The station is home to Air Transport, Air-to-Air refuelling and Military Parachuting, with aircraft operating from the station including the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, Airbus A400M Atlas and Airbus Voyager which replaced the now-decommissioned Vickers VC10 in September 2013 and the Lockheed TriStar in March 2014.
It is close to the village of Brize Norton, and the towns of Carterton and Witney. Royal Air Force Brize Norton or RAF Brize Norton ( IATA: BZZ, ICAO: EGVN) in Oxfordshire, about 75 mi (121 km) west north-west of London, is the largest station of the Royal Air Force. Source: RAF Brize Norton Defence Aerodrome Manual uk /our-organisation /stations /raf-brize-norton /
