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- RAF_Luqa abstract "Royal Air Force Luqa was a flying station and location of RAF Mediterranean Command headquarters of the Royal Air Force on the island of Malta during World War II. Particularly during the Siege of Malta from 1941 to 1943, RAF Luqa was a very important base for British Commonwealth forces fighting against Italy and Germany for naval control of the Mediterranean and for ground control of North Africa. Air combat over and near Malta was some of the most ferocious of the war, and a series of airfields were built on the small, rocky island: at Luqa, Ta'Qali, and Hal Far, plus satellite fields at Safi, Qrendi and on Malta's second island of Gozo.After the war, Luqa remained an important RAF base, serving during the Suez Crisis of 1956, but also served as Malta's main civilian airport. Nowadays, the location has been developed into the main entry point of the modern, independent country of Malta, under the name Malta International Airport. It is sometimes still referred to as "Luqa Airport" or "Valletta Airport".The RAF left in 1979 following a British government decision not to renew the lease on the station from the Maltese. The payments demanded were several times the previous payments under the previous lease. It is also possible that the Avro Vulcan crash over the village of Żabbar led to the Maltese decision to effectively get the RAF to leave by raising the proposed lease payments to what was known to be a level unacceptable to the British.A website exists for anyone that served at any of the British bases in Malta. It is called RAF Luqa Remembered, although it has expanded to include more than Luqa, and the URL is http://raf-luqa.weebly.com".
- RAF_Luqa thumbnail Luqa_airfield_Malta_aerial_photo_1941.jpg?width=300.
- RAF_Luqa wikiPageExternalLink raf-luqa.weebly.com.
- RAF_Luqa wikiPageID "2864142".
- RAF_Luqa wikiPageRevisionID "542176290".
- RAF_Luqa auto "yes".
- RAF_Luqa date "December 2009".
- RAF_Luqa hasPhotoCollection RAF_Luqa.
- RAF_Luqa subject Category:Airports_in_Malta.
- RAF_Luqa subject Category:Malta_in_World_War_II.
- RAF_Luqa subject Category:Military_of_Malta.
- RAF_Luqa subject Category:Royal_Air_Force_stations_in_Europe.
- RAF_Luqa subject Category:Royal_Air_Force_stations_of_World_War_II_in_Europe.
- RAF_Luqa subject Category:World_War_II_sites_in_Malta.
- RAF_Luqa point "35.8575 14.4775".
- RAF_Luqa type Airfield102687992.
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- RAF_Luqa type RoyalAirForceStationsInEurope.
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- RAF_Luqa comment "Royal Air Force Luqa was a flying station and location of RAF Mediterranean Command headquarters of the Royal Air Force on the island of Malta during World War II. Particularly during the Siege of Malta from 1941 to 1943, RAF Luqa was a very important base for British Commonwealth forces fighting against Italy and Germany for naval control of the Mediterranean and for ground control of North Africa.".
- RAF_Luqa label "RAF Luqa".
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- RAF_Luqa lat "35.8575".
- RAF_Luqa long "14.4775".
- RAF_Luqa wasDerivedFrom RAF_Luqa?oldid=542176290.
- RAF_Luqa depiction Luqa_airfield_Malta_aerial_photo_1941.jpg.
- RAF_Luqa isPrimaryTopicOf RAF_Luqa.