Fighter Command was one of three functional commands – along with Bomber Command and Coastal Command – of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of ...

The airfield was originally under RAF Fighter Command control, but had an interesting role to play before the war. It was ...

After France fell, the Blenheims were tasked with day and night attacks against Nazi-occupied ports and installations.

On this day in aviation history, February 18, 1944, the Royal Air Force launched a daring mission to liberate imprisoned French resistance fighters through a low-level precision bombing mission that ...

At the eastern end of the magnificent Lady Chapel built by King Henry VII is a chapel dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force who died in the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940. This ...

For years one of the engines of an RAF Mosquito reconnaissance spy plane has lain on the Welsh hillside where it crashed - ...

Volunteers at RAF Bircham Newton Heritage Centre have found the RAF Docking Memorial on the B1153, near Kings Lynn has been damaged.

Photo: An RAF Flight Lieutenant Photo Interpreter busy with the tools of his trade - aerial photographs, stereoscopes and the plans of a target, in 1944. (Medmenham Collection) Aerial intelligence ...

The RAF base at Biggin Hill, south-east of London, played a central part in the Battle of Britain. Part of 11 Group, it was responsible for protecting the south-east of England and guarding the ...

King Charles visited RAF Coningsby and toured the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight hangar where he met veterans. Lena Lewald, who works at German history body the Möhnesee Archive, said it was ...

Located over the Cambridgeshire border is a former RAF base which was used during the Second World War and beyond. RAF Debden, near Saffron Walden, first opened in April 1937. The airfield was ...