Raf Fairford

RAF Fairford

Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. While being an RAF station, Fairford hosts United States Air Force personnel. Since 2019, the base has played host to a Lockheed U-2S Dragon Lady detachment from the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. It is the USAF's only European airfield for heavy bombers and routinely supports Bomber Task Force operations. Its most prominent use in recent decades has been as an airfield for United States Air Force B-52s during the first Gulf War in 1991, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the 2003 Iraq War, and the 2026 Iran war. RAF Fairford was the only TransOceanic Abort Landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle in the UK. Its runway is sufficiently long for a shuttle landing, and it also had NASA-trained fire and medical crews stationed on the airfield.

Data Source : Wikipedia

• Entity:  Military Installation

• Type:  Raf Station (Us Visiting Forces)
• Area:  514.2 Hectares
• Operator:  Us Air Force
• Built:  1943
• Events:  Royal International Air Tattoo (Riat)
• Occupants:  99Th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, 420Th Air Base Squadron, 420Th Munitions Squadron
• Elevation:  87.1 M (285.76 Ft) Amsl
• Wikidata description:  Royal Air Force Station Near Fairford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
• Wikidata label:  Raf Fairford
• Wikidata aliases:  Raf Fairford

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