RAF Valley

RAF Valley
RAF Valley
Llu Awyr Brenhinol Y Fali
Near Holyhead, Anglesey in Wales
	A RAF Hawk T.1 flying over RAF Valley.
	In Adversis Perfugium; (Latin for 'Refuge in Adversity')
	RAF Valley Shown within Anglesey RAF Valley RAF Valley (the United Kingdom)
Coordinates	53°14′53″N 004°32′07″W / 53.24806°N 4.53528°W
Type	Training station
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	No. 2 Group; No. 22 Group (Training)
Website	www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-valley/
Site history
Built	1941
In use	1941 – present
Garrison information
Current; commander	No. 2 Group RAF - Group Captain Gez Currie; No. 22 Group - Group Captain Matt Hoare
Occupants	No. 4 Squadron; No. 25 Squadron; No. 72 Squadron; No. 202 Squadron; HQ RAF Mountain Rescue Service; RAF Valley Mountain Rescue Team;
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: VLY, ICAO: EGOV, WMO: 03302
Elevation	11 metres (36 ft) AMSL
Runways
13/31	2,290 metres (7,513 ft) Asphalt
01/19	1,639 metres (5,377 ft) Asphalt
	DAFIF

Royal Air Force Valley or more simply RAF Valley (Welsh: Llu Awyr Brenhinol Y Fali) (IATA: VLY, ICAO: EGOV) is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, and which is also used as Anglesey Airport. It provides both basic and advanced fast-jet training using the Beechcraft Texan T.1 and BAE Systems Hawk T.2 and provides mountain and maritime training for aircrew using the Airbus Jupiter HT.1 helicopter.

^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 106. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
^ "Royal Air Force". Royal Air Force.
^ "Airport information for EGOV". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
^ Airport information for EGOV at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).