13, No. 4, 1987, pp. 489 – 516

16, No. 4 ( Jul., 1982 ), pp. 489 – 510

No. 489, ( Bristol Blenheims, Bristol Beauforts, Handley Page Hampdens, Bristol Beaufighters, and De Havilland Mosquitoes ).

25, No. 4 ( Oct., 1973 ), pp. 472 – 489 in JSTOR

56, No. 4 ( December, 1974 ), pp. 489 – 504

No. 489 was formed at RAF Leuchars with Bristol Beaufort, the squadron had some time becoming operational.

Journal, 37, No 4, 1985, pp 488 – 489 ( in Russian )

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

Only one PAF combatant squadron, No. 14 Squadron Tail Choppers, was active in East Pakistan.

The helicopters of No. 1564 Flight ( formerly No. 78 Squadron ) provide air transport missions.

The governor also traditionally serves as Honorary and Regimental Colonel in the Royal New South Wales Regiment and as Honorary Air Commodore of No. 22 ( City of Sydney ) Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

Gun camera film shows tracer ammunition from a Supermarine Spitfire Mark I of No. 609 Squadron RAF, flown by Flight Lieutenant J H G McArthur, hitting a Heinkel He 111 on its starboard quarter.

* 1943 – World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

He was in time for the bombing of Germany, serving on the Handley Page Halifax with No. 76 Squadron RAF, initially at RAF Breighton and then at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor.

** No. 7 Air Superiority Squadron – Dassault Mirage 2000

** No. 11 Close Support Squadron – Dassault / Dornier Alpha Jet /

** No. 6 Close Support Squadron – Eurocopter SA342

** No. 8 Anti-Surface Vessel Squadron – Westland Sea King Commando Mk 3

** No. 9 Multi-Role Squadron – Westland Sea King Commando Mk 2

A long-established training centre and airbase is at Wadi Sayyidna, where No. 2 Fighter-Attack Squadron SuAF operated J-7s for a period.

The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured, and was in fact sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

She was hit by depth charges, dropped from a Short Sunderland Mk III flying boat, EK577, callsign " D for Dog ", belonging to No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

The Valiant entered service in 1955, the Vulcan in 1956 and the Victor in April 1958, with the first Valiant squadron, No. 138 Squadron RAF forming at RAF Gaydon in 1955, and the first Vulcan squadron, No. 83, at RAF Waddington in May 1957.

The first operational Victor squadron was No. 10 Squadron RAF The Valiant arrived in service first, equipped with nuclear weapons supplied by the U. S. under Project E that supplemented the British Blue Danube and later Red Beard.

" No formal Purchase, -- no tedious negotiations ,... A firman insistently issued to Sir F. Maitland authorizing him to take & retain possession is all that is necessary, & the Squadron under his Command is quite competent to do both ,... until an adequate naval and military force ... could be sent out from the mother Country.

* February 14 – Mirosław Ferić, Polish pilot of the No. 303 Squadron in Northolt ( b. 1915 )

The Möhne Reservoir | Möhne Dam breached following Operation Chastise, carried out by the No. 617 Squadron RAF | " Dambusters " of the Royal Air Force | RAF.

He was disappointed when his first operational posting was No. 135 Squadron RAF, a Hawker Hurricane unit, as he considered the type greatly inferior to Spitfires.

As the Hurricanes were assembled, the pilots were formed into a composite operational squadron, No. 232 Squadron RAF.

By chance, one week later, Sgt Matt O ' Mara of No. 453 Squadron RAAF also crash landed on Bintan, and arranged for them to be collected.

No trace of the aircraft or the 32 people onboard was ever found.

The No. 4 slot pilot often flies the No. 7 aircraft in Friday's " practice " shows.

No reference was made to whether prisoners were on board the aircraft at the time.

No trace of Cooper, or any of the equipment presumed to have left the aircraft with him, was found.

No parts are left at the airport after conversion from aircraft to ground vehicle, as the main wing and tail retract into the vehicle body.

* June 27 – 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “ No. 9 ”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.

No new variable-sweep wing aircraft have been built since the Tu-160.

72rd Wing, 313th Wing, and 314th Wing: Order No. 39, aircraft 229.

Lockheed EC-130H-LM Hercules " Compass Call " aircraft, AF Serial No. 73-1581 of the 41st Electronic Combat Squadron, July 1982

One of the new 214th Reconnaissance Group's General Atomics MQ-1B Predator UAV aircraft ( AF Serial No. 04-0555 )

No major commercial airlines fly into this airport ; it is used by private, chartered, and small commercial aircraft.

* Royal New Zealand Air Force purchased three ex-United Airlines aircraft in 1981, with two operated by No. 40 Squadron RNZAF and the third placed into storage and later broken up.

Langley Langley Aerodrome ( aircraft ) | Aerodrome No. 6 at Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh

Waddon Aerodrome opened in 1918, adjoining National Aircraft Factory No. 1, to serve aircraft test flights.

474th TFW Wing Commander's aircraft, North American F-100D-75-NA Super Sabre, AF Serial No. 56-3176

No 120 M1 was ever fired at an enemy aircraft.

By allowing her to fly his No. 9 airship she most likely became the first woman to pilot a powered aircraft.

From 6 April 1942 until the beginning of 1943 No 15 Pilots Advanced Flying Unit was established here to train recently qualified pilots to convert to twin-engine aeroplanes using the Airspeed Oxford aircraft.

and opened No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School at Sywell on 10 June 1935, training pilots with a fleet of 20 de Havilland Tiger Moths, and in 1937 the RAF Volunteer Reserve School was set up at Sywell with a further 16 training aircraft.

In late 1989, Stoddart purchased both BAC 1-11 aircraft ( and three Falcon 20 business jets and a large spares package for both types ) from the Royal Australian Air Force, Canberra based No 34 SQN, the VIP Squadron, intending to sell the BAC 1-11 to a VIP operator or charter service in the UK / Africa.

However, part of the RAF's fleet of ageing Avro Lincolns had been mothballed at Hemswell prior to being broken up and several of these static aircraft appeared in background shots during filming, doubling for additional No 617 Squadron Lancasters.

The five M. 5K / MG production prototypes, with Fokker factory serial numbers 191 through 194, and s / n 198, received the IdFlieg military serial numbers E. 1 / 15 through E. 5 / 15, followed Parschau's A. 16 / 15 aircraft into military trials very shortly thereafter, with Leutnant Parschau himself receiving E. 1 / 15 as the replacement for his then worn-out No. 216 aircraft, which was returned to the Fokker factory for further trials with the lMG 08 " Spandau " air-cooled machine gun.

So little remained of the original aircraft that it was given the new designation of Aerodrome No. 6.