RAF Nicosia

Royal Air Force Station Nicosia
Active	1930s - 1966
Country	UN controlled buffer zone, Cyprus
Allegiance	UK: British Armed Forces
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Flying station
Role	Forward Operating Base
Part of	UK: British Armed Forces, British Forces Cyprus
Based	Nicosia, Cyprus
Nickname	"Nic"
Motto	In Quadrivio Paratus
Royal Air Force Ensign
March	Royal Air Force March Past

RAF Nicosia
RAF Nicosia crest
IATA: NIC – ICAO: LCNC
Summary
Airport type		Military (and formerly: joint Military & Civil)
Owner		Ministry of Defence
Operator		formerly: Royal Air Force, now: United Nations
Serves		Nicosia
Location		Lefkosia, Cyprus
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
			asphalt
			asphalt

The former Royal Air Force Station Nicosia, commonly known as RAF Nicosia, was a Royal Air Force airbase in Cyprus. RAF Nicosia was Headquarters Royal Air Force Cyprus from 8 June to 29 July 1941

Originally, it was the main principal airport for Cyprus, being constructed in the 1930s as RAF Nicosia, and supported both civil and military aviation on the island. The RAF disestablished the station in 1966.

The airport is still owned by the UK Ministry of Defence, but is controlled by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus and is used by United Nations peace-keeping patrol helicopters.

RAF Nicosia squadrons and aircraft

• No. 6 Squadron RAF - operating Spitfire (Oct. 1946); de Havilland Venom (from Aug. 1955)???
• No. 8 Squadron RAF - operating Auster AOP6 (from Jul. 1950); de Haviland Vampire (from Jul. 1953)
• No. 29 Squadron RAF - operating Gloster Javelin (from Mar. 1963)
• No. 32 Squadron RAF - operating English Electric Canberra B2
• No. 33 Squadron RAF - operating Gloster Javelin FAW7
• No. 39 Squadron RAF - operating Gloster Meteor NF13
• No. 43 Squadron RAF - operating Hawker Hunter FGA 9 (from Jun. 1961)
• No. 70 Squadron RAF - operating Vickers Valetta C1, Handley Page Hastings
• No. 73 Squadron RAF - operating de Havilland Venom FB4
• No. 74 Squadron RAF - operating Spitfire V, later Mk IX (from Sep. 1943)
• No. 80 Squadron RAF - operating Hurricane MkI (from Jun. 1941)
• No. 84 Squadron RAF - operating Vickers Valetta C1
• No. 103 Squadron RAF - operating Bristol Sycamore HC1
• No. 114 Squadron RAF - operating Vickers Valetta C1, de Havilland Chipmunk T10
• No. 185 Squadron RAF - operating ???
• No. 202 Squadron RAF - operating Hawker Hunter F6
• No. 208 Squadron RAF - operating ???
• No. 213 Squadron RAF - operating ???
• No. 230 Squadron RAF - operating Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC1
• No. 234 Squadron RAF - operating ???
• No. 249 Squadron RAF - operating de Havilland Venom FB1
• No. 256 Squadron RAF - operating ???
• No. 284 Squadron RAF - operating Bristol Sycamore HR14
• No. 603 Squadron RAF - operating ???
• No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment
• No. 21 Squadron RAF Regiment
• No. 26 Squadron RAF Regiment
• No. 27 Squadron RAF Regiment
• No. 29 Squadron RAF Regiment
• No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment
• No. 37 Squadron RAF Regiment

• No. 14 Squadron RNZAF - operating de Haviland Vampire (1952-55)

External links

• the murder of Corporal Patrick J. Hale at RAF Nicosia

See also

• Royal Air Force station
• List of RAF stations
• List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
• List of aircraft of the RAF
• Nicosia International Airport