Typhoon makes landing at Kinloss Barracks
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A TYPHOON jet has landed at Kinloss Barracks for the first time since the Moray base was handed over to the Army.
The landing, by a plane from 1(Fighter) Squadron, was part of an exercise to test response procedures of RAF personnel in the event of a Typhoon having to divert from RAF Lossiemouth.
Regular military flying operations ceased at Kinloss in 2011, but the airfield has remained a Relief Landing Ground (RLG) for aircraft since then.
Squadron Leader Rob Coffey is the executive officer with Operations Wing, which is responsible for ensuring all flying operations from RAF Lossiemouth are co-ordinated and managed safely. He was pleased with the actions of all of the personnel involved in the exercise.
He said: "As we had not had to use Kinloss for a real Typhoon diversion since its inception as a Relief Landing Ground, we planned this exercise in order to practice our procedures and aircraft recovery actions.
"The exercise was an opportunity for the fire section in particular to practice their actions.
"All of our procedures worked well and the exercise provided excellent training for the RAF personnel based at Kinloss as well as the Typhoon crews at RAF Lossiemouth."
