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Awarded:<\/strong> April 1961<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of Wings conjoined in base Or a Lion couchant guardant Gules<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> This unit, being located in Cyprus, chose as its badge a Lion \u2013 an emblem long associated with the Island since the Venetian period \u2013 and also to symbolise that the unit is watchful and alert. The wings have been included in reference to the flying role of the Station<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: In quadrivio paratus<\/em> \u2013 They shall not come near us.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Opened 1 February 1944; Closed 1 February 1975<\/p>\n ponsored by Aviation History Research Centre (AHRC) and dedicated to all those who served at RAF Nicosia, especially during the Suez Crisis <\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: April 1961 Blazon: In front of Wings conjoined in base Or a Lion couchant guardant Gules Link: This unit, being located in Cyprus, chose as its badge a Lion \u2013 an emblem long associated with the Island since the Venetian period \u2013 and also to symbolise that the unit is watchful and alert. The […]<\/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\/7277"}],"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=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7307,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions\/7307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}