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Raf TopcliffeRAF Topcliffe is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire. It is a sattelite station of RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Topcliffe opened in September 1940 as a bomber station in RAF Bomber Command. There was a decoy site at Raskelf. Concrete runways were added in mid-1942. On 1 January 1943 it was transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and became a training station in November 1944. The army moved on to the site in 1972 and renamed much of it Alanbrooke Barracks. However all the flying facilities remain intact. The wartime control tower, with modifications, is still used, and the station is referred to as RAF Topcliffe by the RAF. During the eighties it was the home of the Royal Navy Elementary Flying School. In the nineties it was temporarily home to a Tucano squadron of RAF Central Flying School. It is currently the home of 645 Volunteer Glider School. RAF Topcliffe Topcliffe
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