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6 Regiment Army Air Corps is the sole Army Reserve regiment of the British Army Air Corps (AAC). The regiment consists of four Squadrons based around the south of the UK. 6 Regiment provides soldiers trained to assist Joint Aviation Command on exercise and operations both in the UK and worldwide. The regiment provides support to support and ...
Constituted in the Army Air Corps on 1 April 1928, at Bolling Field, District of Columbia, as Air Corps Detachment, Bolling Field, and assigned to the Office of Chief of the Air Corps; re-designated 1 March 1935, as the 14th Bombardment Squadron; Consolidated on 8 June 1935, with the 14th Aero Squadron; Inactivated on 1 September 1936, at ...
The strength of the Army Air Corps is about 2,000 regular personnel, of which 500 are officers. However, the AAC draws an additional 2,600 personnel from the Royal Logistic Corps, the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the Adjutant General's Corps. [29] Therefore, total related Army Air Corps personnel is around 4,600. [30]
90th Ferrying Squadron: 10 April 1943 – 31 Mar 1944 [2] [note 4] 307th Ferrying Squadron: 18 June 1943 – 31 May 1944 [2] 311th Training Squadron: 14 May 2009 – present [21] 314th Training Squadron: 14 May 2009 – present [20] 384th Base Headquarters & Air Base Squadron: 11 July 1942 – 31 March 1944; 34th Sub Depot: c. 1 January – 31 ...
Regiment Formed at Formed on Location Notes 1 Regiment: RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) [2]2 (Training) Regiment: Army Aviation Centre, Middle Wallop Flying Station [3]3 Regiment: Wattisham Flying Station
The 1st Aviation Brigade Combat Team is an aviation formation of the British Army. [3] Most of its units are from the Army Air Corps (AAC). It was stood up on 1 April 2020 by combining the Wattisham Flying Station Headquarters (WFS HQ), formerly the Attack Helicopter Force (AHF) at Wattisham and the Aviation Reconnaissance Force at the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton.
No. 654 Squadron AAC (654 Sqn) is a squadron of the British Army's Army Air Corps (AAC) that is currently the Headquarters Squadron for 4 Regt AAC. It was formerly No. 654 Squadron RAF , a unit of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War .
On 1 April 2019, 651 Squadron and its aircraft, the Britten-Norman Defender and Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander, were transferred to the Royal Air Force as part of ISTAR Force in No. 1 Group based at RAF Waddington. [20] [21] [22] 651 Squadron continued to operate the aircraft until they were retired from service on 30 June 2021.