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3 unusual facts about Lossiemouth


804 Naval Air Squadron

Other than for two periods ashore at Lossiemouth, the squadron operated from Hermes until the unit disbanded in September 1961.

807 Naval Air Squadron

807 remained at Lossiemouth throughout 1959, working up and taking part in exercises and trials.

The squadron was recommissioned on 1 October 1958 at RNAS Lossiemouth under the command of Lieutenant Commander Keith Leppard.


Akkajaure

On 12 November 1944, Avro Lancaster bombers of RAF squadrons 9 and 617 flying from Lossiemouth and Milltown rendezvoused over Akkajaure and began their approach to destroy the German battleship Tirpitz.

John W. Rosa

From 1980 to 1983, he served an exchange tour with the Royal Air Force as a pilot in Hunter and Jaguar aircraft at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth, Scotland.

LMO

RAF Lossiemouth (IATA airport code), a Royal Air Force station near Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland

Morayshire Railway

The notion of constructing a railway from Elgin to Lossiemouth was first considered in 1841 by James Grant, an Elgin solicitor who owned, with his brother, the Glen Grant distillery at Rothes—Grant was later to become Provost of Elgin.

United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program

One British writer claimed that the early school was influenced by a group of a dozen flying instructors from the British Fleet Air Arm aboard HMS Ark Royal, who were graduates of the Royal Navy's intense Air Warfare Instructors School in Lossiemouth, Scotland.


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