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    Royal Air Force Leconfield or more simply RAF Leconfield is a former Royal Air Force station located in Leconfield (near Beverley), East Riding of Yorkshire...
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    promoted to wing commander. Hemingway later served as station commander of RAF Leconfield, was staff officer at NATO in France, and finally served in the Air...
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  • the landlady of The Bay Horse public house. Leconfield was home to RAF Leconfield until 1977, when the RAF withdrew and the Army School of Mechanical Transport...
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    August 1964 - September 1976 - HQ at RAF Leconfield Whirlwind HAR.10 September 1976 – 1 December 1992 - HQ at RAF Finningley Whirlwind HAR.10 until November...
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    British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Marines. The site was formerly RAF Leconfield which closed in 1977 when the Army School of Mechanical Transport moved...
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    1939. A detachment of Supermarine Spitfires of No. 616 Squadron RAF from RAF Leconfield arrived for air defence in 1940. The airfield was expanded and...
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    Spitfire Mk.Is in October 1939. During that month No. 616 moved to RAF Leconfield and by the end of November conversion to the modern fighter was complete...
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    standardised to the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley. RAF Finningley had gone over to No. 5 Group RAF and RAF Leconfield was "Under care and Maintenance" by No. 4...
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  • September 1976 with flights at RAF Boulmer in Northumberland, RAF Leconfield, RAF Coltishall, RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and RAF Brawdy in Pembrokeshire. The...
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  • Line, proximity to RAF Leconfield and a red phonebox. The village has a fishing venue on the tidal River Hull. The road from Leconfield is one continuous...
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