View of main entrance to RAF Seletar, Singapore, 1939

RAF Seletar in Singapore opened in 1928. The motto of the station was, 'We Watch All Around.'

Seletar was an important station and a key part of Britain's strategy in the region for maintaining its Empire and influence. Amy Johnson landed at Seletar in May 1930 on her UK – Australia flight in her Gipsy Moth. Amelia Earhart also landed there in June 1937 on her world flight attempt in an Lockheed 10 Electra. As the threat of war with Japan increased throughout the late 1930s and into the 1940s, the RAF looked to build up its forces in the Far East. Seletar was one station built up, and housed four RAF units; 205 Squadron flying Catalina Flying Boats, and Nos. 36 and 100 Squadrons flying Vickers Vildebeest torpedo bombers. These flying squadrons were serviced by 151 Maintenance Unit RAF. After the defeat of Japan in 1945, and the British re-occupation of Singapore, the RAF returned to Seletar and maintained a presence there until the base was handed to the independent Singapore in 1971.