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unit covering three distinct sites in

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RAF Brampton RAF Brampton was a non-flying Royal Air Force installation near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England. Formerly the home of RAF Support Command, it also became the home of several elements of Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), which itself was ...

RAF Wyton Royal Air Force Wyton or more simply RAF Wyton is a Royal Air Force station near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. The airfield is decommissioned and is now home to the Joint Forces Intelligence Group. History Flying station Wyton has b ...

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RAF Henlow RAF Henlow is a Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England, equidistant from Bedford, Luton and Stevenage. It houses the RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine, the Joint Arms Control Implementation Group (JACIG), elements of Defence Equipment ...

, housed a number of flying training, intelligence, security and other RAF support organisations. On 2 April 2012 the unit was disbanded with RAF Brampton being renamed Brampton Camp RAF Wyton.

History

In 2001, the three RAF stations were brought together under the one umbrella with one station commander. RAF Stanbridge was brought into the agreement too, but was not formally noted in the tri-base name. At that time, RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow represented the largest RAF base in terms of real estate and personnel.

Based units

RAF Brampton (now closed)

*Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (Formally closed down mid-2012) *Defence Security Standards Organisation *No 73 (Huntingdon) Squadron Air Training Corps

RAF Wyton

* 57(R) Squadron *

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* London University Air Squadron * 5 Air Experience Flight *

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*No 2331 (St Ives) Squadron Air Training Corps

RAF Henlow

*RAF Centre for Aviation Medicine *Joint Arms Control Implementation Group *Tactical Provost Wing (TPW) *No 1 Specialist Police Wing *No 8 RAF Force Protection Wing HQ *No 2482 (Henlow) Squadron Air Training Corps *No 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron

References

External links

Official RAF site
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