27 Squadron Battle Honours

Aircraft: Chinook HC2
Motto: Quam celerrime ad astra - 'With all speed to the Stars'.
Badge: An elephant - approved by HM King Edward VIII in October 1936. The badge was based on an unofficial emblem first used in 1934 and commemorates the Squadron's first operational aircraft - the Martinsyde G100 'Elephant' - and the unit's long sojourn to India.

Battle Honours:

Western Front 1916-1918
Somme 1916
Arras,
Ypres 1917
Cambrai 1917
Somme 1918
Lys
Amiens
Hindenburg Line
Mahsud 1942
Waziristan 1920-1925
Mohmund 1927
North West Frontier 1930-1931
Mohmund 1933
North West Frontier 1935-1939
Malaya 1941-1942
Arakan 1942-1944
North Burma 1944
Burma 1944-1945
Gulf 1991