Operational Station
Sealand was a communications support base for RAF operations around the world. It functioned as a third-line repair base for avionics equipment for all three services.
Examples of equipment serviced : C12 Directional Gyroscope (Hercules), and other gyroscopic based navigational equiptment.
No 631 Volunteer Gliding Squadron operated at Sealand between 1963 and 2006, most recently flying the Viking TMk1 conventional winch-launched glider.
In March 2006, 631 VGS relocated to RAF Woodvale to operate the Grob109b 'Vigilant' self-launched motorglider.
Read more about this topic: RAF Sealand
Famous quotes containing the word station:
“Say first, of God above, or Man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of Man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)