 Waddington-based Hawker-Siddeley (now BAE Systems) Nimrod R.1 RAF Waddington is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire England. It is presently home to the RAF's Sentry AEW1 and Nimrod R1 aircraft. The station is also home to No. 34 Expeditionary Air Wing Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1840x1164, 166 KB) Summary from http://pao. ...
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004...
The BAE Systems (formerly Hawker-Siddeley) Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft is derived from the De Havilland Comet, the worlds first jet airliner. ...
The airfield will also soon be home to the new Raytheon Sentinel R1 ASTOR ground-surveillance/intelligence aircraft of 5 Sqn. Raytheon Production aircraft first flight The Raytheon Sentinel is under development as the RAFs ASTOR (Airborne STand-Off Radar) aircraft. ...
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RAF Waddington has in the last few years revived its Waddington International Air Show, which usually takes place in the last weekend of June, attracting up to 100,000 visitors and representatives of Air Forces from all round the world. There is an outdoor viewing area east of the A15 road close to the northern end of the long runway which was designed to accommodate V-bombers. Short-term visits from different NATO and Swiss fighter squadrons generate occasional additional noise and interest, as the runway is conveniently placed for offshore practice firing ranges above the North Sea. The term V bomber was used for the Royal Air Force aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the UKs strategic nuclear strike force. ...
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The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ...
No. 34 Expeditionary Air Wing was formed at Waddington on 1st April 2006 encompassing all of the flying units at the station. The station commander is dual-hatted as the commander of the wing.
Waddington is currently home to:
- No 5 (Army Co-operation) Sqn - ASTOR/Sentinel R1
- No. 8 Sqn - Sentry
- No. 23 Sqn - Sentry
- No. 51 Sqn - Nimrod R1
- No. 26 Sqn - Ground Based Air Defence
- No. 2503 Sqn - RAuxAF Force Sustainment
RAF Waddington is also the main site for the Air Warfare Centre. No. ...
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See also
This is a list of Royal Air Force stations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. ...
External links - RAF Waddington
- Air Warfare Centre, RAF Waddington
- RAF History - Waddington
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