About: RAF Calshot

An Entity of Type: Royal Air Force station, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Royal Air Force Calshot or more simply RAF Calshot was initially a seaplane and flying boat station, and latterly a Royal Air Force marine craft maintenance and training unit. It was located at the end of Calshot Spit in Southampton Water, Hampshire, England, at grid reference SU487024. It was the main seaplane/flying boat development and training unit in the UK, with the landing area sheltered by the mainland, to the west, north and east, and the Isle of Wight, a few miles away to the south on the other side of the Solent, where seaplanes and flying boats were mass-produced by Saunders-Roe. It closed in 1961. Much of the former base has been preserved, with most of the site now being occupied by the RNLI.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Royal Air Force Calshot or more simply RAF Calshot was initially a seaplane and flying boat station, and latterly a Royal Air Force marine craft maintenance and training unit. It was located at the end of Calshot Spit in Southampton Water, Hampshire, England, at grid reference SU487024. It was the main seaplane/flying boat development and training unit in the UK, with the landing area sheltered by the mainland, to the west, north and east, and the Isle of Wight, a few miles away to the south on the other side of the Solent, where seaplanes and flying boats were mass-produced by Saunders-Roe. It closed in 1961. Much of the former base has been preserved, with most of the site now being occupied by the RNLI. (en)
dbo:location
dbo:owner
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:type
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 10725558 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 16797 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1107933751 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:battles
dbp:caption
  • Aerial view, late 1920s. (en)
dbp:ensign
  • Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg (en)
dbp:ensignSize
  • 90 (xsd:integer)
dbp:location
  • Located near Calshot in Hampshire (en)
dbp:mapCaption
  • Shown within Hampshire (en)
dbp:mapType
  • Hampshire (en)
dbp:name
  • RAF Calshot (en)
dbp:ownership
dbp:type
  • Royal Air Force station (en)
  • Seaplane and Flying boat station (en)
dbp:used
  • April 1918-April 1961 (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
georss:point
  • 50.8194 -1.3083
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Royal Air Force Calshot or more simply RAF Calshot was initially a seaplane and flying boat station, and latterly a Royal Air Force marine craft maintenance and training unit. It was located at the end of Calshot Spit in Southampton Water, Hampshire, England, at grid reference SU487024. It was the main seaplane/flying boat development and training unit in the UK, with the landing area sheltered by the mainland, to the west, north and east, and the Isle of Wight, a few miles away to the south on the other side of the Solent, where seaplanes and flying boats were mass-produced by Saunders-Roe. It closed in 1961. Much of the former base has been preserved, with most of the site now being occupied by the RNLI. (en)
rdfs:label
  • RAF Calshot (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(-1.3083000183105 50.819400787354)
geo:lat
  • 50.819401 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • -1.308300 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • RAF Calshot (en)
is dbo:garrison of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:commands of
is dbp:garrison of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License