Since the US Navy's departure from the greater London area, the need for facilities at RAF Daws Hill have greatly diminished and the station is now being vacated.

When the RAF vacated the base, the gates from the main entrance were donated to the village of North Luffenham.

A radome at RAF Menwith Hill, a site with satellite downlink capabilities believed to be used by ECHELON.

There is something of a modern movement amongst Yorkshire residents to attempt to claim the legend of Robin Hood, to the extent that South Yorkshire's new airport, on the site of the redeveloped RAF Finningley airbase near Doncaster, although ironically in the historic county of Nottinghamshire, has been given the name Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield.

RAF Menwith Hill, a large site in the United Kingdom, part of ECHELON and the UKUSA Agreement.

RAF Menwith Hill, a large ECHELON site in the United Kingdom, and part of the UK-USA Security Agreement.

A Long barrow site believed to be from the Beaker people was flattened to make way for RAF Charmy Down.

RAF Menwith Hill, a large Echelon ( signals intelligence ) | ECHELON site in the United Kingdom, and part of the UK-USA Security Agreement

Test site at RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria

In August 1965, the Blue Streak was tested ( static firing trial ) with ( complete full-weight ) dummy upper stages at RAF Spadeadam ( the site was owned by Rolls Royce ), with first successful firing on 23 September 1965 lasting 135 seconds.

The site was used originally for the British No. 4 Maintenance Unit, together with the RAF Records division.

The nearby Thomas Tallis School is built on the former site of an RAF aerodrome, formerly a barrage balloon centre.

The Royal Air Force took over the site in 1939 for the use of RAF Coastal Command which made use of Eastbury house and also created a network of underground bunkers and operations blocks.

The Tri-Partite site known as RAF Fylingdales is named after the place but is not actually in the parish.

The school was built on the site of the World War II airfield RAF Pengam Moors.

Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk.

This site is the former RAF Hethel base and the test track uses sections of the old runway.

Elements may include the government's sinister operative from Men in Black, the military bases known as Area 51, RAF Rudloe Manor or Porton Down, a supposed crash site in Roswell, New Mexico, the Rendlesham Forest Incident, a political committee dubbed the " Majestic 12 " or successor of the UK Ministry of Defence's Flying Saucer Working Party ( FSWP ).

Based on the historic Duxford Aerodrome, the site was originally operated by the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) during the First World War.

Just outside the town, on the site of RAF Bury St Edmunds, is Bartrums Brewery, originally based in Thurston.

The village cemetery includes a War Graves site for airmen from RAF Coleby Grange and RAF Digby ( originally RAF Scopwick ), and includes that of the young Second World War poet and aviator John Gillespie Magee.

* TSR-2 page on RAF Museum Cosford site

HMP Low Moss was located on the outskirts of the town at the site of a former World War II RAF Barrage balloon station, near to the Strathkelvin Retail Park and Low Moss Industrial Estate at Cadder.

* HON ( Honiley ) VOR-DME station, located next to Honiley, UK on the site of the former RAF Honiley

* 1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.

After working on The Italian Job with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain ( both 1969 ), Caine played the lead in Get Carter ( 1971 ), a British gangster film.

* William Sholto Douglas ( 1893 – 1969 ) — RAF pilot and WWII military commander

In 1969 the special-purpose Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod, based on the de Havilland Comet airliner, was introduced into RAF service and Coastal Command duties were passed on to general squadrons.

However, less than eight weeks later, Coastal Command was disbanded and ceased to exist on 27 November 1969, when it was subsumed into RAF Strike Command.

In 1969 RAF Duxford, a Royal Air Force fighter airfield in Cambridgeshire was declared surplus to requirements by the Ministry of Defence.

The first version to be fully deployed, WE. 177B, was delivered to the Royal Air Force in September 1966 followed by deliveries of the WE. 177A to the Royal Navy beginning in 1969, and the RAF in 1971, after a delay caused by the need to produce the ET. 317 warhead for the UK Polaris A3T first ; and was followed by WE. 177C deliveries to the RAF.

Air-defence Phantoms ( FG1 ) also entered service in 1969 at RAF Leuchars.

In January 1957, the squadron converted to Canberra bombers at RAF Weston Zoyland, flying these from Cyprus, remaining there until disbanding on 3 February 1969.

Having been located outside of the UK for 50 years the squadron returned in 1969 and was the first to receive the Phantom FGR2 at RAF Coningsby the same year, before re-equipping with the Jaguar GR1 and T2 at RAF Lossiemouth in 1974.

42 Squadron and 236 Operational Conversion Unit moved to RAF Kinloss in 1992, taking away RAF St. Mawgan's fixed-wing station-based aircraft, the Nimrods which had been at the base since 1969.

Until January 1969 two squadrons ( 100 and 139 ) of Victor B. 2 bombers equipped with Blue Steel stand-off missiles were part of the QRA ( Quick Reaction Alert ) force of the RAF.

No. 12 squadron reformed at RAF Honington in October 1969 with 12 Buccaneer aircraft assigned to SACLANT in the anti-shipping role, equipped with 12 WE. 177 nuclear bombs and free-falling conventional HE bombs, and from 1974 with Martel missiles for non-nuclear strike.

The squadron was briefly disbanded on 1 September 1969, however was reformed the same day after being re-equipped with McDonnell-Douglas Phantoms at RAF Coningsby in 1969.

RAF Duxford, a Royal Air Force fighter station had been declared surplus to requirements by the Ministry of Defence in 1969, and the museum duly requested permission to use part of one of the airfield's hangars as temporary storage.

The Vulcan OCU stayed with RAF Finningley from June 1961 until December 1969.

In aircraft terms, the English Electric Lightning entered service in 1960 and the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in 1969, with No. 43 Squadron at RAF Leuchars.

* Frank Inglis ( 1899 – 1969 ), Head of RAF Intelligence in WW2

This was formed on 3 February 1969, when the Western Communications Squadron was re-designated at RAF Andover.

* Air Vice-Marshal George Lamb CB CBE, Station Commander of RAF Lyneham from 1969 – 71 ;