Major Alistair Stocker told the inquest the airbase at Basra was "like a small city" and very busy.
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There are 16 buildings on the airbase, including former radar rooms, tennis and squash courts, station headquarters and the old officers' mess.
The exhibition, which also includes video and audio interviews, looks at the different jobs at the airbase, the living conditions and how people spent their leisure time.
The exhibition, which will open at the airbase on 28 March, tells the stories of people who lived and worked there during World War II and the Cold War.
Following the incident at the Lincolnshire airbase, the RAF grounded all non-essential flying of all Hawk T1 aircraft fitted with the Mk10 Martin Baker-built ejection seat for one month "as a precaution".
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To take one example, a kilometre from the Bagram airbase, and just off the main road, a crowd gathered recently as the bodies of three Afghan soldiers were carefully dragged clear.
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The helicopters lift off from the Kandahar airbase and head to Zargaran, stopping halfway, where more choppers carrying regular Afghan army soldiers join the operation.
There, a U.S. C-9 transport would pick the three up and transfer them to the American airbase in Ramstein, Germany.
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The first of the two C17s left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday and was loaded with French armoured vehicles and other equipment at the Evreux airbase in Normandy overnight.
His secret dash to Afghanistan and speech from the Bagram airbase (speaking at 4am local time in order to hit prime-time TV back home) suggests that Mr Obama has decided to squeeze every ounce of electoral advantage from it.
But even allowing for seasonal adjustments, Tony Blair must be wondering what he has done to earn the scorn dumped on him after his own return this week from a visit to India, Pakistan and, fleetingly, the Bagram airbase outside Kabul.
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An Angus airfield is marking 100 years after becoming the first military airbase to be established in the United Kingdom.
France has its eye on the nearby military airbase, a highly strategic facility which it built in the 1950s.
The four-engine jet left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, but was grounded at the Evreux-Fauville airbase until Tuesday to allow the "minor technical fault" to be fixed.
The next day, during an unsuccessful rescue at a NATO airbase, the other nine were killed.
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The group outside West Sussex council offices in Crawley want the government to let them return to Diego Garcia, which became a US airbase in the 1970s.
The plane came down shortly after take-off and crashed within the boundaries of the huge US-run airbase, said a Nato spokesperson at the base.
On the other hand, our big airbase in southeastern Turkey, Incirlik, is the key staging area for logistics in northern Iraq.
The RAF has provided air traffic control support for Newquay airport until now because the RAF St Mawgan airbase is next door.
Our force operated in the night, so I typically woke in the late morning, and did an hour-long run along the runways at Balad Airbase.
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Mr White, who was hired to help guard Shindand airbase in the western Afghan province of Herat, was killed in 2007 by a rival Afghan security contractor.
The Germans have sent a cargo aircraft to a Turkish airbase on standby for use in Afghanistan and the French have sent special forces to Uzbekistan ready to secure an airfield near Mazar-e Sharif.
Ten days ago Britain deployed an advance party of 85 Royal Marines into Bagram airbase, north of the Afghan capital Kabul, earlier this month and it was expected a much larger force would follow.
Montrose airbase, which now houses the museum, tells the story of how the Angus town became a part of military history.
Kyrgyzstan had invited Russia to station attack aircraft at an airbase on its territory - the first time Russia had opened a foreign military base since the end of the Soviet Union.
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It was to end at an American airbase in Dayton, Ohio, where the Bosnian peace deal was concluded in November 1995.
The defendants listen through headphones to an Arabic translation of proceedings at the specially-built Scottish court at a disused US airbase.
Families were exiled from Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands, in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US Indian Ocean airbase, and had to leave for Mauritius.
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