We’ve just finished a programme of work to upgrade the runway and associated airfield lighting at RAF Odiham in Hampshire. Why does a helicopter station need a runway? Royal Air Force Odiham is a front-line helicopter base and home of …
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that DIO has a pretty varied range of responsibilities. Even many DIO staff don’t realise, though, that we run a power station. It’s at RAF Fylingdales in the North …
Construction has begun on the first set of projects to prepare the airbase in Suffolk for the arrival of two new squadrons of US F35s in 2021.
DIO has worked together with the RAF, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) and Natural England on a pilot project to rescue 60 curlew eggs from RAF airfields in East Anglia.
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Hi, I’m Squadron Leader Sarah Brewin. I joined the Personnel Support branch in 2006, and my career has taken me all over the world, including the Middle East, Ascension Island, Northern Scotland and North Wales, working mainly in infrastructure and …
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It’s been a while since my last blog on the progress of work we’re undertaking at RAF Marham to prepare it to be the Main Operating Base of the Royal Navy and RAF’s F-35 Lightning fleet, so this seems a …
Hi, I’m Lieutenant Colonel Ian Jenkins and DIO’s on-site project manager at RAF Marham overseeing the DIO portion of the infrastructure uplift required to support the F-35B aircraft arrival at the Station in 2018. Having spent 18 years in the …
Surely one aircraft hangar is much like the next? Well, not quite, especially when it’s an MRO, or Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facility. My name is Denis Williams. I am a DIO project manager and I’d like to tell you …
2016 has been another busy year at DIO, with a number of big projects and programmes progressing or completed. Let’s take a quick look back… We completed the structure of a new hangar at RAF Brize Norton to house the …
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Hi, I’m Rob Dawson, the DIO’s Principal Project Manager for Lightning. Since our last update there has been some significant developments on the site at RAF Marham in Norfolk which are helping us prepare for the arrival and operation of …