What is RAF Seletar Singapore?

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   RAF Seletar Singapore was a Royal Air Force station in Singapore between 1928 and 1971.
   Plans for establishing an airfield, flying boat and naval base in Singapore were first agreed by the RAF in 1921. In 1923, two sites in the northern region of the island were approved. The first planes to arrive at the base were four Supermarine Southampton seaplanes on February 28, 1928.
   RAF Seletar served as a civil airport from 1930 before the opening of Singapore's first civil airport at Kallang on June 12, 1937 (to the late 1940s).
   The air base was briefly host to Amy Johnson during May 1930 on her UK - Australia flight in her Gipsy Moth named 'Jason'.

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