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	Conlon
		After the course at RAF Yatesbury I was sent to RAF Leaconsfield, Lincolnshire, but I cried so much that I wasn't qualified to work on their airplanes that after 3 weeks they sent me to N. Ireland to RAF Aldergrove on helicopters "air sea rescue".
		August 1958 the squadron was transferred to RAF Leuchars, Scotland where I stayed until December 1959 when I got a compassionate posting back to RAF Ballykelly, where I could be close to my father, who passed away in Dec 1959.
		My first job on leaving the RAF was a production supervisor for Grundig, who were slave drivers and I decided to quit after 2 years and took a job with Short Bros and Harland as an aircraft electrician who paid better than Grundig even after the extra money I was offered to stay.
	home.cogeco.ca /~mjm7/Conlon.htm (395 words)

	Encyclopedia: RAF Bases
		RAF Barkston Heath has two roles, firstly it is home to the Joint Elementary Flying Training School which operates 18 MKII Firefly two seat trainers and secondly it is a Relief Landing Ground for the flying training activities at RAF Cranwell.
		RAF Honnington is home to the RAF Regiment Depot, this is now no longer a flying station, with the last aircraft leaving in 1993 when the Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit moved to Lossiemouth.
		RAF Lossiemouth was built during 1938 and 1939 and opened on Ma 1, 1939 with No 15 Flying Training School as the major unit.
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	Your Place And Mine - Londonderry - Ballykelly - A Plantation Village
		During World War 2, a low-flying RAF bomber on a practice run clipped one of the telephone lines behind the C. of I. Church, and crashed with the loss of all crew.
		The wartime (Coastal Command) RAF base was just a half mile or so behind the church, and the "Boys in Blue" remained in Ballykelly until the early 1970s.
		Ballykelly was affected by a bloody rebellion by the "native Irish" that broke out briefly against the English and Scottish settlers in the early 1640s.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/yourplaceandmine/londonderry/ballykelly_village.shtml (1244 words)

	RAF Ballykelly: Just the facts...
		RAF Ballykelly was a Royal Air Force (The airforce of Great Britain) airbase near Limavady (additional info and facts about Limavady), Northern Ireland (A division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland).
		RAF Ballykelly opened in 1941 as a base for RAF Coastal Command (additional info and facts about RAF Coastal Command).
		Some Fleet Air Arm (additional info and facts about Fleet Air Arm) units moved onto the base in 1962, who referred to it as HMS Sealion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/raf_ballykelly2.htm (145 words)

	BALLYKELLY’S SHACKLETON ERA 1952-1971 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		It was a bleak time at Ballykelly, as within a few days of the crash a bus carrying civilian workers to the base was involved in a serious accident with several killed, and a Royal Navy Avenger from the neighbouring airfield at Eglinton crashed with the loss of the crew.
		A safe landing was made at Ballykelly when it was discovered that in addition to the radar scanner the cameras and tailwheel doors were missing, and the fins, rudders and bomb doors had been dented.
		The task fell to the Ballykelly squadrons, and as the duration of the commitment was obviously uncertain it was planned that each squadron would in turn nominally take command of the four aircraft/ four crew detachment for a three month period.
	www.memorylane.com.au /Shackleton/balkela.html (14040 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - LACW Molly Frost - Ballykelly Bereavement - A4334799
		I was stationed at RAF Ballykelly in 1943/4 and was demobbed from there in November 1945.
		RAF Ballykelly was a part of Coastal Command and aircraft called Liberators which carried out anti submarine patrols in the North Atlantic were based there.
		The lady who ran the house was called Ma Hassan, she had two sons, one worked in the bank and eventually married a girl from the camp with whom I was friendly, she was called Sally Kent and the other was a bus driver.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A4334799 (596 words)

	Royal Air Force Regiment Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Before Bofors were issued to the RAF Regiment many LAA Sqn's used the 20mm Hispanos mounted on Anti Aircraft mountings, however these were prone to many faillures including self Destructing Ammunition.
		RAF Catterick was the depot and home of the RAF Regiment from 1946 after it moved from Belton Park.
		In 1969 The RAF Regt was given the responsibilty of RAF Aldergrove, Ballykelly and Bishops Court
	www.rafregt.8k.com /royal_air_force_regiment_museum.htm (706 words)

	RAF BALLYKELLY - Find Friends from RAF BALLYKELLY at Forces Reunited
		Roger Gerring was at RAF Ballykelly between 1957 and 1962
		Derrick Hughes was at RAF Ballykelly between 1953 and 1976
		Derek Riley was at RAF Ballykelly between 1953 and 1970
	www.forcesreunited.org.uk /namearchive/units/RAFNames/RAF-Ballykelly.html (932 words)

	Conlon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		My first posting was to RAF Ballykelly, at that time it was the last outpost as no one was ever dressed properly as I recall.
		In January 1962 got my overseas posting to RAF Changi, Singapore, where our oldest daughter Julie was born on the same date in October 1963 as our son.
		My first job on leaving the RAF was as a production supervisor for Grundig who were slave drivers.
	www.hayling-island.com /raf/Conlon.htm (376 words)

	Sergeant C. H. Greenlee(RAF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		He was a relative late-comer to competition shooting, but an introduction to it at RAF Luqa, Malta in 1949 soon proved his natural ability.
		A posting to RAF Ballykelly, Northern Ireland followed and with it annual participation at the RAF Week at Bisley.
		Sergeant Greenlee was presented with his medal by the Honourable George Ward, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air, and among those witnessing the presentation were Marshal of the RAF The Lord Tedder and Marshal of the RAF Sir John Slessor.
	www.chilli.net.au /~kremer/files/greenlee.htm (547 words)

	Encyclopedia article: List of RAF stations
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	Encyclopedia: RAF Ballykelly
		The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces.
		These three Squadrons were part of the ASW force and also covered SAR standby duties togetyher with their counterparts at RAF Kinloss and RAF St Mawgan.
		Rae Garden was at RAF Ballykelly between 1963 and 2001
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/RAF-Ballykelly (869 words)

	The Royal Air Force
		The RAF had this story under wraps for 30 years, I was one of those survivors and was officially warned off on at least 3 separate occasions in making representations to my superiors during the remainder of my RAF career under the Queens Regulations 'Conduct Prejudice' Act.
		Any errors to any official RAF forms at that time were always struck out with one single line in red or green ink and endorsed and countersigned by a Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) or Commissioned Officer in order that the entry was still readable but to be ignored in having any relevance.
		RAF Gan in 1960 was replacing the base at Katunayake as a staging post from the UK to the Far East and although operational was not complete in all its buildings and facilities.
	splashdown2.tripod.com (10898 words)

	Machrihanish -- Black Triangle Research Group - Ayrshire Division
		The re-opneing of Machrihanish would seem to be conected with the withdrawal of RAF and Fleet Air Arm from Northern Ireland - RAF Ballykelly and RNAS Yeovilton.
		On the Chinook crash, the Mull of Kintyre is notorious for mists at certain altitudes.
		This resulted in 1956 in the loss of an RAF Neptune and in 1968 of a Shackleton, both of which were engaged in anti-submarine exercises in the North Channel, as well as of a Royal Navy Wasp.
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	A V R Johnstone
		However, a ground posting came his way when he was appointed a Fighter Controller at RAF Turnhouse and as a result he became involved in the incident of Rudolf Hess' (Hitler's deputy) attempt to negotiate a peace settlement.
		After command of RAF Ballykelly, the Air Sea Warfare Development Unit and Staff duties at No 12 Group, he found himself back in Malaya, this time as Deputy Air Defence Commander.
		Following the formation of the Malaysian Federation he was seconded to the newly formed Royal Malaysian Air Force as the Deputy Air Commander, with the rank of Air Commodore, which was in fact the senior appointment as his superior was the Army commander, who was in overall command of the Malayan Forces.
	www.rafweb.org /Biographies/Johnstone.htm (1928 words)

	RAF Watton Picture
		The RAF Benevolent Fund held their annual conference at Watton in September.
		The Vickers Varsity, so long a workhorse for the many units at RAF Watton was nearing the end of its days.
		Six of 360 Squadron’s T17’s, based firstly at RAF Ballykelly in N. Ireland and then RAF St.Mawgan in Cornwall, provided ECM cover for units attacking the fleet.
	www.rafwatton.info /timeline/1967/pl1967.html (667 words)

	UK 819 naval air squadron - Helicopter Database
		After disbanding in Malta in Jan 1941, it reformed with a torpedo bomber role in Oct 1941 at Lee-on-Solent and for a short period, it was attached to RAF Coastal Command before disbanding in Mar 1945.
		As RAF Ballykelly was being run down prior to hand over to the British Army, 819 Squadron disbanded on 29 Jan 1971.
		With a SAR gap to be closed, the usefulness of a naval aviation presence close to the Clyde bases and the need to provide protection for offshore assets around Scotland, 819 Squadron reformed on 9 Feb 1971 at RNAS Culdrose as the third front line Sea King HAS.1 unit.
	www.helis.com /database/go/uk_819_naval_air_squadron.php (355 words)

	NS(RAF)A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		I was in the RAF between 1956-58 and did square-bashing at Wilmslow from mid July to end of August.
		At that time the Freedon of Bridgnorth was being conferred on to RAF Bridgnorth and he was selected to take part.
		RAF Innsworth 1953/55 Hut 48- RAF Barnwood/Elmbridge Court.
	www.nsrafa.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162 (2427 words)

	201 Squadron RAF St. Mawgan
		I served in the RAF on 201 Squadron MR3 Avro Shackleton aircraft from May 1960 to October 1963 which was then based at St. Mawgan, less than a handful of miles from the resort of Newquay and lying on a very picturesque and rugged North Cornish coastline.
		A detachment of 22 Squadron Westland Whirlwind helicopters from RAF Chivenor were ever present but based on the St. Mawgan village side of the airfield.
		At RAF St Mawgan in 1962 we had just seen a Mark 3 Shackleton in from 201 Squadron that had been on one of those long 12 hour maritime patrols and during the flight the reduction gear on number 3 engine to the propeller failed.
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	Royal Air Force Archives - Forces Friends Reunited at Lost Comms July 2003
		His name is Brian Lee-Cooper and he was a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF stationed at RAF Brampton Cambs.
		The only names I recall are the Shorts from Detmold, Leatham from Ballykelly and Laarbruch and a lady called JOan who had a child called Cheryl in Goch the same time as Siobhan was born, 1964.
		His name is Steven James Hambridge and he was a pilot at the RAF base in Upper Heyford.
	freespace.virgin.net /forces.friends/rarc/rjul.html (1024 words)

	Helicopter Database
		Opened in 1941 as RAF Ballykelly as a Coastal Command base.
		In 1947 it was re-opened with the RAF Joint Anti-Submarine School training flight.
		In Jan 1968, the RAF announced the base was to close and after a delay due to the late introduction of the Nimrod to the RAF inventory, the last Shackleton left RAF Ballykelly on 31 Mar 1971.
	www.helis.com /database?menu=2&tpais=UK&tbase=126 (227 words)

	World War 2 Ex RAF Ground Crew Notice Board Page 15
		Unfortunately Joyce has very little information about her fathers RAF service but would dearly like to contact anyone who may have known him.
		He joined the RAF in April 1940 and was demobed in March 1946.
		George joined the RAF at Halton in 1928 and was posted to Edinburgh Turnhouse with 83 Sqdn 1936-1938.
	www.worldwar2exraf.co.uk /Ground%20Crew%20Notice%20Board/Page%2015.htm (970 words)

	Postings etc
		Arriving at RAF Northolt in Feb66 he spent three weeks working in the telephone exchange with a load of women (not half as much fun as it sounds!), but then escaped to the Communications Centre for the remaining three weeks of this short posting.
		Chris did a HGV1 course courtesy of the RAF and the taxpayer, and got a job driving as soon as he left the mob: he gave it away after a week because it was impossible to maintain schedules safely and legally.
		Chris joined the RAF Boy Entrants' Association in 1994 and was the first membership secretary, from 1996 to 2002.
	www.cjallen.co.uk /50bea/tablecja.html (2533 words)

	Porton Down RAF volunteer 'died in nerve gas trials'
		Mike Cox was one of six volunteers put in a temperature-controlled chamber at the Ministry of Defence research centre in Wiltshire 46 years ago.
		With him was Ronald Maddison, 20, a leading aircraftman based at RAF Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, whose death is at the centre of a police investigation.
		He is believed to have died after 200mg of Sarin was dripped on to uniform material taped to his arm.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/10/28/ngas28.html (399 words)

	RAF Watton Picture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Sadly, whilst flying with 199 Squadron, 131 was lost with its crew over Germany in June 1955 during a night exercise when it was in collision with a USAF F86D Sabre.
		During June, at the request of the Admiralty, the CSE detached a Lincoln of Development Squadron to RAF Ballykelly in N.Ireland to assist in trials of naval RCM equipment.
		The last Avro Anson to be taken onto strength at Watton arrived at Watton to join ‘B’Flight 527 Squadron at the end of November.
	www.rafwatton.info /timeline/1952/pl1952.html (398 words)

	Tanjong Bungah Penang Malaysia
		I was in the RAF in Singapore from 1950-1953 and travelled frequently to RAF Butterworth in Penang.
		I did'nt know it as an RAF leave centre and the only women we encountered were the Naffi Girls who took care of our every need (almost) I remember one of them as Molly but being a virgin soldier I had to behave myself..
		I went to school at the RAF school on Butterworth before the RAAF School was established in the Governor's Residence, in Residence Rd I think.
	penangpage.com /tgbungah (13461 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		In June 1937 the Squadron moved to the newly opened airfield at Church Fenton where, during a ceremony presided over by Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the squadron was presented with its crest signed by King George VI.
		Rotary wing aviation was introduced to 72 Squadron in the shape of the Bristol Belvedere HC Mk 1, a forerunner of the Chinook.
		It maintained this detachment until 1981when the decision was made to move the entire Squadron to Aldergrove where it remained until its disbandment in June 2002 having supported the British Army and RUC unstintingly for 33 years.
	www.raf.mod.uk /raflintononouse/72rsqn.html (747 words)

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		Well, we had defence arrangements with the Trucial Gulf States, so it was decided that the might of the RAF (Shackletons and Hunters) and Army would sort this lot out.
		A con rod in No 2 engine had broken and smashed away a large area of the engine on the outside and needless to say there was oil everywhere.
		I was based at RAF Ballykelly in Northern Ireland on Mk 2 Shackletons.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /n.feist/Shack/shack3.htm (3251 words)

	Splashdown on the Equator
		I have always maintained that to be correct but others think longer, and certainly the pinnace arrived after the large launch and that it is thought the crew and those other two adrift arrived about an hour later.
		Roger Stevens recalls that he gave assistance at the jetty by lighting up the area with the fire engine lights and recalls the first person he had helped ashore was a corporal, Bill Grundy, who he had previously served with at RAF Ballykelly.
		The information I asked from official sources was slow in coming and in some instances non existent, and the records office of the Royal Air Force at RAF Innsworth were apologetic regarding the lack of information but did provide me with my service record and this information was scant to say the least.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /RRGP/Equator.htm (5002 words)

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