Talk:RAF Northolt

RAF Northolt is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on November 24, 2012.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 24, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
April 5, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
May 30, 2011	Featured article candidate	Promoted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 3, 2012, and May 3, 2017.
Current status: Featured article

Aviation: Airports

	Aviation portal This article is within the scope of the Aviation WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.AviationWikipedia:WikiProject AviationTemplate:WikiProject Aviationaviation articles
	This article is supported by the airport project.

London Low‑importance

	London portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject London, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of London on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LondonWikipedia:WikiProject LondonTemplate:WikiProject LondonLondon-related articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

London Transport Low‑importance

	London transport portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject London Transport, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Transport in London on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.London TransportWikipedia:WikiProject London TransportTemplate:WikiProject London TransportLondon Transport articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Military history: Aviation / British / European / World War II

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

Associated task forces:
/
	Military aviation task force
	British military history task force
	European military history task force
	World War II task force

Spoken Wikipedia

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles that are spoken on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Spoken WikipediaWikipedia:WikiProject Spoken WikipediaTemplate:WikiProject Spoken WikipediaSpoken Wikipedia articles

Guild of Copy Editors

This article was copy edited by Philg88, a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, on April 20, 2011.Guild of Copy EditorsWikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsTemplate:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsGuild of Copy Editors articles

There is a request, submitted by Harrison49 (talk), for an audio version of this article to be created. For further information, see WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia.

The rationale behind the request is: "The last audio version of this article was created on 31 March 2006".

Comment[edit]

17.06.06 - Rougly 20 jets landed in Northolt Air Base, some surrounding a larger aircraft. Not important enough to go into article, + too little information. gamerunknown

FA Review[edit]

A comment on the first picture. According to What is a featured article? captions should be concise. Could we remove the names of the pilots to bring the caption down to an accetable length? On second thoughts the names could go into a reference or footnote. ► Philg88 ◄ ^talk 23:35, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the names of the pilots to a new Footnotes section, and moved the photograph into the Battle of Britain section. Harrison49 (talk) 13:38, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Spitfire with a Chipmunk Serial Nº?[edit]

The Spitfire 22 at the gate carried the serial number WP916, which seems to me to be actually a Chipmunk serial number. Can anyone confirm or deny? Paul Magnussen (talk) 16:49, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

PK624 did carry the serial WP916 during the 1960s but I believe it was repainted to the correct serial in 1963 when it was moved to Northolt. It moved on from Northolt in the late 60s for the Battle of Britain film. Not sure why it had the wrong serial but it may have been the only stencil they had at Uxbridge when it was re-painted. MilborneOne (talk) 19:45, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Units of measurement[edit]

In opening sentences, units are very inconsistent. Land measurements in UK are generally given in miles, not a mixture of nautical miles kilometres. Equally, sixteenths of compass points are unnecessary, as is the direction and distance from another, not apprecviably better known, town once one location is given. Being Bold. Kevin McE (talk) 09:11, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

commercial jets[edit]

We need to add the commercial jet use (run by city airport) in here somewhere. 87.83.31.234 (talk) 02:56, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a reference for that, Northolt has been used by private aircraft for a long time, is this something different? MilborneOne (talk) 14:57, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Recent court case, London VIP Airport, Forbes article, City Airport's page. 87.83.31.234 (talk) 23:51, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

From the operations manual it seems no scheduled or charter, maximum 29 PAX. 87.83.31.234 (talk) 00:34, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on RAF Northolt. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100330073756/http://www.bfpo.mod.uk/aboutbfpo.htm to http://www.bfpo.mod.uk/aboutbfpo.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 16:21, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on RAF Northolt. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120309035033/http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/battle/8405178.Battle_of_Britain_veteran_reunited_with_spitfire/ to http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/battle/8405178.Battle_of_Britain_veteran_reunited_with_spitfire/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 17:43, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on RAF Northolt. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 07:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on RAF Northolt. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 08:43, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed information about Westland Sea King helicopters in 2012[edit]

The following information has been disputed, and was removed with no replacement citation:

Westland Sea King helicopters of the Royal Navy were also deployed to the station.^[1]

Is there a citation that shows this information is incorrect, rather than reverting with original research in the edit summary? Sciencefish (talk) 08:22, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Several sources would appear to support the suggestion Sea King's were deployed to Northolt during the Olympics:

https://helihub.com/2012/07/16/854-sqn-bases-sea-kings-at-northolt-for-olympics/

https://www.mylondon.news/news/local-news/defence-secretary-visits-raf-northolt-5975822

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/typhoon-jets-arrive-at-raf-northolt-for-olympics-role

The Sea King ASaC7, the type quoted in articles, wasn't retired until 2018, see https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2018/september/26/180926-final-flight-sea-king Thx811 (talk) 18:42, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "RAF Typhoon jets arrive in London to test Olympic security". BBC News. 2 May 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2012.

[1] "RAF Typhoon jets arrive in London to test Olympic security". BBC News. 2 May 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2012.

[1]