedgetail|Typhoon FGR|\\bGCAP\\b|Tempest|Harrier|Nimrod|Buccaneer|English Electric|Hawker Hunter|Gloster Meteor|Trenchard|Dowding|Pathfinder\" data-reject=\"RAAF|RNZAF|RCAF|Royal Australian|Royal Canadian|Royal New Zealand|Hurricane Hunter|Katrina|AV-8B|Marine Corps|Sea Harrier|Red Star|ATAC|Bill Lancaster|Fairford|Lakenheath|Mildenhall\"><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/raf-hawk-t2-crash-raf-valley-anglesey-fleet-paused-2026\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph104\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-24\">24 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">RAF Hawk T2 Crash at Valley: Both Pilots Eject, Fleet Paused<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">A Hawk T2 went down near Pencarnisiog minutes after taking off from RAF Valley. Both crew ejected. By Wednesday evening the RAF had paused the whole Hawk fleet.<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/raf-voyager-tanker-saudi-arabia-houthi-air-defence-2026\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph105\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-23\">23 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">RAF Voyager Deploys to Help Defend Saudi Airspace<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">Britain is sending a single Voyager tanker to support Saudi defences against Houthi missiles and drones &mdash; the first foreign military help Riyadh has received for this fight.<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/skybolt-blue-streak-nassau-1962-british-deterrent\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph106\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-17\">17 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">Skybolt and Blue Streak: How the RAF Lost Britain&rsquo;s Bomb<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">Britain cancelled its own missile, bet the deterrent on an American one, and lost that too. At Nassau it got Polaris instead, and with it the RAF lost the job it was built for.<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/hardest-day-18-august-1940-battle-of-britain\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph107\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-16\">16 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">The Hardest Day: 18 August 1940 Cost More Than Battle of Britain Day<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">The Battle of Britain has a famous date, and it is 15 September. It is not the day that cost the most. That was Sunday 18 August 1940, when the Luftwaffe made an all-out attempt to destroy RAF Fighter Command.<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/raf-pathfinder-force-no-8-group-target-marking\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph108\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-14\">14 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">RAF Pathfinders: The Squadrons That Lit the Target<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">In 1941 a civil servant counted the photographs and found Bomber Command was ploughing fields. The Pathfinders were the answer, and the answer was technical rather than moral.<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/battle-of-barking-creek-1939-raf-friendly-fire\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph109\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-08\">8 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">Barking Creek 1939: The RAF Shot Down Its Own Fighters<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">Three days into the war, a radar fault sent RAF squadrons after a raid that did not exist. Spitfires shot down two Hurricanes and killed the first British fighter pilot of the war.<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"nmore\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/\">All stories in Afterburner<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/div>\n<h2>Everything people ask about the Royal Air Force<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open>\n<summary>What aircraft does the Royal Air Force fly in 2026?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The combat fleet is the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\">Eurofighter Typhoon<\/a> FGR4 &mdash; 124 airframes on charge at 1 April 2026, 111 of them in service &mdash; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">Lightning F-35B<\/a>, 47 aircraft shared with the Royal Navy. Behind them sit nine Poseidon MRA1 maritime patrol aircraft, three Wedgetail AEW1, three Rivet Joint, eight Shadow R1, 16 Protector RG1, 22 Atlas C1, eight C-17 Globemasters, 14 Voyager tankers, 45 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\">Chinooks<\/a> and the training fleets of <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">Hawk<\/a> T1 and T2, Texan, Prefect, Phenom, Tutor, Viking, Juno and Jupiter.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many people are in the RAF?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">31,392 UK Regular Forces at 1 July 2026, of whom 27,851 are trained &mdash; 6,997 officers and 20,854 other ranks. Counting reserves, all RAF service personnel number 35,978. The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and Royal Auxiliary Air Force add 3,097, the serving ex-regular reserve 1,288 and sponsored reserves 201. The service has grown slightly for the first time in years: regular strength is up 2.8 per cent on 2025.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Who is the head of the Royal Air Force?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth has been Chief of the Air Staff since 29 August 2025. He is a former Harrier pilot who flew over Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan, commanded No. 4 Squadron and No. 1 Group, and was the Ministry of Defence&rsquo;s first Director Space. He succeeded Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton, who became Chief of the Defence Staff. He is accountable to the Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, who was appointed on 20 July 2026.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is the RAF the oldest air force in the world?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">It is the oldest independent air force, which is the claim that matters. It was formed on 1 April 1918 by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service into a third armed service with its own ministry. Military flying units existed earlier in several countries &mdash; the Royal Flying Corps itself dates from 1912 &mdash; but they were branches of armies and navies. The idea that air power needs a service of its own starts here, and every independent air force in the world is descended from the argument.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why was the Royal Air Force created?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Because of the Gotha bomber raids on London in 1917. They showed that an enemy could attack a country&rsquo;s cities directly and that no single British authority was responsible for stopping it or doing the same in return. Jan Smuts wrote a report recommending a separate air service and a separate air ministry; the Air Council was formed in January 1918 and the Royal Air Force followed on 1 April. Hugh Trenchard, appointed the first Chief of the Air Staff on 18 January 1918, then spent the 1920s keeping it independent.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What was air control and why is it controversial?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Air control was how the RAF justified its existence in the 1920s: policing imperial territory by bombing rather than by garrison, because it was cheaper. At the Cairo Conference of 1921 Trenchard proposed that the RAF take over military command in Iraq, and on 1 October 1922 it did &mdash; the first time an airman commanded all military operations in a country. It was also used on the North-West Frontier, in Aden, Transjordan, Somaliland and Sudan. The RAF&rsquo;s own Air Power Review has assessed it critically: the method held whole communities responsible for individual acts, the bombing was inaccurate &mdash; 102 of 182 bombs missed in one November 1928 operation &mdash; and populations adapted. The service&rsquo;s independence was bought partly by bombing villages, and the RAF now says so itself.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What actually won the Battle of Britain?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Dowding System, not the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\">Spitfire<\/a>. Chain Home radar detected raids forming over France, the 30,000-strong Observer Corps tracked them inland, filter rooms resolved the plots and sector operations rooms turned them into interception orders by telephone. It was the first integrated air defence system anywhere and it allowed an outnumbered force to be in the right place. The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hurricane\/\">Hurricane<\/a> did most of the actual shooting: it equipped more squadrons and destroyed more German aircraft than everything else combined.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many pilots flew in the Battle of Britain and how many died?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The RAF counts 2,945 aircrew as having flown at least one authorised sortie with Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940. 544 of them were killed during the battle and another 795 before the war ended. A further 312 RAF ground personnel were killed on the ground. The Battle of Britain London Monument&rsquo;s roll of clasp holders gives 2,937 rather than 2,945; the difference is a matter of how marginal cases are counted. About one in five of the aircrew were not British: the roll gives 145 Poles, 127 New Zealanders, 112 Canadians, 88 Czechoslovaks, 32 Australians, 28 Belgians, 25 South Africans, 13 French, 10 Irish, nine Americans, three Rhodesians and one man each from Barbados, Jamaica and Newfoundland. No. 303 (Polish) Squadron was among the highest-scoring units in the battle.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many Bomber Command aircrew were killed in the Second World War?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">55,573, out of about 125,000 who served &mdash; a death rate near 45 per cent, worse than any other major arm of the British forces in either world war. A further 8,403 were wounded and 9,838 taken prisoner, and more than 8,000 died in training accidents. The Imperial War Museum puts the odds plainly: 51 per cent killed on operations, 12 per cent killed or wounded in accidents, 13 per cent prisoners or evaders, and 24 per cent came through unharmed. Bomber Command flew 501,536 sorties and lost 8,325 aircraft.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why did Bomber Command crews not get a campaign medal?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Because area bombing became politically uncomfortable almost as soon as the war ended. Winston Churchill&rsquo;s victory broadcast did not mention Bomber Command, Arthur Harris was the only major British commander not given a peerage at the time, and no campaign star was struck. The crews received nothing specific to their service until the Bomber Command Clasp, worn on the 1939&ndash;1945 Star, was announced in December 2012. The memorial in Green Park was unveiled on 28 June 2012, sixty-seven years after the war. Most of the 55,573 dead had no surviving comrades left to see either.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Was the bombing of Dresden a war crime?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">That argument has run for eighty years and this page does not settle it. What is documented: Bomber Command attacked Dresden on the night of 13 February 1945 and the United States Army Air Forces followed by day on 14 and 15 February; the city burned; the death toll is estimated in a wide range and the figures circulated at the time and since by various parties have been both inflated and minimised. The official British position was that Dresden was a legitimate transport and industrial target supporting the Eastern Front. The honest summary is that the raid was within the policy then in force, that the policy itself is what is disputed, and that the aircrew who flew it were carrying out orders from the government of the day.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>When did the RAF have nuclear weapons?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">From 1955 to 1998. The V-force &mdash; the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/vickers-valiant\/\">Valiant<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-vulcan\/\">Vulcan<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-victor\/\">Victor<\/a> &mdash; carried the British strategic deterrent from 1955, with Blue Danube, then Yellow Sun and the Blue Steel stand-off missile. The American cancellation of Skybolt in December 1962 and the Nassau agreement that followed handed the deterrent to the Royal Navy, and Polaris took over in 1969. The RAF kept the tactical WE.177 bomb until the last were withdrawn on 22 April 1998. From then until 2025 Britain had no air-delivered nuclear weapon at all.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is the RAF getting nuclear weapons again?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes, in the NATO sense. On 25 June 2025 the government announced the purchase of twelve F-35A aircraft, which will be available to fly NATO&rsquo;s nuclear deterrence mission in a crisis. That is the first British air-delivered nuclear role since the WE.177 was withdrawn in 1998. The weapons involved would be American B61-12 bombs held under NATO nuclear sharing arrangements, not British warheads; Britain&rsquo;s own deterrent remains the Royal Navy&rsquo;s Trident force. The aircraft go to No. 207 Squadron at RAF Marham, where they will also be used as trainers. The link between the two is less tidy than the announcement made it sound: in July 2026 the RAF&rsquo;s Director Capability and Programmes, Air Vice-Marshal Jim Beck, said the twelve aircraft had been bought for the conversion units and that the nuclear role was a separate matter.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why was TSR-2 cancelled?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">It was cancelled in the Budget of 6 April 1965, seven months after its first flight on 27 September 1964, on cost grounds, in favour of buying the American F-111K &mdash; which was itself cancelled in 1968. The jigs and tooling were destroyed and two airframes survive, at Duxford and Cosford. TSR-2 is the most mythologised event in British aviation and the myth should be kept separate from the record. The decision, the stated reasons and the destruction of the tooling are documented. The persistent claims of deliberate sabotage and direct American pressure are not, and repeating them as fact does the real story no favours. TSR-2 followed Duncan Sandys&rsquo;s 1957 Defence White Paper, which had declared that guided missiles would replace manned fighters and cancelled a generation of British aircraft; between the two decisions the British fighter and bomber design teams broke up, and every British combat aircraft since has been a collaboration or an American purchase.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What were the Black Buck raids?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Seven bombing missions planned against Port Stanley during the 1982 Falklands campaign, of which five were completed. A single <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-vulcan\/\">Vulcan<\/a> flew almost 6,600 nautical miles from Ascension Island and back, about sixteen hours, supported by a chain of up to eleven Victor tankers refuelling each other so that one bomber could reach the target. On the first mission, on 1 May 1982, twenty-one 1,000 lb bombs were dropped across the runway and one hit the centre of it. They were the longest-range bombing raids anyone had flown at the time. The physical damage was modest; the effect was that Argentine fast jets could not use the airfield and Mirage IIIs were withdrawn to defend the mainland.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many aircraft did the RAF lose in the 1991 Gulf War?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Six <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/panavia-tornado\/\">Tornado<\/a> GR1s were lost in action, most of them in the first fortnight, when the force was attacking Iraqi airfields from fifty feet with JP233 runway-denial weapons in heavy anti-aircraft fire. Accounts differ on the total once non-combat accidents are included: the Air Historical Branch describes four GR1s lost in the early airfield missions with four aircrew killed and four captured but gives no consolidated total, while other accounts give eight Tornados lost overall. The RAF deployed 157 aircraft and about 6,000 people and flew 6,108 sorties during Desert Storm.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What happened to the Nimrod MRA4?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">It was cancelled on 19 October 2010 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review, about 789 million pounds over budget and more than nine years late, and the completed airframes were cut up at Woodford from January 2011. Twenty-one had been ordered, the order was cut to nine, and five were built. The National Audit Office concluded in February 2012 that the cancellation wasted 3.4 billion pounds; other accounts put the total spend nearer 4 billion. Britain then went nine years with no maritime patrol aircraft of any kind, until the first Boeing Poseidon MRA1 reached RAF Lossiemouth on 4 February 2020. The gap was covered by borrowing allied aircraft.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why did the RAF retire the Harrier in 2010?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review had to choose between the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\">Harrier<\/a> GR9 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/panavia-tornado\/\">Tornado<\/a> GR4, and chose the Tornado on the grounds that it was more capable and more numerous and was then flying in Afghanistan. The Harrier went at once: the last RAF sorties were in December 2010 and the airframes were sold to the United States Marine Corps for spares. It left Britain with no fixed-wing carrier aviation at all until the F-35B arrived, a gap of roughly eight years, at the same time as the new carriers were being built.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the Wedgetail and why are there only three?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Wedgetail AEW1 is a converted Boeing 737 with a Northrop Grumman MESA radar that does airborne early warning and control &mdash; finding and tracking aircraft and ships, and directing fighters and tankers. Five were ordered in 2019 and the order was cut to three in the 2021 Integrated Review. The Defence Committee called that &quot;the most perverse&quot; decision in the command paper: a 40 per cent capability cut for a 12 per cent acquisition saving, leaving Britain unable to meet its NATO commitment. The E-3D Sentry was retired in 2021, so there was no airborne early warning aircraft at all until the first Wedgetail reached RAF Lossiemouth at the end of May 2026.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What replaced the RAF Hercules?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Atlas C1, the Airbus A400M. The last <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/c-130-hercules\/\">Hercules<\/a> flights were on 28 June 2023 after 56 years, and the 22 Atlases at RAF Brize Norton now do the bulk of RAF air mobility, carrying 30 tonnes over 2,400 nautical miles or 116 passengers. Whether the A400M really covers everything the Hercules did &mdash; short, rough strips and special forces work in particular &mdash; has been argued about ever since. The Defence Committee said in 2023 that the early retirement had &quot;severely reduced&quot; air mobility capacity and hit special forces support hardest.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why are the RAF&rsquo;s Typhoon numbers falling?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Because the Tranche 1 aircraft are being scrapped and nothing is replacing them. Typhoon holdings went from 137 airframes at 1 April 2024 to 124 at 1 April 2026. At 1 July 2025 the fleet was four Tranche 1, 67 Tranche 2 and 40 Tranche 3, and 26 of the 30 Tranche 1 aircraft had already been broken up for spares. The published out-of-service dates are 2027 for Tranche 1 and 2040 for Tranches 2 and 3. No new British order has been placed; ministers have pointed to Turkey&rsquo;s order of October 2025 as filling the production gap at Warton before GCAP.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is GCAP and when does it arrive?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Global Combat Air Programme is a sixth-generation fighter being built with Japan and Italy to replace the Typhoon from 2035, under a treaty signed in December 2023 and ratified by Britain in October 2024. It is often called Tempest in the United Kingdom. The Ministry of Defence had committed 2 billion pounds since 2021 and budgeted more than 12 billion for the next decade, and the Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 added more than 8 billion pounds over four years. A flying demonstrator is in final assembly for a first flight in 2027. No number of aircraft has been announced.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why do some RAF squadrons use Roman numerals?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Tradition, and it is not optional. No. IX (Bomber) Squadron, No. XI (Fighter) Squadron, No. XV Squadron, No. XXIV Squadron, No. XXV (F) Squadron, No. XXXII (The Royal) Squadron, No. XLI Test and Evaluation Squadron, No. LVII Squadron and No. LXX Squadron are written that way by the RAF itself. No. 1 Squadron, No. 6 Squadron, No. 12 Squadron and No. 617 Squadron are not. There is no rule that predicts which is which; you follow the Air Historical Branch and the squadron&rsquo;s own page. Getting it wrong is the fastest way to look like you do not know the subject.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is the F-35 force RAF or Royal Navy?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Both, and the distinction matters. The Lightning Force at RAF Marham is jointly manned: No. 617 Squadron and No. 207 Squadron, the operational conversion unit, are RAF, and 809 Naval Air Squadron is Royal Navy. They fly from HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales as well as from Norfolk. The same joint arrangement works the other way round under Joint Helicopter Command, where RAF Chinook squadrons sit alongside Army Air Corps and Royal Navy units. Describing the whole Lightning Force as RAF is wrong.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is wrong with RAF pilot training?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">There are not enough course places, and students wait. At 1 June 2026, of 119 fast-jet trainees, 36 were on holdover between courses and another 12 were waiting to start an operational conversion unit &mdash; 48 of 119, about 40 per cent, not progressing. The problem is long-standing: more than 300 personnel were held in the pipeline in September 2022, and the Defence Committee called the delays &quot;completely unacceptable&quot; in 2023, noting that the Ministry of Defence would spend over 50 million pounds sending pilots abroad to train while the contractors ran the system faced no penalties. RAF flying training squadrons fell from ten to seven between 2025 and 2026.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What was the RAF recruitment scandal?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">In 2020 and 2021, 161 enlisted aviators who were women or from ethnic minority backgrounds were accelerated onto initial training ahead of other candidates, and 31 men consequently missed the opportunity of a 5,000 pound joining bonus. The head of RAF recruitment resigned over it in August 2022 and a non-statutory inquiry was set up. Its report was published on 29 June 2023. Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton, newly in post, accepted that some men had been discriminated against, apologised unreservedly, committed to paying the men what they had missed, and accepted all twelve of the inquiry&rsquo;s recommendations.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What do the Red Arrows fly and what happens next?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\">Hawk<\/a> T1, which entered RAF service in 1976 and joined the Red Arrows in 1980. The fleet has shrunk from 67 airframes on charge in 2024 to 24 in 2026, with 18 in service; No. 100 Squadron gave up its Hawk T1s on 31 March 2022, leaving the team as effectively the only operator. The Hawk is expected to last to the end of the 2029 display season. The Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 put 360 million pounds into recapitalising military jet training but deliberately did not name an aircraft. The Boeing-Saab T-7A, the Leonardo M-346 and the Korean T-50 are the candidates, and UK workshare is a live political issue.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How big is the RAF compared with the Cold War?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Much smaller, and the comparison is stark. At the end of the Cold War the RAF had tens of thousands more people and several times the number of front-line squadrons, with a substantial force permanently in Germany. In 2026 it has 31,392 regulars, nine combat air squadrons, 124 Typhoons and 47 F-35Bs, and no permanent presence in Germany at all. Set against that, individual aircraft are enormously more capable, the weapons are precise where they were not, and one Typhoon carrying Meteor and Brimstone does things a squadron of Jaguars could not. Whether that trade works in a long war against a peer opponent is the central argument in British defence today.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What does Air and Space Command mean?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">On 1 September 2026 Air Command, the RAF&rsquo;s operational headquarters at RAF High Wycombe, was redesignated Air and Space Command. The RAF has led British military space since the ballistic missile early warning station at Fylingdales in 1963 and the Skynet 1A launch in 1969, but the domain now has three squadrons of its own: No. I Space Operations Squadron at High Wycombe, No. II Space Warning Squadron at Fylingdales and No. III Space Effects Squadron, announced on 23 September 2026 to conduct offensive and defensive space operations. The government has put 880 million pounds into space-based intelligence and control activities for 2026&ndash;27 to 2029&ndash;30.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Where is the RAF based overseas?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">RAF Akrotiri in the Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus is the most important, and has supported every British Middle East operation since 1956; it was struck by an Iranian-made drone on the night of 1&ndash;2 March 2026, though not one launched from Iran. RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands hosts a permanent Typhoon detachment and air transport link established after the 1982 war. There are also RAF Gibraltar and RAF Ascension Island, the staging post that made the Falklands campaign and the Black Buck raids possible. The RAF has had no permanent station in Germany since 2020.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What aircraft does the Royal Air Force fly in 2026?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The combat fleet is the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 \\u2014 124 airframes on charge at 1 April 2026, 111 of them in service \\u2014 and the Lightning F-35B, 47 aircraft shared with the Royal Navy. Behind them sit nine Poseidon MRA1 maritime patrol aircraft, three Wedgetail AEW1, three Rivet Joint, eight Shadow R1, 16 Protector RG1, 22 Atlas C1, eight C-17 Globemasters, 14 Voyager tankers, 45 Chinooks and the training fleets of Hawk T1 and T2, Texan, Prefect, Phenom, Tutor, Viking, Juno and Jupiter.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many people are in the RAF?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"31,392 UK Regular Forces at 1 July 2026, of whom 27,851 are trained \\u2014 6,997 officers and 20,854 other ranks. Counting reserves, all RAF service personnel number 35,978. The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and Royal Auxiliary Air Force add 3,097, the serving ex-regular reserve 1,288 and sponsored reserves 201. 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It was formed on 1 April 1918 by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service into a third armed service with its own ministry. Military flying units existed earlier in several countries \\u2014 the Royal Flying Corps itself dates from 1912 \\u2014 but they were branches of armies and navies. The idea that air power needs a service of its own starts here, and every independent air force in the world is descended from the argument.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why was the Royal Air Force created?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Because of the Gotha bomber raids on London in 1917. They showed that an enemy could attack a country\\u2019s cities directly and that no single British authority was responsible for stopping it or doing the same in return. Jan Smuts wrote a report recommending a separate air service and a separate air ministry; the Air Council was formed in January 1918 and the Royal Air Force followed on 1 April. Hugh Trenchard, appointed the first Chief of the Air Staff on 18 January 1918, then spent the 1920s keeping it independent.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What was air control and why is it controversial?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Air control was how the RAF justified its existence in the 1920s: policing imperial territory by bombing rather than by garrison, because it was cheaper. At the Cairo Conference of 1921 Trenchard proposed that the RAF take over military command in Iraq, and on 1 October 1922 it did \\u2014 the first time an airman commanded all military operations in a country. It was also used on the North-West Frontier, in Aden, Transjordan, Somaliland and Sudan. The RAF\\u2019s own Air Power Review has assessed it critically: the method held whole communities responsible for individual acts, the bombing was inaccurate \\u2014 102 of 182 bombs missed in one November 1928 operation \\u2014 and populations adapted. The service\\u2019s independence was bought partly by bombing villages, and the RAF now says so itself.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What actually won the Battle of Britain?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Dowding System, not the Spitfire. Chain Home radar detected raids forming over France, the 30,000-strong Observer Corps tracked them inland, filter rooms resolved the plots and sector operations rooms turned them into interception orders by telephone. It was the first integrated air defence system anywhere and it allowed an outnumbered force to be in the right place. The Hurricane did most of the actual shooting: it equipped more squadrons and destroyed more German aircraft than everything else combined.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many pilots flew in the Battle of Britain and how many died?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The RAF counts 2,945 aircrew as having flown at least one authorised sortie with Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940. 544 of them were killed during the battle and another 795 before the war ended. A further 312 RAF ground personnel were killed on the ground. The Battle of Britain London Monument\\u2019s roll of clasp holders gives 2,937 rather than 2,945; the difference is a matter of how marginal cases are counted. About one in five of the aircrew were not British: the roll gives 145 Poles, 127 New Zealanders, 112 Canadians, 88 Czechoslovaks, 32 Australians, 28 Belgians, 25 South Africans, 13 French, 10 Irish, nine Americans, three Rhodesians and one man each from Barbados, Jamaica and Newfoundland. No. 303 (Polish) Squadron was among the highest-scoring units in the battle.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many Bomber Command aircrew were killed in the Second World War?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"55,573, out of about 125,000 who served \\u2014 a death rate near 45 per cent, worse than any other major arm of the British forces in either world war. A further 8,403 were wounded and 9,838 taken prisoner, and more than 8,000 died in training accidents. The Imperial War Museum puts the odds plainly: 51 per cent killed on operations, 12 per cent killed or wounded in accidents, 13 per cent prisoners or evaders, and 24 per cent came through unharmed. Bomber Command flew 501,536 sorties and lost 8,325 aircraft.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why did Bomber Command crews not get a campaign medal?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Because area bombing became politically uncomfortable almost as soon as the war ended. Winston Churchill\\u2019s victory broadcast did not mention Bomber Command, Arthur Harris was the only major British commander not given a peerage at the time, and no campaign star was struck. The crews received nothing specific to their service until the Bomber Command Clasp, worn on the 1939\\u20131945 Star, was announced in December 2012. The memorial in Green Park was unveiled on 28 June 2012, sixty-seven years after the war. Most of the 55,573 dead had no surviving comrades left to see either.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Was the bombing of Dresden a war crime?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"That argument has run for eighty years and this page does not settle it. What is documented: Bomber Command attacked Dresden on the night of 13 February 1945 and the United States Army Air Forces followed by day on 14 and 15 February; the city burned; the death toll is estimated in a wide range and the figures circulated at the time and since by various parties have been both inflated and minimised. The official British position was that Dresden was a legitimate transport and industrial target supporting the Eastern Front. The honest summary is that the raid was within the policy then in force, that the policy itself is what is disputed, and that the aircrew who flew it were carrying out orders from the government of the day.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"When did the RAF have nuclear weapons?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"From 1955 to 1998. The V-force \\u2014 the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor \\u2014 carried the British strategic deterrent from 1955, with Blue Danube, then Yellow Sun and the Blue Steel stand-off missile. The American cancellation of Skybolt in December 1962 and the Nassau agreement that followed handed the deterrent to the Royal Navy, and Polaris took over in 1969. The RAF kept the tactical WE.177 bomb until the last were withdrawn on 22 April 1998. From then until 2025 Britain had no air-delivered nuclear weapon at all.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Is the RAF getting nuclear weapons again?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Yes, in the NATO sense. On 25 June 2025 the government announced the purchase of twelve F-35A aircraft, which will be available to fly NATO\\u2019s nuclear deterrence mission in a crisis. That is the first British air-delivered nuclear role since the WE.177 was withdrawn in 1998. The weapons involved would be American B61-12 bombs held under NATO nuclear sharing arrangements, not British warheads; Britain\\u2019s own deterrent remains the Royal Navy\\u2019s Trident force. The aircraft go to No. 207 Squadron at RAF Marham, where they will also be used as trainers. The link between the two is less tidy than the announcement made it sound: in July 2026 the RAF\\u2019s Director Capability and Programmes, Air Vice-Marshal Jim Beck, said the twelve aircraft had been bought for the conversion units and that the nuclear role was a separate matter.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why was TSR-2 cancelled?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"It was cancelled in the Budget of 6 April 1965, seven months after its first flight on 27 September 1964, on cost grounds, in favour of buying the American F-111K \\u2014 which was itself cancelled in 1968. The jigs and tooling were destroyed and two airframes survive, at Duxford and Cosford. TSR-2 is the most mythologised event in British aviation and the myth should be kept separate from the record. The decision, the stated reasons and the destruction of the tooling are documented. The persistent claims of deliberate sabotage and direct American pressure are not, and repeating them as fact does the real story no favours. TSR-2 followed Duncan Sandys\\u2019s 1957 Defence White Paper, which had declared that guided missiles would replace manned fighters and cancelled a generation of British aircraft; between the two decisions the British fighter and bomber design teams broke up, and every British combat aircraft since has been a collaboration or an American purchase.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What were the Black Buck raids?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Seven bombing missions planned against Port Stanley during the 1982 Falklands campaign, of which five were completed. A single Vulcan flew almost 6,600 nautical miles from Ascension Island and back, about sixteen hours, supported by a chain of up to eleven Victor tankers refuelling each other so that one bomber could reach the target. On the first mission, on 1 May 1982, twenty-one 1,000 lb bombs were dropped across the runway and one hit the centre of it. They were the longest-range bombing raids anyone had flown at the time. The physical damage was modest; the effect was that Argentine fast jets could not use the airfield and Mirage IIIs were withdrawn to defend the mainland.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many aircraft did the RAF lose in the 1991 Gulf War?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Six Tornado GR1s were lost in action, most of them in the first fortnight, when the force was attacking Iraqi airfields from fifty feet with JP233 runway-denial weapons in heavy anti-aircraft fire. Accounts differ on the total once non-combat accidents are included: the Air Historical Branch describes four GR1s lost in the early airfield missions with four aircrew killed and four captured but gives no consolidated total, while other accounts give eight Tornados lost overall. The RAF deployed 157 aircraft and about 6,000 people and flew 6,108 sorties during Desert Storm.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What happened to the Nimrod MRA4?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"It was cancelled on 19 October 2010 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review, about 789 million pounds over budget and more than nine years late, and the completed airframes were cut up at Woodford from January 2011. Twenty-one had been ordered, the order was cut to nine, and five were built. The National Audit Office concluded in February 2012 that the cancellation wasted 3.4 billion pounds; other accounts put the total spend nearer 4 billion. Britain then went nine years with no maritime patrol aircraft of any kind, until the first Boeing Poseidon MRA1 reached RAF Lossiemouth on 4 February 2020. The gap was covered by borrowing allied aircraft.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why did the RAF retire the Harrier in 2010?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review had to choose between the Harrier GR9 and the Tornado GR4, and chose the Tornado on the grounds that it was more capable and more numerous and was then flying in Afghanistan. The Harrier went at once: the last RAF sorties were in December 2010 and the airframes were sold to the United States Marine Corps for spares. It left Britain with no fixed-wing carrier aviation at all until the F-35B arrived, a gap of roughly eight years, at the same time as the new carriers were being built.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the Wedgetail and why are there only three?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Wedgetail AEW1 is a converted Boeing 737 with a Northrop Grumman MESA radar that does airborne early warning and control \\u2014 finding and tracking aircraft and ships, and directing fighters and tankers. Five were ordered in 2019 and the order was cut to three in the 2021 Integrated Review. The Defence Committee called that \\\"the most perverse\\\" decision in the command paper: a 40 per cent capability cut for a 12 per cent acquisition saving, leaving Britain unable to meet its NATO commitment. The E-3D Sentry was retired in 2021, so there was no airborne early warning aircraft at all until the first Wedgetail reached RAF Lossiemouth at the end of May 2026.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What replaced the RAF Hercules?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Atlas C1, the Airbus A400M. The last Hercules flights were on 28 June 2023 after 56 years, and the 22 Atlases at RAF Brize Norton now do the bulk of RAF air mobility, carrying 30 tonnes over 2,400 nautical miles or 116 passengers. Whether the A400M really covers everything the Hercules did \\u2014 short, rough strips and special forces work in particular \\u2014 has been argued about ever since. The Defence Committee said in 2023 that the early retirement had \\\"severely reduced\\\" air mobility capacity and hit special forces support hardest.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why are the RAF\\u2019s Typhoon numbers falling?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Because the Tranche 1 aircraft are being scrapped and nothing is replacing them. Typhoon holdings went from 137 airframes at 1 April 2024 to 124 at 1 April 2026. At 1 July 2025 the fleet was four Tranche 1, 67 Tranche 2 and 40 Tranche 3, and 26 of the 30 Tranche 1 aircraft had already been broken up for spares. The published out-of-service dates are 2027 for Tranche 1 and 2040 for Tranches 2 and 3. No new British order has been placed; ministers have pointed to Turkey\\u2019s order of October 2025 as filling the production gap at Warton before GCAP.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is GCAP and when does it arrive?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Global Combat Air Programme is a sixth-generation fighter being built with Japan and Italy to replace the Typhoon from 2035, under a treaty signed in December 2023 and ratified by Britain in October 2024. It is often called Tempest in the United Kingdom. The Ministry of Defence had committed 2 billion pounds since 2021 and budgeted more than 12 billion for the next decade, and the Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 added more than 8 billion pounds over four years. A flying demonstrator is in final assembly for a first flight in 2027. No number of aircraft has been announced.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why do some RAF squadrons use Roman numerals?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Tradition, and it is not optional. No. IX (Bomber) Squadron, No. XI (Fighter) Squadron, No. XV Squadron, No. XXIV Squadron, No. XXV (F) Squadron, No. XXXII (The Royal) Squadron, No. XLI Test and Evaluation Squadron, No. LVII Squadron and No. LXX Squadron are written that way by the RAF itself. No. 1 Squadron, No. 6 Squadron, No. 12 Squadron and No. 617 Squadron are not. There is no rule that predicts which is which; you follow the Air Historical Branch and the squadron\\u2019s own page. Getting it wrong is the fastest way to look like you do not know the subject.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Is the F-35 force RAF or Royal Navy?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Both, and the distinction matters. The Lightning Force at RAF Marham is jointly manned: No. 617 Squadron and No. 207 Squadron, the operational conversion unit, are RAF, and 809 Naval Air Squadron is Royal Navy. They fly from HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales as well as from Norfolk. The same joint arrangement works the other way round under Joint Helicopter Command, where RAF Chinook squadrons sit alongside Army Air Corps and Royal Navy units. Describing the whole Lightning Force as RAF is wrong.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is wrong with RAF pilot training?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"There are not enough course places, and students wait. At 1 June 2026, of 119 fast-jet trainees, 36 were on holdover between courses and another 12 were waiting to start an operational conversion unit \\u2014 48 of 119, about 40 per cent, not progressing. The problem is long-standing: more than 300 personnel were held in the pipeline in September 2022, and the Defence Committee called the delays \\\"completely unacceptable\\\" in 2023, noting that the Ministry of Defence would spend over 50 million pounds sending pilots abroad to train while the contractors ran the system faced no penalties. RAF flying training squadrons fell from ten to seven between 2025 and 2026.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What was the RAF recruitment scandal?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"In 2020 and 2021, 161 enlisted aviators who were women or from ethnic minority backgrounds were accelerated onto initial training ahead of other candidates, and 31 men consequently missed the opportunity of a 5,000 pound joining bonus. The head of RAF recruitment resigned over it in August 2022 and a non-statutory inquiry was set up. Its report was published on 29 June 2023. Air Chief Marshal Sir Rich Knighton, newly in post, accepted that some men had been discriminated against, apologised unreservedly, committed to paying the men what they had missed, and accepted all twelve of the inquiry\\u2019s recommendations.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What do the Red Arrows fly and what happens next?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Hawk T1, which entered RAF service in 1976 and joined the Red Arrows in 1980. The fleet has shrunk from 67 airframes on charge in 2024 to 24 in 2026, with 18 in service; No. 100 Squadron gave up its Hawk T1s on 31 March 2022, leaving the team as effectively the only operator. The Hawk is expected to last to the end of the 2029 display season. The Defence Investment Plan of June 2026 put 360 million pounds into recapitalising military jet training but deliberately did not name an aircraft. The Boeing-Saab T-7A, the Leonardo M-346 and the Korean T-50 are the candidates, and UK workshare is a live political issue.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How big is the RAF compared with the Cold War?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Much smaller, and the comparison is stark. At the end of the Cold War the RAF had tens of thousands more people and several times the number of front-line squadrons, with a substantial force permanently in Germany. In 2026 it has 31,392 regulars, nine combat air squadrons, 124 Typhoons and 47 F-35Bs, and no permanent presence in Germany at all. Set against that, individual aircraft are enormously more capable, the weapons are precise where they were not, and one Typhoon carrying Meteor and Brimstone does things a squadron of Jaguars could not. Whether that trade works in a long war against a peer opponent is the central argument in British defence today.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What does Air and Space Command mean?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"On 1 September 2026 Air Command, the RAF\\u2019s operational headquarters at RAF High Wycombe, was redesignated Air and Space Command. The RAF has led British military space since the ballistic missile early warning station at Fylingdales in 1963 and the Skynet 1A launch in 1969, but the domain now has three squadrons of its own: No. I Space Operations Squadron at High Wycombe, No. II Space Warning Squadron at Fylingdales and No. III Space Effects Squadron, announced on 23 September 2026 to conduct offensive and defensive space operations. The government has put 880 million pounds into space-based intelligence and control activities for 2026\\u201327 to 2029\\u201330.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Where is the RAF based overseas?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"RAF Akrotiri in the Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus is the most important, and has supported every British Middle East operation since 1956; it was struck by an Iranian-made drone on the night of 1\\u20132 March 2026, though not one launched from Iran. RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands hosts a permanent Typhoon detachment and air transport link established after the 1982 war. There are also RAF Gibraltar and RAF Ascension Island, the staging post that made the Falklands campaign and the Black Buck raids possible. The RAF has had no permanent station in Germany since 2020.\"}}]}<\/script><hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Continue the tour<\/div>\n<h2>Read the aircraft the Royal Air Force flew<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Every type with a page in the Book of Beasts, in service first, then by the year it left the fleet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"acgrid\"><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/eurofighter-typhoon\/\"><span class=\"im ph2\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\"><span class=\"im ph3\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Lockheed Martin Lightning F-35B<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ch-47-chinook\/\"><span class=\"im ph12\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Boeing Chinook HC6A<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\"><span class=\"im ph13\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>BAE Systems Hawk T2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bae-hawk\/\"><span class=\"im ph14\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>BAE Systems Hawk T1<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mq-9-reaper\/\"><span class=\"im ph23\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>General Atomics Reaper MQ-9A<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/b><em>2007&ndash;2025<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/c-130-hercules\/\"><span class=\"im ph25\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Lockheed Hercules C1\/C3\/C4\/C5<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/b><em>1967&ndash;2023<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/panavia-tornado\/\"><span class=\"im ph31\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Panavia Tornado GR1\/GR4<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1979&ndash;2019<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/panavia-tornado\/\"><span class=\"im ph36\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Panavia Tornado F2\/F3<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1985&ndash;2011<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\"><span class=\"im ph37\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R1<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1974&ndash;2011<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\"><span class=\"im ph39\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>British Aerospace Harrier GR5\/GR7\/GR9<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1989&ndash;2010<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\"><span class=\"im ph40\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR1\/MR2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1969&ndash;2010<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-siddeley-nimrod\/\"><span class=\"im ph41\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1996&ndash;2010<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sepecat-jaguar\/\"><span class=\"im ph42\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>SEPECAT Jaguar GR1\/GR3<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1973&ndash;2007<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-canberra\/\"><span class=\"im ph43\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>English Electric Canberra<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1951&ndash;2006<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\"><span class=\"im ph45\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR1\/GR3<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1969&ndash;1994<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/blackburn-buccaneer\/\"><span class=\"im ph46\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Blackburn Buccaneer S2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1969&ndash;1994<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hunter\/\"><span class=\"im ph47\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Hawker Hunter<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1954&ndash;1994<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/bac-jet-provost\/\"><span class=\"im ph48\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>BAC Jet Provost<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1955&ndash;1993<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-victor\/\"><span class=\"im ph49\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Handley Page Victor B1\/B2\/K2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1957&ndash;1993<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-4-phantom-ii\/\"><span class=\"im ph50\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG1\/FGR2<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/b><em>1969&ndash;1992<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-shackleton\/\"><span class=\"im ph51\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Avro Shackleton MR1\/MR2\/MR3\/AEW2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1951&ndash;1991<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-lightning\/\"><span class=\"im ph52\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>English Electric Lightning<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1959&ndash;1988<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-vulcan\/\"><span class=\"im ph53\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Avro Vulcan B1\/B2<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1956&ndash;1984<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section style=\"padding:48px 0 64px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/div>\n<h2>Every fact, checked<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"srclist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/uk-armed-forces-equipment-and-formations-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Defence: UK armed forces equipment and formations 2026<\/a><span>accredited official statistics published 20 August 2026; aircraft holdings and in-service figures at 1 April 2026 and formation counts. The primary source for almost every fleet number on this page<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/6a7afefb423b0bdba0290eb1\/UK_armed_forces_equipment_and_formations_2026.xlsx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK armed forces equipment and formations 2026 &mdash; data tables<\/a><span>worksheets 7, 8 and 9: fixed-wing and uncrewed aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, and RAF and Royal Auxiliary Air Force formations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/uk-armed-forces-equipment-and-formations-2026\/background-quality-report-uk-armed-forces-equipment-and-formations-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Background Quality Report: UK armed forces equipment and formations 2026<\/a><span>definitions of &quot;in service&quot;, the effective forward fleet and availability contracts, which is why several fleets have no in-service figure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-2026\/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-1-july-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Defence: Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics, 1 July 2026<\/a><span>RAF regular strength, trained strength and reserves at 1 July 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/6ab2745d997a4b2950cced1a\/Accessible_Excel_tables_to_the_UK_armed_forces_quarterly_service_personnel_statis.xlsx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics 1 July 2026 &mdash; accessible Excel tables<\/a><span>tables 2c and 3a: RAF strength and commitment, and Full Time Trained Strength against workforce requirement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-index\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics index<\/a><span>used to confirm that 1 July 2026 is the latest edition<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/senior-commanders\/chief-of-the-air-staff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Chief of the Air Staff<\/a><span>the current Chief of the Air Staff and his career<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/air-marshal-harv-smyth-appointed-new-chief-of-the-air-staff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Air Marshal Harv Smyth appointed new Chief of the Air Staff<\/a><span>announcement of 16 July 2025 and the succession from Sir Rich Knighton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/ministers\/secretary-of-state-for-defence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOV.UK: Secretary of State for Defence<\/a><span>the current Secretary of State and the date of appointment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Aircraft<\/a><span>the service&rsquo;s own list of current, training and retired aircraft types<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Squadrons<\/a><span>the authoritative list of squadron titles, which is how the Roman and Arabic numbering on this page was set, and of stations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: News<\/a><span>used to date the 2026 changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/per-ardua-ad-astra-air-command-redesignated-to-air-space-command\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Per Ardua ad Astra &mdash; Air Command redesignated to Air and Space Command<\/a><span>the redesignation of 1 September 2026 and the RAF&rsquo;s space lineage back to Fylingdales in 1963<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/raf-launches-first-ever-space-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: RAF launches first ever Space Squadron<\/a><span>No. III Space Effects Squadron, 23 September 2026, and the 880 million pound space investment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/raf-f-35a-marks-a-significant-step-in-delivering-a-more-lethal-integrated-force-and-joining-nato-nuclear-mission\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: RAF F-35A marks a significant step in delivering a more lethal Integrated Force and joining NATO Nuclear Mission<\/a><span>25 June 2025: twelve F-35A, No. 207 Squadron at RAF Marham, the 27-aircraft second phase and the 138-aircraft headmark<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/current-aircraft\/lightning-f35b\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Lightning F-35B<\/a><span>the Lightning Force, its squadrons and the initial operating capability dates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/current-aircraft\/poseidon-mra11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Poseidon MRA1<\/a><span>nine aircraft, the squadrons at RAF Lossiemouth, and the link back to the Nimrod MRA4 cancellation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/wedgetail-aew-mk1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Wedgetail AEW Mk1<\/a><span>No. VIII Squadron and No. 42 (TB) Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth, and the aircraft&rsquo;s role<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/shadow-r1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Shadow R1<\/a><span>the urgent operational requirement origin, the squadrons and the Shadow R2 upgrade<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/current-aircraft\/voyager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Voyager<\/a><span>the core and surge fleets, the AirTanker arrangement and the KC2 and KC3 marks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/current-aircraft\/atlas-c1-a400m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Atlas C1 (A400M)<\/a><span>22 aircraft, the four squadrons at RAF Brize Norton and the succession from the Hercules<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/envoy-iv-cc1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Envoy IV CC1<\/a><span>two Falcon 900LX with No. XXXII (The Royal) Squadron from 1 June 2022, replacing four BAe 146<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/hawk-t1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Hawk T1<\/a><span>the Red Arrows, the No. 100 Squadron withdrawal on 31 March 2022 and the expectation of service to the end of the 2029 display season<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircraft\/reaper-mq9a\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Reaper (MQ-9A)<\/a><span>No. 39 Squadron and No. XIII Squadron, 2007 to 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/raf-reaper-makes-final-flight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: RAF Reaper makes final flight<\/a><span>3 October 2025, eighteen years and more than 173,000 flying hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/84-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: 84 Squadron<\/a><span>the firefighting and support role at RAF Akrotiri<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/1-4-billion-modernised-chinook-fleet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: 1.4 billion pound modernised Chinook fleet<\/a><span>the 2021 announcement of 14 H-47(ER) aircraft with deliveries then promised from 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/chief-of-the-air-staff-statement-on-raf-recruiting-inquiry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Chief of the Air Staff statement on the RAF Recruiting Inquiry<\/a><span>29 June 2023: 161 candidates accelerated, 31 men who missed a joining bonus, the apology and the twelve recommendations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/what-we-do\/our-history\/battle-of-britain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: The Battle of Britain<\/a><span>the RAF&rsquo;s own figures: 2,945 aircrew, 544 killed, 312 ground personnel, and the Dowding System timings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bbm.org.uk\/the-airmen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Battle of Britain London Monument: The Airmen<\/a><span>the clasp roll: 2,937 airmen and the breakdown by nationality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/history\/the-battle-of-britain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial War Museums: The Battle of Britain<\/a><span>the Observer Corps, anti-aircraft and barrage balloon figures and the phases of the battle<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/history\/life-and-death-in-bomber-command\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial War Museums: Life and death in Bomber Command<\/a><span>the survival odds: 51 per cent killed on operations, 12 per cent in accidents, 13 per cent prisoners, 24 per cent unharmed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/rafs-vital-role-in-the-berlin-airlift\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: The RAF&rsquo;s vital role in the Berlin Airlift<\/a><span>around 400 RAF missions a day, nearly 400,000 tons delivered and more than 130,000 people evacuated<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/40th-anniversary-of-op-black-buck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: 40th anniversary of Op Black Buck<\/a><span>seven missions planned and five completed, almost 6,600 nautical miles, up to eleven Victor tankers, and the decorations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/what-we-do\/centre-for-air-and-space-power-studies\/aspr\/apr-vol4-iss2-2-pdf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAF Centre for Air and Space Power Studies, Air Power Review: Reassessing the History of Air Control<\/a><span>the RAF&rsquo;s own critical assessment of air control, the Cairo Conference, the assumption of command in Iraq on 1 October 1922, and the 1928 accuracy figures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org.uk\/research\/research-enquiries\/history-of-aviation-timeline\/british-military-aviation\/1918-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAF Museum: British military aviation timeline, 1918<\/a><span>the Air Council, Trenchard&rsquo;s appointment on 18 January 1918, and the No. 44 Squadron Gotha interception of 28 January<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org.uk\/research\/research-enquiries\/history-of-aviation-timeline\/british-military-aviation\/1956-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAF Museum: British military aviation timeline, 1956<\/a><span>the year of Suez and of the atomic trials air task force; consulted for dating<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/media\/politics\/documents\/yorkindproject\/2024%20Report3%20Ritchie%20&amp;%20Walker%20Denuclearising%20the%20RAF.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of York, Nuclear Disarmament and Irreversibility project: Denuclearising the RAF (Ritchie and Walker, 2024)<\/a><span>the V-force taking the deterrent in 1955 and 1956, the handover to Polaris in 1969, the WE.177 variants and the final withdrawal on 22 April 1998<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/what-we-do\/our-history\/air-historical-branch\/post-coldwar-studies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Air Historical Branch: post-Cold War studies<\/a><span>the index of published Air Historical Branch narratives, including the Operation Herrick IV study on Afghanistan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/what-we-do\/our-history\/air-historical-branch\/post-coldwar-studies\/raf-first-gulf-war-air-power-lessons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air Historical Branch: The RAF and the First Gulf War &mdash; Air Power Lessons<\/a><span>157 aircraft deployed including 49 Tornado GR1s, 18 Tornado F3s and 12 Jaguars, 6,108 sorties in Desert Storm, and the opening airfield losses<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/what-we-do\/our-history\/air-historical-branch\/post-coldwar-studies\/uk-air-power-in-op-unified-protector\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air Historical Branch: UK Air Power in Operation Unified Protector, Libya, 2011<\/a><span>about 3,000 RAF sorties of 26,320, 2,100 strike sorties of 9,658, 640 targets, and the type-by-type sortie and weapon figures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/what-we-do\/our-history\/air-historical-branch\/post-coldwar-studies\/raf-in-op-telic2003-offensive-air-power\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air Historical Branch: The RAF in Operation Telic, 2003 &mdash; Offensive Air Power<\/a><span>more than 120 fixed-wing aircraft, wing-by-wing sortie figures, and the loss of a No. IX (Bomber) Squadron Tornado to a Patriot battery on 22 March 2003<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/what-we-do\/our-history\/air-historical-branch\/post-coldwar-studies\/raf-over-iraq-and-kosovo-1997-2000\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air Historical Branch: The RAF over Iraq and Kosovo, 1997&ndash;2000<\/a><span>Operation Bolton, the no-fly zone sortie and tanker figures, and Desert Fox<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/what-we-do\/our-history\/operation-shader\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Operation Shader<\/a><span>the RAF&rsquo;s own summary of the campaign against Daesh from 2014<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/islamic-state\/uks-airstrikes-against-isis-cease-following-conclusion-mission-iraq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forces News: Operation Shader &mdash; UK mission to defeat IS in Iraq and Syria to come to an end<\/a><span>28 September 2024: about 1,400 targets struck in more than 10,000 RAF sorties, and the coalition wind-down timetable<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theroyalairforcechronicle.co.uk\/article\/panavia-tornado-gr1-in-raf-gulf-war-operations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Air Force Chronicle: Panavia Tornado GR1 in RAF Gulf War Operations, 1991<\/a><span>six Tornado GR1s lost in the early low-level phase, and roughly 1,500 Tornado operational sorties<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-strategic-defence-review-2025-making-britain-safer-secure-at-home-strong-abroad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOV.UK: The Strategic Defence Review 2025 &mdash; Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad<\/a><span>published 2 June 2025; the &quot;NATO first&quot; framing and the 2.5 per cent by 2027 and 3 per cent commitments<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/research-briefings\/cbp-8175\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Commons Library: UK defence spending (CBP-8175)<\/a><span>updated 2 September 2026: 62.0 billion pounds in 2025&ndash;26 rising to 79.1 billion by 2029&ndash;30, and the NATO percentage-of-GDP figures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/research-briefings\/cbp-10935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Commons Library: Defence Investment Plan &mdash; key decisions (CBP-10935)<\/a><span>the plan of 30 June 2026: more than 8 billion pounds for GCAP, over 1.1 billion for Typhoon, 300 million for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, more than 5 billion for drones and autonomy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/research-briefings\/cbp-10143\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Commons Library: What is the Global Combat Air Programme? (CBP-10143)<\/a><span>updated 8 July 2026: the December 2023 treaty, UK ratification in October 2024, 2 billion pounds committed since 2021, in service 2035 and a demonstrator flight in 2027<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/research-briefings\/cdp-2025-0210\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Commons Library: Typhoon fighter sovereign capability (CDP-2025-0210)<\/a><span>129 Typhoons with 107 in service at 1 April 2025, the Tranche 1 drawdown from spring 2025, the 2040 out-of-service date, and the minister&rsquo;s statement of 29 October 2025 on the Turkish order filling the Warton gap<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk\/documents\/CDP-2025-0161\/CDP-2025-0161.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Commons Library debate pack: RAF E-7 Wedgetail programme (CDP-2025-0161)<\/a><span>five ordered in 2019, cut to three in March 2021, the Defence Committee&rsquo;s &quot;absolute folly&quot; and 40-per-cent-for-12-per-cent criticism, and the E-3D Sentry gap from 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/committee\/24\/defence-committee\/news\/204584\/defence-cuts-to-create-air-capability-gap-into-2030s-committee-report-finds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Commons Defence Committee: Aviation Procurement &mdash; Winging it?<\/a><span>10 September 2023: the Wedgetail cut called the most perverse decision in the command paper, the Hercules retirement said to have severely reduced air mobility, and pilot training delays called completely unacceptable<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/raf\/more-300-personnel-held-raf-flying-training-pipeline-data-shows\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forces News: RAF turns to US to help as more than 300 held up in its training programme<\/a><span>the written answer of 10 October 2022: about 30 held pre-flying training and about 280 between Military Flying Training System courses<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/dozens-of-raf-fast-jet-trainees-stuck-in-pipeline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Defence Journal: Dozens of RAF fast jet trainees stuck in pipeline<\/a><span>9 June 2026, reporting written answers: 119 fast-jet trainees at 1 June 2026, 36 on holdover and 12 awaiting an operational conversion unit<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/mod-sets-out-retirement-and-fleet-numbers-for-typhoon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Defence Journal: MoD sets out retirement and fleet numbers for Typhoon<\/a><span>written answers of 1 September 2025: Tranche 1 out of service in 2027 and Tranches 2 and 3 in 2040; four Tranche 1, 67 Tranche 2 and 40 Tranche 3 aircraft; 26 of 30 Tranche 1 machines scrapped by 1 July 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/raf-wedgetail-update-testing-under-way-at-lossiemouth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Defence Journal: RAF Wedgetail update &mdash; testing under way at Lossiemouth<\/a><span>21 June 2026, reporting a written answer: the first aircraft arrived at RAF Lossiemouth at the end of May 2026, the second was about to begin testing, the third was in modification at Birmingham, and the sustainment contract was signed in March 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/new-jets-confirmed-for-red-arrows-in-hawk-replacement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Defence Journal: New jets confirmed for Red Arrows in Hawk replacement<\/a><span>30 June 2026: 360 million pounds to recapitalise jet training, no aircraft named, and the T-7A, M-346 and T-50 in contention<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/euro-sd.com\/2025\/06\/major-news\/45172\/protector-enters-raf-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Security and Defence: Protector RG1 UAV has officially entered RAF service<\/a><span>16 June 2025, No. 31 Squadron at RAF Waddington, 16 ordered, Paveway IV and Brimstone 3, and the succession from the Reaper<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janes.com\/osint-insights\/defence-news\/air\/raf-reconstitutes-31-squadron-as-new-protector-unit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janes: RAF reconstitutes 31 Squadron as new Protector unit<\/a><span>the reformation of No. 31 Squadron at RAF Waddington and No. XIII Squadron as the second front-line Protector unit<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janes.com\/defence-intelligence-insights\/defence-news\/defence\/uk-dip-2026-chinook-force-to-face-temporary-but-significant-reduction-ahead-of-planned-new-buy-for-2030s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janes: UK DIP 2026 &mdash; Chinook Force to face temporary but significant reduction ahead of planned new buy for 2030s<\/a><span>the variant split of about 8 HC5, 14 HC6 and 29 HC6A, the retirement of all HC6As by 2030, and the March 2024 contract for 14 H-47(ER) for delivery 2028 to 2032<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/helicopters\/2025\/03\/raf-waves-last-puma-transport-helicopters-into-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FlightGlobal: RAF waves last Puma transport helicopters into retirement<\/a><span>farewell flights on 26 March 2025 after almost 54 years, with No. 33 Squadron the last operator<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/services\/raf\/jupiter-hc2-rafs-replacement-puma-enters-service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forces News: Jupiter HC2 &mdash; the RAF&rsquo;s small and agile replacement for the Puma enters service<\/a><span>six H145 D3, in service 18 December 2025 at RAF Benson, deploying to Brunei and Cyprus, replacing the Bell 212, Bell 412 and part of the Puma task<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/services\/raf\/c-130j-hercules-makes-final-raf-flight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forces News: End of an era &mdash; C-130J Hercules makes final RAF flights<\/a><span>28 June 2023, after 56 years, with No. 47 Squadron the last operator<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aidu.mod.uk\/aip\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom Military Aeronautical Information Publication, AD 2 aerodrome textual data<\/a><span>No. 1 Aeronautical Information Documents Unit; aerodrome reference point coordinates, elevation, runway designators, lengths and surfaces for every military aerodrome here<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nats-uk.ead-it.com\/cms-nats\/opencms\/en\/Publications\/AIP\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom Aeronautical Information Publication, AD 2 (NATS)<\/a><span>civil AIP, AIRAC 3 September 2026; used for Aldergrove, Cornwall Airport Newquay, Leeds East, Biggin Hill and Duxford<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: our stations<\/a><span>the service&rsquo;s own index of stations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/no-1-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: No 1 Group<\/a><span>combat air, air mobility, ISTAR and the display teams<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/no-2-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: No 2 Group<\/a><span>air bases and global enablement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/no-11-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: No 11 Group<\/a><span>air command and control, UK air defence, No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/no-22-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: No 22 Group<\/a><span>training; names the stations under it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-lossiemouth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Lossiemouth<\/a><span>station page: based squadrons and role<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-coningsby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Coningsby<\/a><span>station page: based squadrons, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and the Typhoon Display Team<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-marham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Marham<\/a><span>station page: the Lightning Force, including 809 Naval Air Squadron<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-brize-norton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Brize Norton<\/a><span>station page: air mobility squadrons and reserve squadrons<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-waddington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Waddington<\/a><span>station page: ISTAR squadrons and station aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-odiham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Odiham<\/a><span>station page: the UK Chinook Force<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-benson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Benson<\/a><span>station page: helicopter squadrons and lodger units<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-valley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Valley<\/a><span>station page: No. 4 Flying Training School and the Mountain Rescue Service<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-shawbury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Shawbury<\/a><span>station page: tri-service helicopter training<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-cranwell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Cranwell<\/a><span>station page: the RAF College and No. 3 Flying Training School<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-wittering\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Wittering<\/a><span>station page: Support Force headquarters, flying training and station history<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-northolt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Northolt<\/a><span>station page: command support air transport<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-leeming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Leeming<\/a><span>station page: expeditionary air operations units<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-akrotiri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Akrotiri<\/a><span>station page: the Cyprus Operations Support Unit and No. 84 Squadron<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/mount-pleasant-complex\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Pleasant Complex<\/a><span>station page: Nos. 1435, 1312 and 1310 Flights, and the 1985 opening<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-gibraltar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Gibraltar<\/a><span>station page: staging post role and the runway crossed by a public road<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/ascension-island-base\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ascension Island Base<\/a><span>station page: role, chain of command and current commanders<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-honington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Honington<\/a><span>station page: RAF Regiment and RAF Police headquarters, and station history<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-cosford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Cosford<\/a><span>station page: the Defence College of Technical Training<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-woodvale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Woodvale<\/a><span>station page: units and a dated station history<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-syerston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Syerston<\/a><span>station page: No. 2 Flying Training School and its satellite gliding airfields<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-boulmer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Boulmer<\/a><span>station page: the control and reporting centre and a dated history<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-wyton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Wyton<\/a><span>station page: states plainly that Wyton is no longer an operational airfield<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-high-wycombe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force High Wycombe<\/a><span>station page: Headquarters Air Command, the Groups and UK Space Command<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-st-mawgan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force St Mawgan<\/a><span>station page: the 2008 sale of the runway and the SERE training role<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-digby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Digby<\/a><span>station page: signals units and the station&rsquo;s fighter and RCAF history<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-fylingdales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Fylingdales<\/a><span>station page: ballistic missile early warning, 1963 and 1992<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-halton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Halton<\/a><span>station page: recruit training and the apprentice history<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-henlow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Henlow<\/a><span>station page: lodger units and station history<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-spadeadam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Spadeadam<\/a><span>station page: the electronic warfare tactics range and the Blue Streak history<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/leuchars-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leuchars Station<\/a><span>station page: army ownership, the RAF aerodrome unit and the 2014 and 2015 dates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/viii-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VIII Squadron<\/a><span>Wedgetail AEW Mk1 at Lossiemouth, moved from Waddington in 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/42-tb-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">42 (TB) Squadron<\/a><span>ISTAR operational conversion unit, Poseidon and Wedgetail<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/10-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 Squadron<\/a><span>Voyager at Brize Norton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/101-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">101 Squadron<\/a><span>Voyager at Brize Norton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/99-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">99 Squadron<\/a><span>Globemaster C-17 at Brize Norton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/xxiv-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XXIV Squadron<\/a><span>Globemaster and Atlas at Brize Norton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/30-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 Squadron<\/a><span>Atlas C1 at Brize Norton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/47-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">47 Squadron<\/a><span>Brize Norton; the page names no current type<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/lxx-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LXX Squadron<\/a><span>Atlas C1 at Brize Norton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/206-test-and-evaluation-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">206 Test and Evaluation Squadron<\/a><span>Atlas C1 at Brize Norton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/xiii-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XIII Squadron<\/a><span>Protector RG Mk 1 at Waddington<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/31-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">31 Squadron<\/a><span>Protector RG Mk 1 at Waddington<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/14-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14 Squadron<\/a><span>Shadow R1 at Waddington<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/51-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">51 Squadron<\/a><span>RC-135W Rivet Joint at Waddington<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/54-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">54 Squadron<\/a><span>ISTAR operational conversion unit at Waddington<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/56-test-and-evaluation-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">56 Test and Evaluation Squadron<\/a><span>Waddington; no aircraft listed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/92-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">92 Squadron<\/a><span>Waddington; tactics and training, no aircraft listed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/28-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">28(AC) Squadron<\/a><span>Chinook, the support helicopter operational conversion unit at Benson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/xxii-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XXII Squadron<\/a><span>operational evaluation unit of Joint Helicopter Command at Benson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/iv-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IV Squadron<\/a><span>Hawk T2 at Valley<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/xxv-f-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XXV (F) Squadron<\/a><span>Hawk T2 at Valley<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/72-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">72 Squadron<\/a><span>Texan T1 at Valley<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/202-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">202 Squadron<\/a><span>Juno HT1 and Jupiter HT1 at Valley<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/60-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">60 Squadron<\/a><span>Juno and Jupiter at Shawbury, part of No. 1 Flying Training School<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/16-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">16 Squadron<\/a><span>RAF Wittering; the squadron page gives Tutor T1 where the station page gives Prefect<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/115-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">115 Squadron<\/a><span>Tutor T1 at Wittering<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/xxxii-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XXXII Squadron<\/a><span>Envoy IV CC1 at Northolt<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/100-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">100 Squadron<\/a><span>RAF Leeming; threat replication and close air support training<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/78-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">78 Squadron<\/a><span>Swanwick; area air traffic management, no aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/squadrons\/612-r-squadron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">612 Squadron RAuxAF<\/a><span>Leuchars Station; aeromedical evacuation, no aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/display-teams\/red-arrows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force Red Arrows<\/a><span>Hawk T1, based at RAF Waddington<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/display-teams\/red-arrows\/news\/raf-red-arrows-move-to-new-lincolnshire-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAF Red Arrows move to new Lincolnshire home<\/a><span>the October 2022 move from Scampton to Waddington<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/pumas-final-flypast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Puma&rsquo;s final flypast<\/a><span>the Puma HC2 farewell flight on 26 March 2025 after 54 years<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/lodgement-ceremony-for-33-230-squadron-standards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lodgement ceremony for 33 and 230 Squadron standards<\/a><span>both squadrons&rsquo; standards lodged at RAF Cranwell on 15 October 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/stations\/raf-benson\/news\/jupiter-hc2-enters-service-with-joint-aviation-command\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jupiter HC2 enters service with Joint Aviation Command<\/a><span>first of six H145 D3 in service at RAF Benson on 17 December 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/new-helicopters-restore-year-round-response-capability-in-cyprus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New helicopters restore year-round response capability in Cyprus<\/a><span>three Jupiter HC Mk2 with No. 84 Squadron, first flight from Akrotiri on 9 July 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/news\/articles\/raf-akrotiri-helicopter-capability-transfers-from-griffin-to-puma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAF Akrotiri helicopter capability transfers from Griffin to Puma<\/a><span>Griffin HAR2 final sortie 31 March 2023; Puma took over from 1 April 2023<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/5f6344b18fa8f5106b23aa86\/Better_Defence_Estate_Dec16_Amends_Web.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Better Defence Estate, Ministry of Defence, November 2016<\/a><span>the disposal table, including RAF Henlow technical site and airfield by 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/defence-minister-outlines-progress-on-building-a-better-defence-estate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Defence Minister outlines progress on building a Better Defence Estate, GOV.UK<\/a><span>the RAF to stop using Linton-on-Ouse by 2020 and Scampton by 2022<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/new-f-35as-not-bought-for-nuclear-role-says-beck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Defence Journal: New F-35As not bought for nuclear role, says Beck<\/a><span>Air Vice-Marshal Jim Beck, 15 July 2026, on the purpose of the twelve F-35As<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aidu.mod.uk\/aip\/pdf\/ad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Military AIP, AD 2.2 aerodrome geographical and administrative data (EGXX-Name-Textual.pdf per aerodrome)<\/a><span>Audit only, no changes: ARP checked for 30 military aerodromes (Lossiemouth, Coningsby, Marham, Brize Norton, Waddington, Odiham, Benson, Valley, Shawbury, Cranwell, Wittering, Northolt, Leeming, Akrotiri, Mount Pleasant, Gibraltar, Woodvale, Syerston, Cosford, Honington, Halton, Boscombe Down, Leuchars, Barkston Heath, Mona, Topcliffe, Little Rissington, Kenley, Kirknewton, Wattisham); every file value matches the published ARP to 0.00001 deg, sign and hemisphere correct.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aurora.nats.co.uk\/htmlAIP\/Publications\/2026-09-03-AIRAC\/html\/eAIP\/EG-AD-2.EGAA-en-GB.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK AIP (NATS Aurora eAIP), AD 2.2, AIRAC 2026-09-03<\/a><span>Audit only, no changes: EGAA Aldergrove, EGHQ Newquay (St Mawgan), EGCM Leeds East (Church Fenton), EGKB Biggin Hill, EGSU Duxford ARPs match the file exactly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/listing\/the-list\/list-entry\/1391594\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hangars 1-4 (C-type hangars), Scampton, National Heritage List for England entry 1391594<\/a><span>NGR SK 96657 79081 (Hangar 1, first of four NGRs given); point is on the airfield hangar line, not an ARP. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/listing\/the-list\/list-entry\/1391623\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buildings 186, 187, 188 and 189 (Aircraft Hangars), RAF Henlow, NHLE entry 1391623<\/a><span>NGR TL 16614 36260; point is the listed hangar group on the station. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/listing\/the-list\/list-entry\/1021425\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World War II fighter pen, Cold War blast walls and associated remains at the airfield formerly known as RAF Coltishall, Scottow, NHLE entry 1021425 (scheduled monument)<\/a><span>NGR TG 26786 23378 (first of two NGRs); point is on the former airfield. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/listing\/the-list\/list-entry\/1413245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Rocket, Kingwater, NHLE entry 1413245<\/a><span>NGR NY 61528 70358; the listed rocket stands at the station&#8217;s administrative and missile assembly area (NHLE 1413095 places the adjacent BOC plant 120 m north of it). Station camp, not the range. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk\/Monument\/MLI60621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer (Lincolnshire County Council HER), monument record MLI60621, RAF Digby<\/a><span>Centred TF 0445 5699 (1923 m by 1423 m), estimated from sources: centre of the station\/airfield polygon. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/keystothepast.info\/search-records\/results-of-search\/results-of-search-2\/site-details\/?PRN=N20030\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keys to the Past (Northumberland HER), site N20030, Boulmer Airfield (Longhoughton)<\/a><span>NGR NU 259 133 (100 m precision); the airfield site that is today RAF Boulmer. The remote radar head at Brizlee Wood is elsewhere. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/results\/reports\/8763\/RAFFylingdalesLocktonNorthYorkshire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Historic England Research Report 128\/1998, RAF Fylingdales, Lockton, North Yorkshire (Roger Thomas)<\/a><span>Site NGR SE 8641 9755 (Snod Hill, Lockton High Moor), 10 m precision. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk\/Monument\/MBC24925\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buckinghamshire&#8217;s Heritage Portal (Buckinghamshire Council HER), monument record 0950900000 \/ MBC24925, Strike Command (Bomber\/Strike Command, Walters Ash)<\/a><span>Centred SU 83031 98289 (1101 m by 1383 m): centre of the RAF High Wycombe site. The underground operations block (MBC24926) is at SU 82903 98594. Converted from OSGB36 National Grid to WGS84 with the Ordnance Survey 7-parameter Helmert transformation (accuracy about 5 m); converter checked against the OS worked example (Caister water tower).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: Groups<\/a><span>The four groups under Air and Space Command<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/no-1-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: No 1 Group<\/a><span>Combat Air, Air Mobility and ISTAR forces and the Air and Space Warfare Centre<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/no-2-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: No 2 Group<\/a><span>Support force, RAF Regiment and RAuxAF squadrons<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/no-11-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: No 11 Group<\/a><span>Command and control of air operations; re-formed 1 November 2018<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/our-organisation\/groups\/no-22-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force: No 22 Group<\/a><span>Training; headquarters at RAF Cranwell<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/services\/raf\/two-raf-pilots-being-treated-injuries-after-hawk-t2-crashed-training-flight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forces News: RAF Hawk T1 and T2s grounded for investigation following crash on training flight in North Wales<\/a><span>24 September 2026; RAF statement that Hawk T1 and T2 flying was paused<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"verified\">Figures verified 2026-09-24. Order of Battle pages are regenerated from a single dataset; if a number here disagrees with a Book of Beasts page, this page is the more recent of the two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verified\">Photographs: Photo: Cpl. Andy Benson \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4. Colin Cooke Photo \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Lightning F-35B. Julian Herzog \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Poseidon MRA1. Julian Herzog \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Wedgetail AEW1. Ministry of Defence \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Airseeker RC-135W Rivet Joint. Alan Wilson from Peterborough, Cambs, UK \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Shadow R1. Jerry Gunner \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Atlas C1. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Globemaster C-17A. Airman 1st Class Tiffany Deuel \/ Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) &middot; Royal Air Force Voyager KC2\/KC3. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Envoy IV CC1. Paul Crouch, RAF Brize Norton Photographic Section \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Chinook HC6A. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Hawk T2. Ian Gratton from Sutton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire, England \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Hawk T1. Vitaly V. Kuzmin \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Texan T1. Jim van de Burgt from Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC0) &middot; Royal Air Force Prefect T1. Colin Cooke Photo \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Phenom T1. Jim van de Burgt from Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC0) &middot; Royal Air Force Tutor T1. Adrian Pingstone \/ Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) &middot; Royal Air Force Juno HT1. Ian Forshaw \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Jupiter HT1. Ian Forshaw \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Reaper. Sgt Corinne Buxton RAF \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Puma HC1\/HC2. Air Specialist Nathan Evans RAF \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Hercules C4. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Griffin HT1\/HAR2. MoD \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force 146 CC2\/C3. Juergen Lehle \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Sentry AEW1. SAC Andy Stevens \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Sentinel R1. Cpl Tim Laurence RAF \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force VC10 C1K\/K3\/K4. Christopher Kern \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) &middot; Royal Air Force TriStar K1\/KC1\/C2. Laurent ERRERA from L&#8217;Union, France \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Tucano T1. J.Hannan-Briggs \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Tornado GR1\/GR4. Corporal Mike Jones \/ Wikimedia Commons (Open Government Licence) &middot; Royal Air Force Tornado F2\/F3. Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in June 2008 and placed in the public domai \/ Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) &middot; Royal Air Force Harrier GR1\/GR3. Steve Lynes from Sandhurst, United Kingdom \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Harrier GR5\/GR7\/GR9. Adrian Pingstone \/ Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) &middot; Royal Air Force Jaguar GR1\/GR3. The joy of all things \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Phantom FG1\/FGR2. kitmasterbloke \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Buccaneer S2. Rept0n1x \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Lightning. Wiltshireboy \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC0) &middot; Royal Air Force Hunter. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Javelin. Richard Vandervord \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Meteor. Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Vampire. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Venom. Steve Daniels \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Sabre F4. Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Gnat T1. Peter Evans \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Jet Provost. [[User:Ad Meskens|Ad Meskens You are free to use this picture for any purpose as \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Vulcan B1\/B2. Anidaat \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Victor B1\/B2\/K2. Cthornborough \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Valiant. Umeyou \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) &middot; Royal Air Force TSR-2. Steve Lynes from Sandshurst, United Kingdom \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Shackleton MR1\/MR2\/MR3\/AEW2. RAF \/ Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) &middot; Royal Air Force Nimrod. Les Chatfield from Brighton, England \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) &middot; Royal Air Force Nimrod R1. 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