RAF Valley | |||||||||
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Llu Awyr Brenhinol Y Fali | |||||||||
| Near Holyhead, Anglesey in Wales | |||||||||
 A RAF Hawk T.1 flying over RAF Valley. | |||||||||
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  RAF Valley Shown within Anglesey  RAF Valley RAF Valley (the United Kingdom) | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°14′53″N 004°32′07″W / 53.24806°N 4.53528°W | ||||||||
| Type | Training station | ||||||||
| Site information | |||||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||
| Controlled by | No. 2 Group No. 22 Group (Training) | ||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||
| Built | 1941 | ||||||||
| In use | 1941 – present | ||||||||
| Garrison information | |||||||||
| Current commander | No. 2 Group RAF - Group Captain Gez Currie No. 22 Group - Group Captain Matt Hoare[2] | ||||||||
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| Airfield information | |||||||||
| Identifiers | IATA: VLY, ICAO: EGOV, WMO: 03302 | ||||||||
| Elevation | 11 metres (36 ft) AMSL | ||||||||
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| DAFIF[3][4] | |||||||||
Royal Air Force Valley or more simply RAF Valley (Welsh: Llu Awyr Brenhinol Y Fali) (IATA: VLY, ICAO: EGOV) is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, and which is also used as Anglesey Airport. It provides both basic and advanced fast-jet training using the Beechcraft Texan T.1 and BAE Systems Hawk T.2 and provides mountain and maritime training for aircrew using the Airbus Jupiter HT.1 helicopter.
- ^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 106. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
- ^ "Royal Air Force". Royal Air Force.
- ^ "Airport information for EGOV". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF. - ^ Airport information for EGOV at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).