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Oakhanger<\/strong><\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Roundel Sable charged with a Decrescent Argent a Petasus Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The station\u2019s prime function is to transmit and to receive data passed through space via earth satellites represented by the decrescent and to communicate by radio waves. The roundel depicted black, represents the dark continuum of space through which the radio waves have to pass. The Petasus, the winged helmet of Mercury, symbolises the carriage of those messages past the earth\u2019s boundary.<\/p>\n Date of Issue:<\/strong> July 1974<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Ultra tellurem dico<\/em> \u2013 I speak beyond the earth<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Transferred from Army Department on 20 December 1967 Closed as an RAF Station on 30 June 2003, although an RAF presence was maintained until 20 December 2003 when it passed to civilian control.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just wood and dedicated to all who served at RAF Station Oakhanger<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oakhanger Blazon: In front of a Roundel Sable charged with a Decrescent Argent a Petasus Or Link: The station\u2019s prime function is to transmit and to receive data passed through space via earth satellites represented by the decrescent and to communicate by radio waves. The roundel depicted black, represents the dark continuum of space through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9257,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions\/9257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}