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More planes in our skies
From the Swindon Advertiser, first published Thursday 31st Mar 2005.
SWINDON'S skies are set to get busier later in the year with the arrival of aircraft from a base in Oxfordshire.
Tanker and transport jets from RAF Brize Norton will be moving to RAF Fairford and RAF Lyneham near Swindon for up to four months while urgent work is carried out on the Oxfordshire base's runway.
Twenty eight RAF transport and tanker aircraft will operate from Fairford and will including the Tristar and VC10 aircraft.
In addition, aircraft chartered by the MoD will also use Fairford.
Four C17 Globemaster aircraft from Brize Norton will operate from RAF Lyneham during the period.
Wg Cdr Mark Baker, senior operations officer at RAF Brize Norton has written to town and parish councillors explaining the reasons for the relocation of Brize Norton aircraft.
He acknowledged that the aircraft were noisy and that every effort would be made to minimise noise disturbance. However, because of the operational commitments to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans, he said it was inevitable that there would be some noise.
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