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468:(33MU), with no ceremony and few personnel. On the first day of operations, the personnel strength was recorded as four officers, one other rank and 15 civilians. Nine vehicles were also recorded, including two tractors, an ambulance and a Crossley fire engine. The station did not have any aircraft however, until the end of the month when a
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Lyneham, the intention being to retain Lyneham as an RAF station until 2012 when the older C-130K fleet would
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Lyneham's 3,500 military and civilian personnel were left to complete the closure of the station. The final four Hercules departed Lyneham at 10:30 on 1 July 2011, conducting a flypast around Wiltshire before heading for their new Oxfordshire
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The airfield was built in 1939, necessitating the demolition of
Lyneham Court manor house, the buildings of Cranley Farm and the village's tennis courts. The airfield itself was initially a grass landing area although the RAF always planned to lay hard runways. Hangars and other buildings were
707:(57 Sqn), and moved from the old airmen's hutted accommodation into a new building. There was a continuous programme of building from the mid-eighties to update and replace the original station buildings, which were not designed or built with such a long life in view in 1939 and the forties.
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Lyneham's first runways were constructed during 1940 and 1941, the longest being 4,375 ft (1,334 m), the other 3,542 ft (1,080 m). During the following years these were both extended, and in 1943 the 6,000 ft (1,829 m) north–south runway was opened as well.
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Lyneham officially closing as an RAF station on 31 December 2012, after which it was handed over to the MOD's
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on 23 November 1999, to be operated by XXIV Sqn and 30 Sqn. The newer J-model aircraft worked side by side with 29 refurbished C-130K Hercules flown by 47 Sqn. LXX Sqn stood-down on 8 September 2010, but reformed in 2014 at Brize Norton, as the first
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511 Sqn was re-formed again at
Lyneham on 15 December 1959, as the second squadron to operate the Britannia on long-range trooping flights. It moved out of RAF Lyneham for RAF Brize Norton in June 1970, as Lyneham became the airfield for the newer
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aircraft attacked the station on 19 September 1940, dropping an incendiary and two high explosive bombs before strafing part of the airfield. Five civilian workmen were killed.
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677:(LXX Sqn), bringing to seven the station's total of resident aircraft squadrons. However this had reduced to five by 1978 with the disbandment of both 36 and 48 Squadrons.
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John Gladstone. A ceremony, attended by Prime Minister
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station located 6.3 miles (10.1 km) northeast of
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560:. It continued in the transport role with the
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1524:"Mixed emotions as Hercules leave RAF Lyneham"
1227:. Stroud, UK: Tempus Publishing. p. 185.
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705:No. 57 (Reserve) Squadron RAF
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1471:"Royal visit to RAF Lyneham"
1225:The Archaeology of Airfields
753:, expected around 2010. The
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1202:"History – The 40s and 50s"
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1204:. Royal Air Force. 2011
1092:A dictionary of mottoes
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909:No. 159 Squadron RAF
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1887:Airports in England
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1176:"History – Origins"
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