MoD Boscombe Down
United Kingdom /
England /
Amesbury /
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/ United Kingdom
/ England
/ Amesbury
World / United Kingdom / England
department of defense / ministry of defence, Second World War 1939-1945, military, RAF - Royal Air Force
Formerly the Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment, now in the hands of semi-autonomous military research company Qinetic.
MoD Boscombe Down (ICAO: EGDM) is an aircraft testing site located at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England. It is run and managed by QinetiQ, the company created as part of the breakup of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in 2001 by the UK Ministry of Defence. It is the home of the Empire Test Pilots\' School.
The site was formerly known as RAF Boscombe Down and since 1939 has evaluated aircraft for the British armed forces.
www.raf.mod.uk/organisation/stations.cfm?selectStation=...
MoD Boscombe Down (ICAO: EGDM) is an aircraft testing site located at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England. It is run and managed by QinetiQ, the company created as part of the breakup of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in 2001 by the UK Ministry of Defence. It is the home of the Empire Test Pilots\' School.
The site was formerly known as RAF Boscombe Down and since 1939 has evaluated aircraft for the British armed forces.
www.raf.mod.uk/organisation/stations.cfm?selectStation=...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoD_Boscombe_Down
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 51°9'20"N 1°44'56"W
- Bulford Camp 5 km
- Military Terrain 8.3 km
- Airfield Camp, Netheravon 11 km
- AAC Middle Wallop 12 km
- The Salisbury Plain Training Area 33 km
- Blandford Camp 40 km
- Former RAF Wroughton 40 km
- RAF Lyneham 44 km
- Buckley Barracks 51 km
- Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton 66 km
- DSTL Porton Down 5.3 km
- Salisbury Plain 12 km
- South Harewood Forest 22 km
- Sparsholt College 26 km
- Romsey Parish 26 km
- Farley Mount Country Park 26 km
- Rownhams 31 km
- M3 Junction 14/M27 Junction 4/A33 (Southampton) 33 km
- New Forest National Park 34 km
- Borough of Basingstoke and Deane 39 km
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