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=== Closure of RAF station === The decision to close RAF Lyneham was made in 2009, with all functions and aircraft relocated to [[RAF Brize Norton]].<ref>{{cite news |title=RAF Lyneham to close by 2012 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5290892/RAF-Lyneham-to-close-by-2012.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911190717/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5290892/RAF-Lyneham-to-close-by-2012.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 September 2012 |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=7 May 2009 |access-date=26 May 2011 |location=London}}</ref> With the transfer of military units and personnel to Brize Norton complete, around 1,000 members of military and civilian staff remained on site, gradually reducing in numbers until RAF Lyneham closed entirely,<ref name="Mooney">{{cite news|url=http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/9118007.Mixed_emotions_as_Hercules_leave_RAF_Lyneham/|title=Mixed emotions as Hercules leave RAF Lyneham|last=Mooney|first=Tom|date=1 July 2011|newspaper=Gazette & Herald|access-date=15 April 2012}}</ref> on 31 December 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8955000/8955988.stm|title=RAF Lyneham Closure Plan|last=Heath|first=Ashley|date=31 August 2010|access-date=5 March 2011|publisher=BBC}}</ref> Military flying operations from RAF Lyneham ceased on 30 September 2011, at which point the station's air traffic control unit closed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/InformationNotice201169.pdf|title=Disestablishment of RAF Lyneham Control Zone|date=13 July 2011|publisher=Civil Aviation Authority|access-date=16 April 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604232503/http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/InformationNotice201169.pdf|archive-date=4 June 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> A stone memorial commemorating the RAF's use of the station for over 70 years was unveiled on 1 June 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-18292839|title=Memorial to be unveiled to mark RAF leaving Lyneham|date=1 June 2012|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=26 June 2012}}</ref> All remaining RAF Lyneham personnel left the station by December 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-18639707|title=Lyneham pre-school to close over Ministry of Defence move|date=30 June 2012|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=30 June 2012}}</ref>
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