Royal Air Force Longtown or more simply RAF Longtown is a former
Royal Air Force station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
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located east of
Longtown,
Cumbria and northeast of
Carlisle
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, Cumbria,
England.
History
The following units were posted here at some point:
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No. 1 (Coastal) Engine Control Demonstration Unit RAF.
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No. 6 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF.
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No. 9 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF Number nine may refer to:
* 9 (number), natural number
* Number Nine, Arkansas, a community in the United States
* Number Nine (novel), a 1951 novel by A.P. Herbert
* ''Number Nine'' (album), by Chris Hülsbeck
* , by Wende (2009)
* Number 9 Aud ...
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No. 41 Squadron RAF between 1 August and 11 August 1942 with
Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. Many variants of the Spitfire were built, from the Mk 1 to the Rolls-Royce Grif ...
Mk VB's.
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No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF
No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed in November 1940 at RAF Aston Down to train fighter pilots.
History
55 OTU RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed i ...
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No. 59 Operational Training Unit RAF
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No. 1332 (Transport) Heavy Conversion Unit RAF.
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No. 1521 (Radio Aids Training) Flight RAF.
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No. 1674 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF.
Current use
The site is currently farmland.
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Royal Air Force stations in Cumbria