A single Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will fly over a Bedfordshire RAF station on Thursday as the ensign is lowered for the last time. Underneath, at the unassuming base in ...

Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said he cannot guarantee that a Staffordshire RAF station will stay open, despite praising its good work. A 5,000-signature petition to save the RAF station from closure ...

I was in the RAF from 1939, when I was l9 years old, until the War was over in 1946. I worked on a Fixing Station (this was used before there was Radar) - I was at RAF Colerne, Sometimes I worked ...

The station then closed as an operating base and was used as a relief landing ground for RAF Scampton before being sold off for development in the 1990s. In the 1980s, 54 homes were built on the ...

An RAF serviceman is returning to a Suffolk air base after 10 years as its new station commander. Group Captain Dave Tait MBE stepped into the post at RAF Honington near Thetford on December 16.

RAF Little Staughton is a former RAF station, a 'class A' airfield that was able to support heavy bombers such as Boeing B-17s, Consolidated B-24s, and Avro Lancasters. The station was handed to ...

The RAF station Boscombe Down in Wiltshire had a fancy new kitchen installed, so Newsreel went for a nosy around. Originally broadcast on 3 February 1950. BBC Archive 1950: RAF Mess Hall.