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    Royal Air Force Scampton or RAF Scampton (formerly IATA: SQZ, ICAO: EGXP) is a former Royal Air Force station located adjacent to the A15 road near to...
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    is RAF Scampton, to which the parish lends its name. The airfield first opened in 1916 as Home Defence Flight Station Brattleby, becoming Scampton the...
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    Hörnum seaplane base on the northern Germany coast. RAF Hemswell was used as a substitute for RAF Scampton in all the ground-based filming of the 1954 war...
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    Air Force aircraft squadron, originally based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and currently based at RAF Marham in Norfolk. It is commonly known as "The...
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    measure, Scampton closed in 1995, so the Red Arrows moved just 20 miles to RAF Cranwell; however, as they still used the air space above Scampton, the emergency...
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    "RAF to Receive Flight Simulator for Upgraded Shadow Mk2 Training". The Defense Post. "DE&S signs £250 million aircraft deal to sustain the RAF's...
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    Squadron, RAF Scampton, Vulcan B.1 No. 35 Squadron, RAF Coningsby, Vulcan B.2 No. 44 Squadron, RAF Waddington, Vulcan B.1A No. 50 Squadron, RAF Waddington...
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  • Centre (1ACC), the RAF's only deployable ground-based early warning and air control radar unit, which was parented by RAF Scampton. The Royal Flying Corps...
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    transferred from No. 2 Group to No. 5 Group and relocated to RAF Scampton. In June they moved to RAF Leuchars for an armaments training camp. From October the...
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    needed] Selected to be part of the specialist No. 617 Squadron RAF, Johnson arrived at RAF Scampton on 27 March 1943. It was at this time that he was due to...
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