No. 135 Expeditionary Air Wing

No.135 Expeditionary Air Wing
No. 135 Expeditionary Air Wing (Fighter) RAF
No. 135 (Fighter) Wing RAF
No. 135 Airfield RAF
ActiveNovember 1943 - May 1944
May 1944 - December 1947
April 1953 - January 1960
April 2006 - present [citation needed]
CountryUnited Kingdom
BranchRoyal Air Force
Part ofPart of RAF Air Command
Home stationRAF Leeming
Aircraft flown
FighterSupermarine Spitfire
Hawker Tempest
Canadair Sabre
Hawker Hunter

No. 135 Expeditionary Air Wing previously No. 135 Wing is a wing of the Royal Air Force. It was stationed at RAF Leeming, controlling the deployable subunits of the base (but not the flying squadrons). It was activated on 1 April 2006 as part of a modernisation package to make the RAF more deployable on an expeditionary basis.