Wikimapia is a multilingual open-content collaborative map, where anyone can create place tags and share their knowledge.

RAF Fairford

United Kingdom / England / Fairford /
 military airbase, Second World War 1939-1945, RAF - Royal Air Force
RAF Fairford (IATA: FFD, ICAO: EGVA) is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, near Fairford. It is a standby airfield, not in everyday use. Its most prominent use in recent years has been as a base for United States Air Force B-52s during the Gulf War in 1991, (as the 806th Bombardment Wing (Provisional)), the Kosovo War in 1999 and the 2003 campaign in Iraq.

RAF Fairford is the only TransOceanic Abort Landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle in the UK. As well as having a sufficiently long runway for a shuttle landing (the runway is 3 km long), it also has NASA trained fire and medical crews stationed on the base. [1]

RAF Fairford is host to the annual air display, the Royal International Air Tattoo. The Air Tattoo is one of the largest airshows in the world, with the 2003 show recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest military airshow ever, with an attendance of 535 aircraft.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fairford
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   51°41'13"N   1°47'19"W

Comments

  • Murru (guest)
    Отсюда 20 марта 2003 года 11 B-52 вылетели бомбить Ирак. Так началось вторжение коалиционных войск.
This article was last modified 7 years ago