A SQUADRON leader at RAF Leeming is celebrating 50 years in the air force by mentoring service personnel of the future. Sqn Ldr Spike Wilson has been serving as a full-time reservist with the Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron (NUAS) for almost a ...
A couple who fell in love during their time in the Royal Air Force are celebrating 60 years of marriage. Tony and Joan Hall met at RAF Dishforth when they were 20 and 18 respectively, and are due to celebrate their diamond wedding on Thursday. “I used ...
A memorial has been built in tribute to the crew of a Halifax bomber shot down over a North Yorkshire village. Halifax NA612 was returning to its base at RAF Dishforth in the early hours of 4 March 1945 when it was attacked by a German night fighter.