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RAF Fairford 'terror plot' foiled after woman warned neighbours on What'sApp
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- Sep 28, 2026, 7:06 AM UTC
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Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Since 2019, the base has played host to a Lockheed U-2S Dragon Lady detachment from the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. It is the USAF's only European airfield for heavy bombers and routinely supports Bomber Task Force operations. Its most prominent use in recent decades has been as an airfield for United States Air Force B-52s during the first Gulf War in 1991, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the 2003 Iraq War, and the 2026 Iran war.
More on Wikipedia ↗Five men arrested near RAF Fairford may have planned a complex, coordinated VBIED attack on U.S. strategic bombers, a former intelligence official says.
Five men arrested on terrorism charges after explosives found near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire
The unidentified woman was heading home from a party just after 1 a.m. Sunday when she spotted a “large group of hooded and masked men” in three white vans acting suspiciously near RAF Fairford.…