RAF Kinloss

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RAF Kinloss is a Royal Air Force station near Kinloss on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. It is home to all of the Nimrod MR2 fleet in the Royal Air Force.

Numbers 120 and 201 squadrons, plus 42 squadron (the Operational Conversion Unit), equipped with the Nimrod MR2 are based at Kinloss. The station is also home to No. 325 Expeditionary Air Wing.

The UK Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre is another major unit at Kinloss. The ARCC is responsible for coordinating all rescue efforts in the UK and out into the Atlantic, including the receipt of signals from rescue beacons through to the dispatch and control of Nimrod aircraft and Search and Rescue helicopters.

No 325 Expeditionary Air Wing (EAW) was formed at the station on 1st April 2006. The wing encompasses all the flying squadron based at Kinloss. The station commander is dual-hatted as the commander of the wing.

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