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No. 24 Squadron (also known as No. XXIV Squadron) of the Royal Air Force is the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit (AM OCU). Based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, 24 Squadron is responsible for aircrew training on A400M Atlas and C-17 Globemaster .
Formed by merging No. 26 Conversion Flight RAF and No. 106 Conversion Flight RAF. Absorbed No. 15 Squadron Conversion Flight RAF and No. 24 Squadron Conversion Flight RAF. 1652 CU 1652 HCU Jan 42–Jun 45 Halifax I/II/III/V Spitfire Vb Hurricane IIC Spitfire Vb Hurricane IIC/IV: RAF Marston Moor RAF Bentwaters
As well as 66 Squadron, the type was deployed to 72 Squadron in 1961 and 26 Squadron in 1962, all at Odiham. 26 Squadron later transferred to RAF Khormaksar where it disbanded in November 1965. The helicopters were transferred by HMS Albion to Singapore to join 66 Squadron until that squadron was disbanded in 1969. 72 Squadron kept its ...
MAPS Air Museum, Canton; Motts Military Museum, Groveport; NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland; National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton; National Aviation Hall of Fame, Dayton; Ohio Air & Space Hall of Fame and Learning Center, Columbus – planned [78] Ohio History of Flight Museum, Columbus – closed; Tri-State Warbird ...
No. 16 Squadron RAF: April–September 1944 Supermarine Spitfire: XI and XI Moved out to Normandy, France No. 18 Squadron RFC: May–August 1915 Various Formed at Northolt then moved to Mousehold No. 23 Squadron RAF: December 1936 – May 1938 Hawker Demon: No. 24 Squadron RAF: January 1927 – February 1933 Variety of types
RAF Airfields of World War 2. UK: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-349-5. Holmes, M.R. (1994). RAF Beccles at War 1943–45. Beccles: R & R Print (Beccles) Ltd. Jefford, C.G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310 ...
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The airfield was built between 1940 and 1942 for No. 1 Group RAF, [1] its first residents were the No. 460 Squadron RAAF. [2]From 1959 to 1963, as part of Project Emily, the base was a launch site for three nuclear-armed PGM-17 Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles, operated by No. 240 Squadron RAF.