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Awarded:<\/strong> June 1944<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Maltese Cross Argent Gules a Phoenix Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The Maltese Cross is in reference to the location. The phoenix symbolises the establishment of the station on the site of a ‘shadow’ \u00a0aerodrome.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Ad repugnandum renatus<\/em> \u2013 Reborn to hit back<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> RAF Station Krendi opened 10 November 1942; it is not certain when the air station ceased being an active airfield (there is no record at AHB\/RAF of a formal closure date). However, operational flying ceased by September 1943 and in December 1945 it became home to HQ No 284 Wing \u00a0which left on 1 March 1946. After this it appears to have become home to the RAF Malta Meteorological Office until all the British military bases were closed on 31 March 1979.<\/p>\n Sponsored by the Aviation History Research Centre (AHRC) and dedicated to all who served at Krendi<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: June 1944 Blazon: In front of a Maltese Cross Argent Gules a Phoenix Or Link: The Maltese Cross is in reference to the location. The phoenix symbolises the establishment of the station on the site of a ‘shadow’ \u00a0aerodrome. Motto: Latin: Ad repugnandum renatus \u2013 Reborn to hit back History: RAF Station Krendi opened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}