Bases

Question 1

RAF college Cranwell

Answer 1

• RAF selection and recruitment
• HQ air cadets
• no3 flying training school - phenom and prefect

Question 2

RAF Brize norton

Answer 2

• largest RAF station
• RAFs strategic and tactical air transport
• voyager, atlas, globe master, Hercules

Question 3

RAF coningsby

Answer 3

• QRA base
• BBMF
• typhoons, Lancaster, Dakota, spitfire

Question 4

RAF lossiemouth

Answer 4

• QRA - typhoons

- the Poseidon Sqn

Question 5

RAF waddington

Answer 5

• hub of UK ISTAR
• sentinel (withdrawn) sentry (due to be withdrawn)
• reaper, shadow, rivet joint
• wedgetail, protector (future)

Question 6

RAF akoriti

Answer 6

Cyprus,

• forward mounting base for overseas operations,
• fast jet training
• typhoon, voyager, sentinel

Question 7

RAF ascension islands

Answer 7

• deter military aggression

- staging post between UK and Falklands as it’s located in the middle

Question 8

RAF mount pleasant

Answer 8

Falklands,

• to establish a fighter and transport presence in the islands
• typhoons, voyager Hercules, Chinook

Question 9

RAF Gibraltar

Answer 9

• NATO support base

- contributes to the maintenance of British sovereignty in Gibraltar

Question 10

RAF Halton

Answer 10

• recruit training

- specialist training

Question 11

RAF marham

Answer 11

• f-35 lightning’s

- engineering support

Question 12

RAF high Wycombe

Answer 12

• hosts hq air command

- liason between RAF and United States visiting forces

Question 13

RAF wyton

Answer 13

Joint force command station
Joint force intelligence
National centre for geospatial intelligence

Question 14

RAF wittering

Answer 14

HQ for RAF A4 force

Major station for flying training