30-620: TGA may refer to: The IATA Airport Code for Tengah Air Base , Singapore Tandy Graphics Adapter for the Tandy 1000 computer system Tasman Global Access , a submarine cable linking Australia and New Zealand Tennessee Governor's Academy for Math and Science , United States Therapeutic Goods Administration , Australian regulatory body Thermogravimetric analysis , materials testing procedure Thioglycolic acid , organic compound Tooronga railway station , Melbourne Transient global amnesia ,
60-519: A F16 crashed shortly after take off, the pilot ejected with minor injuries. The Flying Squadrons based in Tengah Air Base are: The Flying Squadrons based in Tengah Air Base are: The Support Squadrons based in Tengah Air Base are: The RSAF regularly conducts Exercise Torrent which converts the neighboring Lim Chu Kang road into an alternative runway since its inception in April 1986. Its purpose
90-472: A few weeks before their arrival. He said it: . . . stood proud on a grassy slope to the south of the field, from the terrace you looked over the lush green grass, then a smooth-topped expanse of rubber plantation stretched away to misty blue hills . . . You could picture officers and guests out there on mess nights chatting under the Southern Cross . . . the strains of a waltz coming from the dance band in
120-518: A flight of Lockheed Hudsons from Britain to Singapore, which was already under attack by the time he and his aircrews arrived at Tengah. He noted that only eight "of us out of the twenty who set off" from Britain for Singapore survived the Far East campaign. Tengah had already been under air attack by the Japanese, but he said it was easy to imagine the once elegant, but now badly damaged, officers' mess just
150-457: A medical condition Transposition of the great arteries , a congenital heart defect Treasury General Account , a bank account held by the US government Truevision TGA or TARGA, graphics file format Tonga (IOC country code) TGA, one of three stop codons The Game Awards , annual awards ceremony for the video game industry The Gainsborough Academy , a school Topics referred to by
180-437: A surprise to Lieutenant General Arthur Percival , who "hardly expected the Japanese to have any very long-range aircraft." Rudely awakened in the small hours of the morning by the screams of air raid sirens and the roar of ack ack guns and in the clear moonlit sky around a formation of Japanese bombers. Bombs were dropped but none fell in our area. So the war in the Far East started – all day we heard news bulletins telling of
210-567: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tengah Air Base The Tengah Air Base ( IATA : TGA , ICAO : WSAT ) is a military airbase of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) located in the Western Water Catchment , in the western part of Singapore . The air base is the most important airfield of the RSAF as it houses
240-528: Is to demonstrate the RSAF capability of generating air power in the shortest time from public roads. The latest and seventh edition was held from the 10 to 13 November 2016. To accommodate the relocation of all RSAF assets and equipment from Paya Lebar Air Base, Tengah Air Base will be expanded by acquiring 50,000 graves in the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery and 80 neighbouring farms/agricultural businesses. Military training areas will be rationalised, such as
270-776: The Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) , led by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) deep in the jungles of Peninsular Malaysia . In 1952 45 Squadron was equipped with de Havilland Hornets and re-equipped with Venoms in 1955 at RAF Butterworth when it was amalgamated with 33 Squadron ] T.11's of 60 Squadron , joined by 14 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force . In 1958 they were joined by 45 Squadron and No. 75 Squadron RNZAF , both equipped with English Electric Canberra B.2. The RAAF retained their Lincolns, with 1 Squadron , until
300-733: The Japanese Army took control of the south, including the administrative hub and population centre of Singapore City, while the Japanese Navy took command of the north, which included the Royal Navy dockyard at Sembawang . During the Malayan Emergency , Tengah was used to house Avro Lincolns of the RAF and Royal Australian Air Force and Bristol Brigands of No. 84 Squadron RAF which performed bombing sorties against pro-independence forces led by
330-896: The Japanese bombers was denied. Air Chief Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham feared that the anti-aircraft batteries would fire on the friendly fighters, despite Vigors being an experienced night fighter in the Battle of Britain . He was supplemented by the belief that the Buffalo fighter was only suited for daylight fighting and could not be used at night. Paradoxically, there were 12 Bristol Blenheim Mark IF night fighters of No. 27 Squadron RAF stationed in Sungai Petani , Malaya, but were being used as ground-attack aircraft . The streets were still brightly lit despite air raid sirens going off at 0400, allowing pilot navigators to locate their targets without difficulty. Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Headquarters
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#1732856020074360-754: The Javelins of 64 Squadron. On 3 September 1964, an Indonesian Air Force C-130 Hercules crashed into the Straits of Malacca while trying to evade interception by a Javelin FAW.9 of No 60 Squadron. On 30 April 1968, the Gloster Javelins of No 60 Squadron flew their last RAF operational sorties from Tengah and the squadron was disbanded the same day. As a show of force to deter the Indonesian President Sukarno from launching an all-out war during this period,
390-933: The RAF also deployed a V bomber force detachment to Tengah in the form of Handley Page Victor B.1A bombers from 15 Squadron in August 1963, which was rotated with those dispersed to RAAF Butterworth in Malaysia. The detachment of Victor bombers was replaced in October 1964 by a detachment of Avro Vulcan B.2 bombers from 12 Squadron , these were subsequently pulled back to RAF Cottesmore in December that same year. In August 1965, 9 Squadron resumed RAF's Vulcan bomber detachment to Tengah, followed by 35 Squadron in December 1965, these were in turn replaced by 9 Squadron again in February 1966. After June 1966, 9 Squadron returned to Cottesmore following
420-686: The casualties were troops of the 2/2nd Gurkha Rifles, 11th Indian Infantry Division . The Japanese bombers all returned safely to Thu Dau Mot. Though the bombing caused only minor damage to the airfields, it stunned the British Far East Command . Despite intelligence reports of Japanese aircraft performance in the Second Sino-Japanese War , the command did not believe Japan's air forces were capable of striking Singapore from airfields more than 600 miles away in Indochina. The raid came as
450-574: The closure of Murai Urban Training Facility . A new runway will be built on the expanded portion of the base. First air raid on Singapore [REDACTED] United Kingdom [REDACTED] Japan The bombing of Singapore was an attack on 8 December 1941 by seventeen G3M Nell bombers of Mihoro Air Group ( Mihoro Kaigun Kōkūtai ), Imperial Japanese Navy , flying from Thu Dau Mot in southern Indochina . The attack began at around 0430, shortly after Japanese forces landed on Kota Bharu , Kelantan in northern Malaya . It
480-610: The conquering Japanese. Tengah was the first airfield to be captured when Japanese forces invaded Singapore . After the Japanese completed their capture of Singapore, Tengah came under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force while the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service took over the other two RAF stations of Sembawang Air Base and RAF Seletar as Singapore was split into north–south sphere of control. This effectively ensured that
510-670: The end of March 1971 and Tengah was handed over to the Singapore Air Defence Command (later the Republic of Singapore Air Force) by 1973, after the British Withdrawal following the defence cuts. Despite this, the airfield continued to host British and Commonwealth air forces and troops under the auspices of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) until 1976. The RAAF pulled out of Tengah in 1983. It
540-422: The end of the confrontation. According to British MoD documents declassified in 2000, up to 48 Red Beard tactical nuclear weapons were secretly stowed in a highly secured weapons storage facility at Tengah, between 1962 and 1970, for possible use by the V bomber force detachment and 45 Sqn Canberras for Britain's military commitment to South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) . The RAF station closed at
570-659: The end of the emergency. During the period of Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation , 20 Squadron with its Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft in addition to the Gloster Javelins of 60 Squadron and 64 Squadron , were based on the airfield to help upgrade the air defence of Singapore and Peninsula Malaysia against infrequent air incursions from the MiG-21s and P-51 Mustangs of the Indonesian Air Force . 74 Squadron Lightnings were deployed following Confrontation to replace
600-502: The impact of a much heavier raid. Only seventeen G3M bombers of Mihoro Air Group reached Singapore on schedule, unobstructed by bad weather. The Japanese formation was detected by a radar station in Mersing , Johor , Malaya , almost an hour before they reached Singapore. Three Brewster Buffalo fighters of No. 453 Squadron RAAF were on standby at RAF Sembawang . However, Flight Lieutenant Tim Vigors ' request to scramble and intercept
630-550: The majority of the RSAF's fixed-wing frontline squadrons, home to all of RSAF's Airborne early warning and control (AEWC) assets, most of the F-16C/D Fighting Falcons and many UAVs . The airfield goes by the motto of Always Vigilant , which is supported by its main motif, a black knight chess piece symbolising the aircraft's operational readiness in Tengah. The sword represents war's heraldic sword of destruction, while
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#1732856020074660-481: The night of 7 December 1941. However, bad weather conditions were encountered while over the South China Sea . Thick clouds offered poor visibility for the pilots, while rough winds caused most of the formations to become separated. After several attempts to regroup failed, Lieutenant Commander Niichi Nakanishi, Wing Commander of Genzan Air Group, ordered them to abort mission and return to base, thereby reducing
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720-405: The spacious lounge brilliantly lit and aswirl in colour. Now, a month later and into war, all that was gone forever. Many of the windows were now empty of glass, so the rain came misting through in the frequent tropical showers . . . There was no longer any door at all on the room allotted to Peter and me . . . Not long after their arrival, O'Brien and his Hudsons departed Singapore just ahead of
750-462: The state is depicted by the castle. Prior to Singapore's independence, it was a flying Royal Air Force station known as RAF Tengah . RAF Tengah was opened in 1939. Tengah airfield was the target of carpet bombing when 17 Japanese Navy bombers conducted the first air raid on Singapore , shortly after the Battle of Malaya began. In a 1990 memoir, former Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot Terence O'Brien described leading (in late December 1941)
780-486: The wide spread treachery of the Japs – Well! They've asked for it – !! – Diary and 'Line' book written by the pilots of No. 453 Squadron RAAF Singapore had respite from further air raids while the Japanese focussed their attacks on Allied positions in northern Malaya. The next raid occurred on the night of 16/17 December 1941. This was minor attack on RAF Tengah by two Japanese Ki-21s. The next serious raid on Singapore City
810-470: Was not even manned, and there was no blackout as police and power station officials could not find the employee who had the key to the switch (only two practice blackouts were conducted in September 1941 before the raid). When the bombers began their attack at 0430, Allied anti-aircraft guns immediately opened fire. The battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse also responded, but no aircraft
840-685: Was renamed RSAF Tengah in 1971 (then it became Tengah Air Base (TAB) ), when it was handed over to the Singapore Air Defence Command (SADC). Currently, the air base houses aircraft such as the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Fighting Falcons . RSAF50 parade took place on 1 September 2018 at TAB. The parade featured almost 500 personnel in a march-past, mobile column and a Salute-to-the-Nation flypast involving 20 aircraft. The new Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft made its maiden public appearance. The static display also showcased both retired and present aircraft. On 8 May 2024,
870-539: Was shot down. A formation of nine bombers flew over without releasing their bombs to draw the searchlights and anti-aircraft guns away from the other group. They were flying at 12,000 feet, while the second formation was at 4,000 feet. The 'Raiders Passed' signal was sent out at 0500. The bombers succeeded in bombing the airfields at Seletar and Tengah, damaging three Bristol Blenheim bombers of No. 34 Squadron RAF . A number of bombs also fell on Raffles Place . 61 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. Most of
900-506: Was the first knowledge the Singapore population had that war had broken out in the Far East . The attack on Singapore was assigned to 34 bombers of Genzan Air Group ( Genzan Kaigun Kōkūtai ) and 31 bombers of Mihoro Air Group. Their targets were RAF Tengah , RAF Seletar , Sembawang Naval Base and Keppel Harbour . Six squadrons from both air groups took off from southern Indochina on
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