A Battle of Britain class steam locomotive adopted the nameplate ‘Royal Auxiliary Air Force’ at an unveiling service held at the Nene Valley Railway on 27 May 2023.
Evacuation from Sudan
During the last two weeks of April 2023, 35 RAuxAF personnel from 4624 (County of Oxford) Squadron provided specialist air movements reinforcements at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and RAF Akrotiri, and Larnaca
Honorary Air Commodores’ Conference
Almost all RAuxAF Sqns and Units have an Honorary Air Commodore (HAC).
Coronation Garden Party
The Royal Auxiliary Air Force Foundation was delighted to have been invited to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III at a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace on 9th May.
KVRM Dinner 2023
The King’s Volunteer Reserves Medal Association held its Annual Dinner on 24th March at the RAF Club, Piccadilly, London.
Force Awards – 2022
The Royal Auxiliary Air Force awards for 2022 have recently been announced.
502 Squadron Nurse Awarded Top Honour
Squadron Leader Mary B O’Neill of 502 (Ulster) Squadron has been awarded the prestigious King’s Volunteer Reservist Medal in the 2023 New Year Honours List.
Commemorative Tree
On the 29th October 2022, the Queens’s Volunteer Reserves Medal Association (QVRM) planted and dedicated a Copper Beech in Windsor Great Park to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee and to support the Queen’s Green Canopy project.
Treasured Links
The Royal Auxiliary Air Force enjoyed a long and much valued association with Her Majesty beginning in June 1951.
Farewell to The Air Commodore-in-Chief
The Royal Auxiliary Air Force and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force Foundation were greatly saddened to receive the news that Her Majesty The Queen, the Force’s Air Commodore-in-Chief, had died at Balmoral on 8th September 2022.