No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing (United Kingdom)

903 Expeditionary Air Wing
Active	1 December 1944 – 31 October 1945 2003 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Expeditionary Air Wing
Garrison/HQ	RAF Akrotiri
Website	Official website

No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing is an Expeditionary Air Wing of the Royal Air Force. It is currently based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and is tasked with conducting operations against ISIL in Iraq & Syria

It was activated during 2003 as part of a modernisation package to make the RAF more deployable on an expeditionary basis. It was stationed at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan controlling RAF operations at the air base there between Summer 2009 and November 2014. It used to report to No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group.

The wing was formed during the Second World War.

The wing was re-commissioned into service during 2003 and sent to Contingency Operating Base Basra as part of Operation Telic.

The wing stayed at Basra until May 2009.

During mid-2009 the wing was moved to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan as part of Operation Herrick. It consisted of:

It also supported the following:

Camp Bastion was handed over to the ANSF as the United Kingdom withdraws from Afghanistan and 903 EAW was stood down in November 2014.

In December 2015 the Wing reformed at RAF Akrotiri to replace No 140 EAW as part of Operation Shader. It consists of:

Aircraft have been using RAF Akrotiri as their home base whilst carrying out these operations.

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