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RAF Sopley was a World War II station, codenamed Starlight, near the village of Sopley in Hampshire. The Radar Station was opened in December 1940. In...

Sopley is a village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. It lies on the old main road from Christchurch to...

2019 under one command on one site. In 1972 the Area Radar School at RAF Sopley in south-west Hampshire moved to Shawbury, being known as the Area Radar...

(GCI) was first developed in the UK during the early part of WWII, at RAF Sopley in Hampshire, close to Bournemouth. Development of the system began in...

This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...

Ground Controlled Intercept Radar Station at Sopley 1941- 45". Starlight, Southern Radar and RAF Sopley. Archived from the original on 2020-11-26. Retrieved...

when Airwork was appointed to operate RAF Oxford for the benefit of trainee radar operators at the RAF Sopley radar station situated close to Hurn. The...

from RNAS Ford and RAF Sopley; flights by Gloster Meteors and de Havilland Venoms for calibration purposes were also conducted by the RAF. Operational demands...

Unit under the control of the Ground Control Intercept (GCI) station RAF Sopley. In 1952 the site was remodelled as one of seven underground Centimetric...

R-type.org. Retrieved 10 February 2013. "Starlight, Southern Radar and RAF Sopley". Winkton.net. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved...

Research Establishment (TRE) and built by Decca for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It could reliably detect a large fighter or small bomber at ranges over...

RAF Tengah, Singapore Tornado F.3 Operational Evaluation Unit RAF at RAF Coningsby (1987-??) Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit RAF at RAF Honington/RAF...

during November and December 1940, and the first went operational at RAF Sopley on New Year's Day 1941, with the rest following by the end of the month...

1944 at RAF Church Fenton within No. 85 Group RAF controlling No. 141 Airfield RAF. The wing moved to Sopley Park on 26 April 1944 and became No. 21 (Base...

at RAF units using civil and military staff and radio communications, but military radar. Other JATCRUs in the UK included Southern Radar at Sopley near...

reported the sighting of the three saucer objects to his Ground Control at RAF Sopley, and abruptly cancelled the training flight. Lt Crofts asked whether to...

Bars, DFC & Bar, AE (27 July 1917 – 21 July 2002) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter ace during the Second World War and a test pilot. During the...

Portland Prestatyn RAF Ringstead Rye Sandwich RAF Saxa Vord Scarinish School Hill Seaton Snook Sennen RAF Shipton Snaefell Sopley St Annes St Margarets...

The New Forest - Its History and its Scenery, published in 1867: Leaving Sopley, we come to Winkton, the Weringetone of Domesday, where stood two mills...

salmon huts, farmhouses and extensive water meadows) Avon Tyrrell House, Sopley (includes lodge and gazebo) The largest of this type is England's main World...