Its fuselage resembles that of a Chinook helicopter, although it also has features of a truck or tank ( as it features caterpillar tracks and a bumper sticker that reads " My Other Space Ship is a Red Dwarf "), and its cockpit can hold a maximum of four people.

Other ports on the French Atlantic coast harboured smaller squadrons.

Other deployments of 27th TFW aircraft and squadrons ( 481st, 522d, 524th ) were to Hahn AB, Germany ; Chambley-Bussieres AB, France ; Incirlik AB, Turkey ; Dhahran AB, Saudi Arabia ; Misawa AB, Japan ; Kunsan AB, South Korea ; Elmendorf AFB, Alaska ; and Udon RTAFB, Thailand.

Other squadrons flew the elderly but effective Douglas Dauntless and, later, the modern Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber.

Other vehicles were provided for individual squadrons and in 1939 Hotchkiss H35 and H39 light tanks were received by the 1er RCA.

Other New Zealand squadrons within the RAF included 485, which flew Supermarine Spitfires throughout the war, 486, ( Hawker Hurricanes, Hawker Typhoons and Hawker Tempests ), 487, ( Lockheed Venturas and De Havilland Mosquitoes ), 488, ( Brewster Buffaloes, Hawker Hurricanes, Bristol Beaufighters and De Havilland Mosquitoes ), 489, ( Bristol Blenheims, Bristol Beauforts, Handley Page Hampdens, Bristol Beaufighters, and De Havilland Mosquitoes ), and 490, ( Consolidated Catalinas and Short Sunderlands ).

Other squadrons flew the elderly but effective Douglas Dauntless and later the big, modern Grumman Avenger torpedo-bomber.

Other aircraft in his small fleet included Standard J-1s for shots of entire squadrons, some of which were blown up in explosions, and Waterman – Boeing C biplanes for German aircraft destroyed in crashes.

Other changes in the final stages of the war was the formation of “ Special Attack Units ” and " Air-shaking Units ", which were short-lived units with their own names ( often taken from Japanese mythology or history ) and markings, but located within existing squadrons.

Other squadrons at Stapleford were No. 242 Squadron and the RAF's oldest, No. 3 Squadron and, in 1941, a new Air Sea Rescue squadron was formed at Stapleford-No.

* 18 / 27 ( Engineering ) Squadron-Ground crew element of 18 and 27 Squadron, maintaining and repairing the 28 Chinook HC. 2 / 2A and 8 HC. 3 aircraft the flying squadrons operate