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Royal Air Force station Buchan or more simply RAF Buchan is a Royal Air Force station near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. It has been there since 1952, although the domestic site in Boddam is now closed. Until 2005 it was also home of one of the two Control and Reporting Centres for the United Kingdom in the form of an impressive two storey underground bunker (R3). As such it was responsible for coordinating all aspects of air defence as part of The United Kingdom Air Surveillance and Control System (UK ASACS).

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rdf:type	Military Structure
rdfs:label	RAF Buchan
rdfs:comment	Royal Air Force station Buchan or more simply RAF Buchan is a Royal Air Force station near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. It has been there since 1952, although the domestic site in Boddam is now closed. Until 2005 it was also home of one of the two Control and Reporting Centres for the United Kingdom in the form of an impressive two storey underground bunker (R3). As such it was responsible for coordinating all aspects of air defence as part of The United Kingdom Air Surveillance and Control System (UK ASACS).
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foaf:homepage	http://www.raf.mod.uk/
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coord region	GB-ABD
map caption	Location in Aberdeenshire
Name	RAF Buchan
Type	Royal Air Force station
Ownership	Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
used	1952(xsd:integer)
native name	90(xsd:integer)
Latitude	57(xsd:double)
map type	Scotland Aberdeenshire
Longitude	-1(xsd:double)
Location	Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
abstract	Royal Air Force station Buchan or more simply RAF Buchan is a Royal Air Force station near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. It has been there since 1952, although the domestic site in Boddam is now closed. Until 2005 it was also home of one of the two Control and Reporting Centres for the United Kingdom in the form of an impressive two storey underground bunker (R3). As such it was responsible for coordinating all aspects of air defence as part of The United Kingdom Air Surveillance and Control System (UK ASACS). The Type 92 radar, now operated remotely, is housed in a pressurised Radome. Until 1994 the base also operated a Type 80 radar and a Sperry TPS-34 amongst others.

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