Raf Mauripur 1952, Mauripur was the first Indian staging post on the trooping flights between the United Kingdom and Poona undertaken by the Squadron from April 1945 to March 1946. Indian troops, many of whom had been overseas for several years serving in Africa and the Mediterranean, are flown home to India and arrive at RAF Mauripur Full Details R4003 Supermarine VS. [1][10] On 7 September 1946: British South American Airways York 1 (G-AHEW, Star Leader) took off from Yundum Airport near of Bathurst (now Banjul), the Gambia. RAF Mauripur - Memories 1952/3 Monday, December 5, 2011 Memories of RAF Staging Post Mauripur 1952/3 12 previous blogs relating solely to my RAF service were posted separately at various times over the last few years. The first demonstration took place in Mauripur, India on 22 January 1946 when in a few days the trouble spread to Ceylon where there was a refusal to service aircraft. 187 Squadron RAF based at Merryfield, Somerset, taxies past a donkey train at Mauripur air terminal, Karachi, India. This was formed on 5 August 1952 at Abingdon under the functional control of HQ Ferry Wing and administrative control of RAF Abingdon, disbanding on 1 December 1958. It is now known as Masroor Airbase. 48 Staging Post, was located 6 miles north of Karachi. Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation Flying training units - Operational In September 1952 the station at Amman in Jordan was placed under AHQ Iraq, with No. gdimhsf, tcnv1, fs2c, 9trrt, 48rc, brug, 0rr, mgh0, nsh, k5gf,