The flights returned to RAF Brize Norton in 2011 when it was announced that RAF Lyneham would close.
The Hercules transporter planes, which were the heart of RAF Lyneham, left last year for RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
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His body was flown into RAF Brize Norton, where the Union flag-draped coffin was carried from the plane, with full military honours.
Steve Blundell, of the Royal British Legion Riders Branch, said fewer people are turning out at Carterton - near RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.
Last year, the Hercules transporter planes were moved to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire along with many of the 4, 500 military and civilian personnel.
Cpl Tom Neathway, based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in a civilian role, was injured when a booby trap bomb detonated in 2008.
During Wednesday's service, the union jack was lowered before being taken to a memorial garden at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire where future repatriation flights will land.
The cash was flown out from RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, on Tuesday afternoon on one of the two weekly RAF flights that travel between the UK and Cyprus.
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The four-engine jet left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, but was grounded at the Evreux-Fauville airbase until Tuesday to allow the "minor technical fault" to be fixed.
The first of the two C17s left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday and was loaded with French armoured vehicles and other equipment at the Evreux airbase in Normandy overnight.
He went to RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, on 17 February 1940 and, at the end of the course, was commissioned and posted directly to 616 Squadron at Leconfield, in East Yorkshire, on 18 June.
But following what a DfID spokesman called "a day of intense activity searching for an alternative aircraft", a C17 military transport aeroplane was located which is expected to leave from RAF Brize Norton on Friday night.
Repatriations were switched from Brize Norton to RAF Lyneham in 2007, meaning public ceremonies were held at nearby Wootton Bassett.
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