RAF Northolt
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| Address | A4180 W End Rd, Ruislip, United Kingdom |
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| Code | NHT |
| Elevation | 38 |
| Phone | +44 20 8845 2300 |
| Occupants | No. 32 Squadron RAF |
| No. 600 Squadron RAF | |
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| ID | 3003516 |
About RAF Northolt
RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in South Ruislip, 2 nautical miles from Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, west London, England, approximately 6 mi north of London Heathrow Airport. The station handles many private civil flights in addition to Air Force flights.
Where is the RAF Northolt
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... For example, on 19 January, the prime minister flew from Raf Northolt in west London to Blackpool Airport on a Dassault Falcon 900LX...
Rishi Sunak defends jet use after Labour 'A-list' jibe
... Mr Sunak reportedly made the trip to Blackpool from Raf Northolt early on Thursday morning using a 14-seater Dassault Falcon 900LX...
Queen's name inscribed on family chapel stone at Windsor
... The pair were pictured in a vehicle which arrived at Raf Northolt and was reportedly bound for Balmoral - the estate on which the King s Scottish home of Birkhall is located...
Queen Elizabeth II: Flight carrying coffin most tracked plane in history
... Nearly six million people tried to follow the plane s route from Edinburgh to Raf Northolt within its first minute in the air, the website said...
Royal Family to receive Queen Elizabeth II's coffin at Buckingham Palace
... Thousands paid their respects as the Queen lay at rest in St Giles Cathedral, in Edinburgh overnight, before her coffin was flown to Raf Northolt, in north-west London this evening...
Crowds line Edinburgh streets for Queen's farewell to Scotland
... It will be taken by cortège to Edinburgh Airport before being flown to Raf Northolt in London...
Queen's lying-in-state: What we know of the plans
... After lying at rest, the coffin will depart the cathedral at 15:00 BST on Tuesday accompanied by Princess Anne, to be flown from Edinburgh Airport to Raf Northolt in London, before being driven to Buckingham Palace...
King Charles III to address Houses of Parliament before Scotland trip
... Her coffin will remain at the cathedral for 24 hours for members of the public to pay their respects, before being flown back to Raf Northolt and then travelling on to Buckingham Palace...
Queen Elizabeth II: Flight carrying coffin most tracked plane in history
The Flight taking The Queen 's coffin to London was The Most tracked in history, website Flightradar24 has said.
Nearly six million people tried to follow the plane's route from Edinburgh to Raf Northolt within its first minute in the air, the website said.
The huge traffic caused The Service , which allows users to track The Path of planes in the air, to crash.
More Than 4. 79 million people watched on its site and app and 296,000 were watching on a YouTube stream, it said.
The previous record was when a flight carrying US politician Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan last month was followed by 2. 2 million people on Flightradar24.
The Queen 's coffin was flown on a RAF Globemaster C-17, after lying in state at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.
The Flight used The Callsign " Kittyhawk" used for any military flight with The Queen on board.
Princess Anne and her husband Sir Timothy Laurence accompanied The Coffin , with The Princess saying she had felt fortunate to be able to share The Final hours of The Life of her " dearest mother".
" It has been an honour and a privilege to accompany her on her final journeys, " she added.
Prime Minister Liz Truss and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace were among those waiting at Raf Northolt for The Flight , which landed just before 19:00 BST.
Flightradar24 said it had taken steps to make its platform as stable as possible before the plane took off.
The Flight to Taiwan taken by attracted interest as she was the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit Taiwan, which China sees as a breakaway province.
Explaining how Tuesday's figures had dwarfed that traffic, Flightradar24 said: " Based on our experience last month, we expected a large influx of users, but this immediate, massive spike was beyond what we had anticipated. "
It said about 600,000 users were able to " successfully follow The Flight before performance degraded".
" Even though our platform suffered under such Heavy Load , Queen Elizabeth Ii 's final flight from Edinburgh to Raf Northolt is by far the all-time most tracked flight on Flightradar24 and will likely remain at The Top for a long while, " it said.
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