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Royal Air Force Benson or RAF Benson ( IATA: BEX, ICAO: EGUB) is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located at Benson, near Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire, England. It is a front-line station and home to the RAF's fleet of Westland Puma HC2 support helicopters, used primarily for the transportation of troops & equipment.
The Station. RAF Benson in South Oxfordshire is a support helicopter main operating base working within the Joint Helicopter Command. RAF Benson is home to two front-line Puma HC2 helicopter squadrons and one Operational Conversion Unit, flying a mix of Puma HC2 and Chinook HC4 helicopters. It is also home to the Operational Evaluation Unit of ...
Die Royal Air Force Station Benson, kurz RAF Benson, ist ein Militärflugplatz der britischen Royal Air Force am südöstlichen Ortsrand von Benson in der Grafschaft Oxfordshire, England. Neben RAF Odiham ist Benson eine von zwei Haupteinsatzbasen der „Unterstützungshubschrauber“ der sogenannten Support Helicopter Force. Die Basis ist ...
RAF Benson is een vliegveld van de Royal Air Force, nabij Benson (Oxfordshire). Het is, samen met RAF Odiham een thuisbasis van de ondersteuningshelikopters van de RAF, de zogenaamde Support Helicopter Force .
Royal Air Force Benson or RAF Benson is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located at Benson, near Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire, England. It is a front-line station and home to the RAF's fleet of Westland Puma HC2 support helicopters, used primarily for the transportation of troops & equipment.
Number 28 Squadron, also known as No. 28 (Army Co-operation) Squadron or No. 28 (AC) Squadron, is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. Based at RAF Benson, it serves as the RAF's Operational Conversion Unit for the Westland Puma HC2 and Boeing Chinook HC5/6/6A helicopters.
Construction of RAF Benson finished in 1939. Its establishment on land previously farmed, meant the destruction of the 18th-century Lamb pub, which once stood on the outskirts of the village, near the present Crash Gate No 6. On 1st April 1939, 103 Squadron arrived from Abingdon followed by 150 Squadron from Boscombe Down the following day.
