No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight was a specialist RAF fighter flight created on 21 September 1940 to patrol the Channel and provide early warning of the...

(1940) became No. 93 Squadron RAF – formed to trial aerial mines No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight RAF (1940–41) became No. 91 Squadron RAF No. 422 (Fighter...

Ultra, Dowding created a unit named No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight RAF. This unit (which later became No. 91 Squadron RAF), was equipped with Hurricanes and...

No. 405 Repair & Salvage Unit (November 1943 - January 1944) No. 410 Repair & Salvage Unit (January - April 1944) No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight RAF...

On 1 September 1957, 8 Flight AAC was formed as 8 Reconnaissance Flight with the transfer of No. 1908 AOP Flight based at RAF Idris in Libya to the newly...

Co-operation) Flight RAF (March 1940) No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight RAF (November 1940 - January 1941) 854 Naval Air Squadron 855 Naval Air Squadron No. 3201...

No. 148 Airfield (May 1944) became No. 148 (Night Fighter) Wing RAF (May - June 1944) No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight RAF No. 618 Gliding School RAF (January...

aircraft squadrons RAF Search and Rescue Force 202 Squadron – RAF Boulmer, RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Leconfield No. 1564 Flight RAF – RAF Mount Pleasant, Falkland...

America. No. 1417 (General Reconnaissance) Flight (1417 (GR) Flt) was first formed at RAF St. Athan, from No. 417 (General Reconnaissance) Flight, on 1 March...

PR.9 and T.4 from RAF Marham, Norfolk, as No. 39 (1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit) Squadron between July 1992 and July 2006. No. 39 Squadron was founded...

September 2014, No. 1 (F) Squadron relocated to RAF Lossiemouth, to operate alongside No. 6 and XV (R) squadrons, as well as "D" Flight, No. 202 Squadron...

Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...

Unit RAF No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight RAF No. 1493 (Fighter) Gunnery Flight RAF became No. 18 Armament Practice Camp RAF No. 2707 Squadron RAF Regiment...

W. Mapplebeck flew the squadron's first mission over France, a reconnaissance flight searching for German cavalry in the vicinity of Gembloux, Belgium...

Flight RAF, No. 512 (Special Duty) Flight RAF and No. 513 (Special Duty) Flight RAF for coastal reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrols, flying Short Type...

Typhoon FGR.4 at RAF Lossiemouth. It was previously equipped with the SEPECAT Jaguar GR.3 in the close air support and tactical reconnaissance roles, and was...

Reconnaissance) Flight No. 442 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight No. 442 (Fleet Spotter Reconnaissance) Flight No. 443 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight No....

up on what later became RAF Halton's Maitland Parade Square. During the exercise, No 3 Squadron flew a number of reconnaissance sorties and staged the...

Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) role from RAF Waddington. No. 14 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was formed...

as No. VIII Squadron) of the Royal Air Force last operated the Boeing E-3D Sentry AEW1 (AWACS) from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. As of 2020, the RAF AWACS...

(General Reconnaissance) Wing RAF No. 203 Training Depot Station RAF became No. 55 Training Depot Station RAF No. 470 (Fighter) Flight RAF No. 555 (Light...

Hurricanes. On one occasion his flight was attacked by Supermarine Spitfires. Drake volunteered for No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight RAF with Spitfires, flying...

No. 7 Squadron is a special operations support squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Boeing Chinook HC6 from RAF Odiham, Hampshire. No. 7 Squadron...

arrived on 11 December. On 24 December, the Squadron made its first reconnaissance flight over the Turkish lines in Sinai, also flying in support of troops...

UK". Flight Global. Retrieved 18 December 2013. "51 Squadron's War". Britain at War. Retrieved 29 June 2019. Moyes 1976, p. 78. "No. 51 Squadron RAF". Royal...

recently formed Royal Air Force (RAF) on 1 April 1924; 100 years ago (1924-04-01), and again took on a reconnaissance role which it continued throughout...

On 8 October 1940 Lawrence was posted to the newly formed No. 421 (Reconnaissance) Flight RAF, initially based at Gravesend, Kent, and subsequently at...

No. 18 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Boeing Chinook from RAF Odiham. Owing to its heritage as a bomber squadron, it is also known as No...

flew their first Phantom reconnaissance sortie on 8 January with XV485. The Phantom-equipped No. II (AC) Squadron relocated to RAF Laarbruch on 3 May 1971...

World War II, when No. 431 (General Reconnaissance) Flight RAF, briefly re-designated as No. 1431 Flight RAF. on Malta became No. 69 Squadron. It carried...