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Bloodhound SAM at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London, formerly of No.85 Squadron Following the end of war in Europe, 85 Squadron remained active as a night-fighter unit, and flying operations continued into the jet age with new aircraft types such as the NF 11 and NF 14 Gloster Meteor , Gloster Javelin and English Electric Canberra .
The Royal Air Force (RAF) maintains a number of independent flights; some on a permanent basis, others on an ad-hoc basis as required. Historically, some flights were alphabetically named . For a full list, see the list of Royal Air Force aircraft independent flights .
No. 85 Group was a Group of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. It was responsible for airfield construction and the air defence of the beachhead bases during the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 ( Operation Overlord ) and the subsequent campaign.
No. 85 Group RAF: 1943–1946 1948–1950: No. 85 Group was formed on 17 December 1943 within Second Tactical Air Force (2TAF) from wings of the RAF Airfield Construction Service. It was renamed No. 85 (Base) Group on 14 February 1944, and reduced to the status of 85 Wing on 1 July 1946. It reformed on 1 December 1948, and disbanded on 1 July 1950.
No. 85 Expeditionary Logistics Wing RAF is a wing of the Royal Air Force Support Force based at RAF Wittering, England.. It is made up of several ground transport and logistics handling squadrons, whose role is to establish air and sea ports of disembarkation and the associated supply chain all the way to the front line squadrons.
John Hall, DFC & Bar, QC (25 December 1921 – 5 January 2004) was a British barrister and flying ace who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He is credited with having shot down eight aircraft. Born in Oxford, Hall was studying in France at the time of the outbreak of the Second World War. Returning to the United ...
RAF Hunsdon on a target dossier of the German Luftwaffe, 1941 487 Squadron RNZAF. RAF Hunsdon became operational in 1941. The first unit to arrive at the Airfield (in May 1941) was No. 85 Squadron RAF, flying Boston Havocs. In June No. 1451 Flight RAF was formed. This experimental unit flew Bostons with searchlights fitted in the nose of the ...
On 27 June 1945 85 Squadron moved to RAF Castle Camps; [4] and shortly after, on 16 August 1945, 157 Squadron disbanded, [5] and the airfield was passed over to RAF Maintenance Command. [3] Swannington was the headquarters for No. 274 Maintenance Unit RAF (MU) [3] for RAF Little Snoring, RAF North Creake and RAF Oulton.