List of Royal Air Force stations
Semi-permanent operations
The RAF have a semi-permanent presence at several overseas locations. Active military operations in the Middle East are supported by Expeditionary Air Wings which have been established at foreign airfields in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

List of Royal Air Force stations

Section Title: Semi-permanent operations
Table Section Text: The RAF have a semi-permanent presence at several overseas locations. Active military operations in the Middle East are supported by Expeditionary Air Wings which have been established at foreign airfields in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

Name	Country	Units and purpose

RAF Akrotiri	Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia	Permanent Joint Operating Base acting as a strategic staging airfield to support British military operations in the Middle East. It is operated by the Cyprus Operations Support Unit (COSU).

Al Minhad Air Base	United Arab Emirates	No. 906 Expeditionary Air Wing was established in January 2013 to provide a Middle East air transport and refuelling hub.

Al Udeid Air Base	Qatar	No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group was established in April 2006 as the headquarters for all RAF assets in the Middle East and is responsible for UK air operations as part of Operation Kipon and Operation Shader.

RAF Ascension Island	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Permanent Joint Operating Base predominately operating as an air-bridge between RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands.

MCAS Beaufort	United States	No. 617 Squadron personnel are training on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, embedded within VMFAT-501 of the US Marine Corps.

RRH Byron Heights	Falkland Islands	Remote Radar Head located on West Falkland.

Creech Air Force Base	United States	No. 39 Squadron operate the MQ-9A Reaper.

Edwards Air Force Base	United States	No. 17(R) Squadron formed at Edwards in April 2013 to test and evaluate the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.

RAF Gibraltar	Gibraltar	Permanent Joint Operating Base acting as a strategic staging airfield. Also functions as Gibraltar International Airport which comprises a civilian passenger terminal operated by Government of Gibraltar.

RRH Mount Alice	Falkland Islands	Remote Radar Head located on West Falkland.

RRH Mount Kent	Falkland Islands	Remote Radar Head located on East Falkland.

RAF Mount Pleasant	Falkland Islands	Permanent Joint Operating Base opened in 1985 after the Falklands War. No.

RAF Troodos	Cyprus	Signals intelligence gathering and radar station located in the Troodos Mountains, outside the Sovereign Base Areas. Operated by golf section of the Joint Service Signal Unit (Cyprus).

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Royal Air Force Akrotiri or RAF Akrotiri is a Royal Air Force station.

final_sentence: Royal Air Force Akrotiri or RAF Akrotiri is a Royal Air Force station.