Since April 2007 it has started to
become a regular sight over the village skies where
the gigantic C17 Air Transporter carries out a low-level
flypast
over the village bringing home brave soldiers,
airmen and sailors of the armed forces who have paid
the ultimate
price serving for their country.
Lyneham
has been chosen as the RAF Repatriation
Centre for twenty-four months while neighbouring Oxfordshire
airbase RAF Brize Norton undergoes an extensive
upgrade programme of the station to accommodate all
the RAF's air transport and air-to-air refuelling
fleet.
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