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eight. Teaching staff for the school were selected from the
Department of Education of New South Wales and Victoria. Later, 4 Residency Road was leased for an infants’ school and 10 Residency Road as a secondary school. The number of enrolments rose to 289 infants, 345 primary and 102 secondary students.
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Butterworth during the 1950s required the provision of schooling for their dependants. In October 1958, the Department of Air established a permanent school in Penang Island, leasing 8 Residency Road as a primary school for children up to year
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January 1962 the RAAF Club opened at 10 Tanjung Tokong in Penang to provide social and sporting facilitates for RAAF personnel and their families during their stay at Butterworth. At its peak it provided for over 800 families, as well as those of Australian government public servants stationed in
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Butterworth increased the Residency Road schools became crowded and inadequate, and work began to build a bigger school. On 30 March 1962 the RAAF School on Jalan Azyzeat Hillside Penang was completed and officially opened on 9 May 1962. The school consisted of
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Butterworth in 1988 led to the school's closure, with the high school closing at the end of 1987 and the primary and infants' schools in mid-1988, with the remaining students now attending the nearby international schools in Penang. The former RAAF School
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The centre originally operated as a hostel with a total of 72 rooms and later included the Penang Health Centre and the Penang
Housing Section. It also housed chaplains, the Public Health Section, RAAF police, Supervisor RAAF Centre and the transport office. A convenience store, barber and
462:(RAAF) respectively. Although the airfield is now a RMAF base, under the terms of the FPDA the RAAF are a co-tenant of the base, maintaining an operational presence in the region alongside the RMAF squadrons. The airfield and associated base facilities are colloquially referred to as
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September 1945. Following cessation of hostilities the RAF resumed control of the airfield and Japanese prisoners of war were put to work repairing the runways and making general improvements to the airfield. RAF air operations resumed in May 1946.
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on 18 May 1967, replacing 3 Squadron who returned to
Australia to themselves re-equip with the Mirage. 3 Squadron returned in February 1969 - replacing 77 Squadron - with both squadrons also alternating responsibility for the detachment at
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from 1950 these units played an active role against the communist insurgency by attacking suspected jungle hideouts of the communist guerrillas. During this time the airfield also hosted various units on rotation from
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Butterworth was reduced which led to the closure of the RAAF Club. A new and smaller club was later established for the families who lived permanently in Penang.
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Exercise Bersama Lima. Aircraft from overseas squadrons participating in the exercise often include:
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At its peak in the 1970s the base was home to almost 5,000 Australian personnel and their families, but as at 2007 this has dwindled down to a permanent staff of just 40 RAAF personnel and 126 from the
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In 1970, following Malaysian independence, control of the base passed from the RAAF to the RMAF, and ownership of the property was ceded to the Malaysian Government; the base was formally renamed to
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and was the RAAF's first permanent major air base outside of Australia in the post-WW2 era. The base was home to numerous Australian fighter and bomber squadrons stationed in Malaya during the
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bombers, the squadron flew missions immediately after arriving including formation bombing runs against Communist guerrilla targets, and remained at Butterworth until 1967 when it moved to
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In 2018 the Australia government announced a AUS$ 22 million upgrade of the base, to ensure Butterworth "remains fit for purpose well into the future." The Defence Industry Minister,
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three main buildings, an assembly hall and an attap hut for infants. In September 1965, a new attap hut was built for primary students. Enrolments peaked at around 1,100 in 1977.
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Although the base is under Malaysian control, under the terms of the FPDA command authority resides with the Commander Integrated Area Defence System (CIADS), an Australian
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Brawley, Sean; Radcliffe, Mathew (2017). "Losing the Blanket, Building a Fence: Australian Anxiety and the End of Military Colonialism in Malaysia".
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on 20 December 1941 and remained under the control of the (
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RMAF Butterworth is the base of F/A-18 Hornets of the RMAF.
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Royal Air Force stations of World War II in British Malaya
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Units of the Royal Australian Air Force. A Concise History
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as interim S-61A4 Nuri replacement). Formerly operated
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of RAF in 1965 during Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation.
1523:"Penang Stories - The Existence of the RAAF in Penang"
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1624:. Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra.
1391:"Australian Defence Force Facilities Rationalisation"
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Royal Malaysian Air Force Base Butterworth, Malaysia
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1749:The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
1732:. Sydney, New South Wales: NewSouth Publishing.
1059:Detachment Alpha (92WG Det A), with previously
1788:Crest badge and Information of RAF Butterworth
1600:"Australia to invest in RMAF Base Butterworth"
1086:Australian Defence Force Investigative Service
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1499:Seek and Strike: 75 Squadron RAAF 1942–2002.
1324:"RAF Station Butterworth Malaya (1939-1957)"
1658:"Exercise Bersama Lima 16 Officially Opens"
1468:Royal Air Force Historical Society (2000).
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1634:Alistair Munro (27 September 2019).
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1021:Other Malaysian Armed Forces' Units
1701:Kiatisak Chua (11 November 2013).
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1620:RAAF Historical Section (1995).
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1443:"Research Note no. 26 2002-03"
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1968:Australia–Malaysia relations
1660:. Royal Australian Air Force
1602:. Royal Australian Air Force
1573:Wroe, David (25 June 2018).
1479:. The Royal Air Force Museum
1362:. The Royal Air Force Museum
1292:. Royal Australian Air Force
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1329:. Air Force Association NSW
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1006:No. 15 Squadron RMAF, with
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18:Airport in Penang, Malaysia
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1728:Radcliffe, Mathew (2017).
1419:Opalyn Mok (23 May 2015).
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858:As of October 2008, the
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509:Imperial Japanese forces
1810:Aviation Safety Network
1638:. Aberdeen Journals Ltd
1525:. Penang Global Tourism
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674:RAAF Butterworth badge.
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1322:Hugh Crowther (2014).
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899:RAAF School
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845:RAAF Darwin
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608:Avro Vulcan
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577:RAF Kuantan
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317:Coordinates
268:Butterworth
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156:Coordinates
113:Butterworth
1937:Categories
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1042:RAAF units
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208:Direction
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215:Surface
121:Malaysia
109:Location
99:Operator
84:Military
1890:Kuching
1885:Kuantan
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478:History
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