On 30 April 1990, a Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton AEW Mk II aircraft, of No. 8 Squadron RAF, based at RAF Lossiemouth, crashed into a hill on the Isle...

RAF Lossiemouth (IATA: LMO, ICAO: EGQS) is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland....

to a requirement issued by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to replace its fleet of ageing Avro Shackletons, the Nimrod MR1/MR2s were fixed-wing aerial platforms...

224 Squadron RAF crashed into the sea following loss of landing gear on final approach to RAF Gibraltar. 25 June 1952 Shackleton MR.1 VP261 with a crew...

1957, the RAF participated heavily during the Jebel Akhdar War in Oman, operating both de Havilland Venom and Avro Shackleton aircraft. The RAF made 1,635...

flight during display over RAF Wyton, four killed. 1967 6 November 1967 - WL786 Avro Shackleton MR2 from Gan to Changi crashed into the Indian Ocean. 8...

An RAF York crashed after overshooting at RAF Dishforth, Yorkshire. 16 February 1948: An RAF York was damaged beyond repair during a landing at RAF Hullavington...

the crash but died of exposure in blizzard conditions. Their bodies are buried at the crash site. On 17 April 1942, Anson W2630 of RAF Wigtown crashed into...

its premise for a storyline, filmed at an RAF Tornado base in northern Scotland. The series was filmed at RAF Lossiemouth in October 1997. 21 April 1991:...

square section fuselage, and via the Lincoln, the Shackleton maritime patrol aircraft which continued in RAF service in that role until replaced by the Hawker...

high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A.V. Roe and Company (Avro)...

Aircraft crashed into the North Sea, 9 miles off Spurn Point, Humberside, United Kingdom 30 April An Avro Shackleton, of No. 8 Squadron RAF crashes into a...

"(Untitled)". Retrieved February 10, 2022. "Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation". www.rafweb.org. 2007. Archived from the original on January...

Service. This is a list of RAF aircraft, including all currently active and retired types listed in alphabetic order by their RAF type name. For just those...

7 December Avro Shackleton MR.3, WR970, first flown 2 September 1955, and operated by Avro for stall-warning development, crashes while on local flight...

one of their new BMEWS radars to the UK, initially to Scotland, but later to Yorkshire at RAF Fylingdales where it could be better protected. This led...

the Aurora. However, the Aurora arrived in New Zealand in April, and Shackleton managed to reach South Georgia in May, and the relief ship was not needed...

1990, p.52. Flight 1954 p87 Gregorie, Martin C. "The Avro 504K". Martin Gregorie's Home Page. Retrieved 16 July 2021. "Peace Loan Aeroplane crashes in...

waters. However, RAF Coastal Command acquired Mk 101 Lulu nuclear depth bombs (with the W34 nuclear warhead) for its Avro Shackleton and Hawker Siddeley...

VIIB/3m Avro 642 Eighteen Related lists List of aircraft of the RAF Jackson, A J (1990). Avro Aircraft since 1908 (2nd ed.). London: Putnam Aeronautical...

due to the lack of an AEW platform. The proposed fleet cover by the RAF Shackleton AEW.2 was too unresponsive and at too great a distance to be practical...

on board. December 11 – A Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton MR.2 crashes into the sea off Argyll, Scotland, during an antisubmarine warfare exercise, killing...

in Heysham, England. an RAF Puma helicopter was hit by an IRA mortar over Newtownhamilton, County Armagh, and forced to crash-land on a GAA pitch. 13...

station had drifted 2850 km to the eastern coast of Greenland. In May 1945 an RAF Lancaster of the Aries expedition became the first Commonwealth aircraft...

refused permission for Lord Shackleton to travel via Argentina. Later the ship transporting Shackleton to the islands, RRS Shackleton, was fired upon by the...

wanting me to give up things, what is it I ought to give up?" - Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic Explorer (5 January 1922) "Thy Holy Will be done...

1932) 2000 – Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (born 1924) 2000 – Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (born 1922) 2002 – Billie Bird, American...

rocket attack on Kowon. A Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton MR.1 crashes into the sea off Tarbat Ness, Scotland, during a gunnery exercise, killing all 14 people...

star, Cilla Black, at her funeral in Liverpool. 22 August – An RAF Hawker Hunter crashes into vehicles on the A27 near Shoreham in West Sussex during the...

– Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill, RAF flight lieutenant (killed in action, Iraq) (born 1973) 7 May – Duncan Inglis Cameron, Scottish university administrator (born...