To mark the centenary of the founding of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in 2024, 607 (County of Durham) Squadron) presented the North East Land, Sea and Air Museum with an iconic gift
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602 Squadron Enters the Space Age
At a ceremony held at the University of Strathclyde on 17 April 2024, 3 personnel from 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron were awarded Space Command Badges having completed a Space Foundation Course.
War Hero Receives Overdue Medal
Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank (Retd) who is 103 years old is the sole surviving holder of the Victoria Cross from World War 2.
Top Award for Dowding Scholarship Winner
The Dowding Scholarship is a Chief of the Air Staff initiative which encourages, inter alia, members of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force to undertake a course of advanced study.
RAuxAF 100 – A March for the Royal Auxiliary Air Force
In 2-15, the Foundation Trustees debated as to whether the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF) had its own march.
RAuxAF 100 – Centenary Dinner
A Dinner commemorating the Centenary of the founding of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force was held at Royal Air Force Cranwell on 28th February 2024.
RAuxAF 100 – 614 Squadron’s Tribute
At a moving Service held on 1st February 2024 at in Cathays Park in Cardiff’s Civic Centre, 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron planted a flowering cherry tree to mark the centenary of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and also the 10th anniversary of the Squadron’s reformation.
RAuxAF 100 – Locomotive Naming Ceremony Part 1
In early 2023, a Trustee of the RAuxAF Foundation, Squadron Leader Alfie Hall, worked in partnership with the Nene Valley Railway and the Battle of Britain Locomotive Society to rename the steam engine “92 Squadron” as “Royal Auxiliary Air Force”.
RAF Brize Norton’s Parachuting Reservists
In September 2023, as part of an adventurous training exercise, four members of 4624 Movements Squadron and three from 501 Logistics Support Squadron attended a parachute training course at the Army Air Training Wing at Airfield Camp, Netheravon.
Lord Selkirk
On 28th November 2023, The Right Honourable Lord Selkirk of Douglas (James Douglas Hamilton) died in hospital in Edinburgh after a short illness.









