RAF Aqir

RAF Aqir was a Royal Air Force station in Palestine from 1941 to 1948, since 1948 it has been an Israeli Air Force base Tel Nof Airbase.

Operational units

*No. 6 Squadron RAF (1941) Westland Lysander
*No. 10 Squadron RAF detachment (1942) Handley Page Halifax
*No. 11 Squadron RAF (1941) Bristol Blenheim IV
*No. 32 Squadron RAF (1946) Supermarine Spitfire IX
*No. 37 Squadron RAF (1945) Consolidated Liberator VI
*No. 45 Squadron RAF (1941) Bristol Blenheim IV
*No. 55 Squadron RAF (1941) Bristol Blenheim IV
*No. 70 Squadron RAF (1945) Consolidated Liberator VI
*No. 76 Squadron RAF detachment (1941) Handley Page Halifax
*No. 80 Squadron RAF (1941) Hawker Hurricane I
*No. 84 Squadron RAF (1941) Bristol Blenheim IV
*No. 113 Squadron RAF (1946-1947) Handley Page Halifax
*No. 159 Squadron RAF (1942) Consolidated Liberator II
*No. 160 Squadron RAF (1942) Consolidated Liberator II
*No. 162 Squadron RAF (1942) Vickers Wellington later Bristol Blenheim IV
*No. 208 Squadron RAF (1941) Hawker Audax and (1946) Supermarine Spitfire VIII
*No. 211 Squadron RAF (1941) Bristol Blenheim IV
*No. 215 Squadron RAF (1947) Douglas Dakota
*No. 221 Squadron RAF detachment (1945) Vickers Wellington XII
*No. 227 Squadron RAF (1942) Handley Page Halifax
*No. 250 Squadron RAF (1941) Curtiss Tomhawk IIB
*No. 294 Squadron RAF detachment (1944) Vickers Wellington IC
*No. 335 Squadron RAF (1941) Hawker Hurricane I
*No. 450 Squadron RAAF (1941) Hawker Hurricane I
*No. 620 Squadron RAF (1946) Douglas Dakota and Handley Page Halifax
*No. 621 Squadron RAF (1946) Avro Lancaster ASRIII
*No. 680 Squadron RAF detachment (1945) Fairchild Argus

References

* G G Jefford, "RAF Squadrons", second edition 2001, Airlife Publishing, UK, ISBN 1-84037-141-2.

ee also

*List of RAF stations