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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

attack and reconnaissance role until being disbanded on 28 March 2014. The Dambusters reformed on 18 April 2018, and was equipped at RAF Marham in June...

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...

detachment to Khormaskar, Aden, to fly reconnaissance flights against Ottoman forces. No. 31 Squadron helped form No. 114 Squadron at Lahore when it provided...

and Reconnaissance Operational Evaluation Unit (AIR C2ISR OEU) for the RAF. No. 56 Squadron was formed on 8 June 1916 at Gosport, from members of No. 28...

(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...

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...

1916 from crews of No. 19 Squadron Royal Flying Corps at RAF Filton, No. 42 Squadron spent the First World War flying reconnaissance sorties. Using Royal...

on 8 September 2018. During the First World War, No. 25 Squadron operated as a fighter-reconnaissance unit and later as a bomber squadron. Pilots from...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operational Conversion Unit, and is now the Advanced Air ISTAR Academy, responsible for training all RAF crews assigned...