Naval Air Squadron 898 Naval Air Squadron 1831 Naval Air Squadron Back to Royal Air Force control In February 1974 the Royal Air Force returned with D Flight of 22 Squadron taking up residence with their Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 search and rescue helicopters. In September of the same year No. 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF (later the Tactical Weapons Unit) joined D Flight having been forced to relocate after the closure of RAF Chivenor. The station was home to Hawker Hunter aircraft of the TWU, and the gate guardian at the base was initially a Supermarine Spitfire, this was replaced in the early 80s by Hawker Hunter FGA.9 (XE624). This airframe was subsequently sold to Steve Petch, a private collector. Between 1 September 1976 and July 1978 a detachment of 202 Squadron flying Westland Whirlwind HAR.10s used the airfield. By the late 1970s it operated BAe Hawk T.1A (234 and 79 Squadron). Closure of RAF station As part of the rationalisation of advanced and tactical weapons training, flying ceased at Brawdy on 31 August 1992. A small number of RAF personnel remained including No. 202 Squadron and their Westland Sea Kings, which eventually left in July 1994. Naval Facility Brawdy In 1974 Naval Facility Brawdy was established adjacent to Royal Air Force Station Brawdy as the terminus of new Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) arrays covering the eastern Atlantic. After commissioning on 5 April 1974 NAVFAC Brawdy became the first "super NAVFAC" with some four hundred U.S. and United Kingdom military and civilian personnel assigned. In 1985 a new type of fixed surveillance system, the Fixed Distributed System (FDS), test array was terminated at the facility. The facility was decommissioned 1 October 1995 after its arrays had been "remoted" and its equipment moved to the Joint Maritime Facility, St Mawgan, Cornwall. Cawdor Barracks Brawdy was transferred to the British Army in 1995 and became Cawdor Barracks, the army's main electronic warfare base. The name originated from the local Earls of Cawdor (who owned the Stackpole Estate). References Citations Bibliography External links Airliners.net Photo Gallery of Aircraft at RAF Brawdy Air Britain Photo Gallery of Aircraft at RAF Brawdy Ivor "Taff" Davies Photo Gallery of Aircraft at RAF Brawdy Jet Photos.net Photo Gallery of Aircraft at RAF Brawdy XE624.org - Home of the ex-RAF Brawdy Gate Guard Hunter FGA.9 United States Navy - NAVFAC Brawdy 1986 Phantom Aircrash Raf Brawdy RAF Brawdy,