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RAF Camora
RAF Camora, born Raphael Ragucci in 1984, is an Austrian rapper and producer based in Berlin who blends German-language street rap with trap and dancehall.
RAF Coningsby
RAF Coningsby, or Royal Air Force Coningsby, is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, home to Typhoon combat aircraft and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
RAF Cosford
RAF Cosford, also known as DCAE Cosford, is a Royal Air Force technical training station in Shropshire, opened 15 July 1938, home to the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering, RAF Museum Midlands, and the Cosford Airshow.
RAF Cranwell
RAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England, and the RAF's principal center for initial officer training, described as the world's first air academy.
RAF Doncaster
RAF Doncaster, also known as Doncaster Aerodrome, was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, operating from 1916 to 1919.
RAF Fairford
RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England, opened in 1944 and the US Air Force's only European forward operating location for heavy strategic bombers.
RAF Finningley
RAF Finningley was a Royal Air Force station near Doncaster, opened in 1936 and used as a bomber training base, V-bomber nuclear strike station, and flying training center.
RAF Fylingdales
RAF Fylingdales, or Royal Air Force Fylingdales, is an RAF station on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire that has provided continuous ballistic missile early warning since 1963.
RAF Gatow
RAF Gatow, former Luftwaffe airfield in Kladow, Spandau, Berlin; Royal Air Force station 1945–1994. Key Berlin Airlift field handling about 40% of supplies, now the Bundeswehr Military History Museum's Berlin-Gatow branch.
RAF Georgia
RAF Georgia (Real American Freestyle Georgia) was RAF's first international professional freestyle wrestling event, held July 11, 2026 at Tbilisi Arena, Tbilisi, Georgia, headlined by Dvalishvili vs Cejudo, with Kyle Snyder pinning Abdulrashid Sadulaev to retain the light heavyweight title.
RAF Greenham Common
RAF Greenham Common was a Royal Air Force and US Air Force airbase in Berkshire, England, used from 1941 to 1992 and known for Cold War cruise missiles and a women's peace camp.
RAF High Wycombe
RAF High Wycombe, at Walters Ash, Buckinghamshire, is the RAF station hosting HQ Air Command (Air & Space Command from 2026) and UK Space Command; formerly the disguised wartime HQ of Bomber Command, codename Southdown.
RAF Honington
RAF Honington, also known as Royal Air Force Honington, is an RAF station in Suffolk, England, opened in 1937 and home of the RAF Regiment since 1994.
RAF Iraq Command
RAF Iraq Command, also known as British Forces in Iraq, controlled all British forces in Mandatory Iraq from 1922 under an air policing scheme after the 1920 revolt.
RAF Lakenheath
RAF Lakenheath is a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England, operated by the United States Air Force and home to the 48th Fighter Wing since 1948.
RAF Linton-on-Ouse
RAF Linton-on-Ouse: former RAF bomber and training station 10 miles north of York, opened 13 May 1937, home of No 4 Group, later RCAF No 62 Base and No 1 FTS; final Tucano graduation October 2019.
RAF Lyneham
RAF Lyneham was a Royal Air Force air transport station in Wiltshire, England, opened in 1940, home of the Hercules transport fleet and the RAF's largest operational airfield in 1976; flying ended in 2011 and it is now MOD Lyneham.
RAF Menwith Hill
RAF Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, providing communications and intelligence support to the United Kingdom and the United States.
RAF Mildenhall
RAF Mildenhall, also RAF Station Mildenhall, is a Royal Air Force base in Suffolk, England, opened 1934, hosting the USAF 100th Air Refueling Wing and 352nd Special Operations Wing since 1948.
RAF Moscow
RAF Moscow is a 2026 professional wrestling and freestyle event staged in Moscow by Real American Freestyle with the International Boxing Association, headlined by Khamzat Chimaev's 94-second pin of Tyron Woodley.
RAF Mount Batten
RAF Mount Batten, formerly RAF Cattewater, was a Royal Air Force flying boat station at Plymouth, Devon, from 1917 to 1992, best known as the wartime base of No. 10 Squadron RAAF.
RAF Mount Pleasant
RAF Mount Pleasant, also called the Mount Pleasant Complex, is a Royal Air Force base in the Falkland Islands opened in 1985 after the Falklands War.
RAF Northolt
RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in west London, opened in 1915 and used by both military and civilian aircraft for government and VIP flights.
RAF officer ranks
The RAF officer ranks are the Royal Air Force's eleven commissioned ranks, from Pilot Officer up to Marshal of the Royal Air Force, introduced on 4 August 1919.
RAF Regiment
RAF Regiment, the Royal Air Force's ground combat force, formed 1 February 1942; motto Per Ardua. Gunners defend airfields and aircraft, train the wider RAF, and have served in the Falklands, Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Raf Simons
Raf Simons (born 1968, Neerpelt, Belgium) is a Belgian fashion designer, founder of his 1995 eponymous menswear label, and former creative director of Jil Sander, Dior, and Calvin Klein, now Prada co-creative director.
RAF Spadeadam
RAF Spadeadam is a Royal Air Force station in Cumbria, England, hosting Europe's only Electronic Warfare Tactics facility where UK and NATO aircrews train against simulated threats.
RAF Tangmere
RAF Tangmere, also called Royal Air Force Station Tangmere, was a fighter station in West Sussex and an 11 Group sector station during the Battle of Britain.
RAF Upper Heyford
RAF Upper Heyford (Heyford Park), Oxfordshire: RAF and USAF airfield opened 1918, SAC B-47 base 1953-1965, F-111E wing 1970-1993; 56 hardened aircraft shelters, scheduled Cold War monuments, now redeveloped.
RAF Valley
RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on Anglesey, Wales, home of No 4 Flying Training School, which trains the UK's fast jet pilots.