Expeditionary Air Wing - Deployed EAWs

Deployed EAWs

• Al-Udeid, Qatar - No 901 EAW
• Seeb, Oman - No 902 EAW
• Basra, Iraq - No 903 EAW (Stood down May 2009)
• Kandahar, Afghanistan - No 903 EAW (Previously No. 904 EAW until December 2009 )
• RAF Mount Pleasant, Falklands Islands - No. 905 Expeditionary Air Wing; 1 Apr 2006 - Current,
• Headquarters 906 Expeditionary Air Wing at Gioia del Colle Air Base for Operation Ellamy
  • 10 × Typhoon multirole fighters from RAF Coningsby and RAF Leuchars,
  • 16 × Tornado GR4 interdictor/strike aircraft from RAF Marham
• No. 906 Expeditionary Air Wing RAF was stood up at Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates on 15 January 2013.
• Headquarters 907 Expeditionary Air Wing at RAF Akrotiri
  • 3 × Sentry AEW.1 AWACS aircraft from RAF Waddington
  • 1 x Nimrod R1 signals intelligence aircraft - operational requirements forced the Royal Air Force to deploy one of its two remaining Nimrod R1s two weeks before they were due to be withdrawn.
  • 1 x Sentinel R1 airborne standoff radar aircraft from RAF Waddington
  • 2 × VC10 air-to-air refuelling tankers from RAF Brize Norton