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1 (F) Squadron

Part of the Northern Quick Reaction Alert securing the skies in the RAF's mission to defend the UK's airspace.

First in all things

A winged numeral '1' - approved July 1936 by King Edward VIII as the authorised version of a badge which had originated during World War I featuring a wreathed roundel from which sprouted a pair of Royal Flying Corps wings and on which the figure '1' was superimposed.

About

  • Based at RAF Lossiemouth, one of two Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) stations in the UK
  • The World's oldest flying squadron in service 
  • Former aircraft have included the Bristol Scout, Hurricane I, Spitfire IX and the Harrier GR5
  • 1 (F) Squadron introduced the Typhoon's Paveway IV capability to the front-line

History

1912 - Founder squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, the RAF's predecessor.

1940 - Took part in the Battle of Britain.

1969 - World's first Harrier 'jump-jet' squadron.

2012 - Stood up as the RAF's fourth Typhoon squadron.

2019 - NATO Air Policing in Iceland

Based at

RAF Lossiemouth

Battle honours

Western Front 1915-1918*

Ypres 1915*

Neuve Chappelle

Loos

Somme 1916*

Arras

Ypres 1917

Lys

Amiens

Somme 1918

Hindenburg Line

Independent Force and Germany 1918*

Kurdistan 1922-1925

Iraq 1923-1925

France and Low Countries 1939-1940*

Battle of Britain 1940*

Channel and North Sea 1941-1945

Home Defence 1940-1945

Fortress Europe 1941-1944*

Arnhem

Normandy 1944

France and Germany 1944-1945*

Biscay 1944-1945

Rhine

South Atlantic 1982*

Kosovo

Iraq 2003*

(Honours marked with an asterisk, may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard).

Flying

Typhoon FGR4

Contact

Please contact the home station Media Communications team for more information or to contact the Squadron

Media enquiries details for RAF Lossiemouth