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RAF Locking was opened as a training unit in 1937. The Technical Site of RAF Locking, as distinct from the airfield about a mile away and called RAF Weston-super-Mare, was the home of the RAF's No.1 Radio School, until its relocation in 1999 to RAF Cosford.
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