Nicholas Soames
Conservative, Mid Sussex
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which RAF bases were used for operational flying in the last 12 months; and which aircraft operated from each base.
Nick Harvey
The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
The Information requested is detailed in the following table.
| RAF unit | Aircraft |
| RAF Lossiemouth | Tornado GR4 and Sea King Mk3/3a |
| RAF Leuchars | Typhoon and Tornado F3 (until March 2011) |
| RAF Boulmer | Sea King Mk3/3a |
| RAF Leeming | Hawk T1 |
| DST Leconfield | Sea King Mk3/3a |
| RAF Waddington | Nimrod R1 (until June 2011), Sentry and Sentinel, King Air |
| RAF Coningsby | Typhoon |
| RAF Cottesmore/Wittering | Harrier (until December 2010) |
| RAF Marham | Tornado GR4 |
| Wattisham Airfield | Sea King Mk3/3a |
| RAF Brize Norton | Hercules C130J and C130K, C17, Tristar and VC10 |
| RAF Lyneham | Hercules C130J and C130K (until June 2011) |
| RAF Benson | Puma and Merlin Mk3/3a |
| RAF Northolt | BAe146, HS125 and Agusta 109 |
| RMB Chivenor | Sea King Mk3/3a |
| RAF Odiham | Chinook |
| RAF Akrotiri | Griffin HAR2, Tristar and VC10, Nirnrod R1, Sentinel, E3D Sentry, Hercules C130 |
| Mount Pleasant Airfield, Falklands | Hercules C130J, Typhoon and VC10 Sea King Mk3/3a |
| RAF Valley | Sea King Mk3/3a |
| Notes: 1. Includes established RAF units and permanent air bases in the UK, Cyprus and Falklands. 2. Excludes the flying training pipeline, operational conversion units, operational evaluation units and the Red Arrows. | |
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