Delivering world-class strategic airlift with the RAF's C-17 providing long-range, heavy lift transport.
Each One Tenacious
99 Squadron is based at RAF Brize Norton the home of the RAF's transport and air-to-air refueling capability. It is the first unit to convert to Wellington Bombers in WWII. Former aircraft include the DH.9 bomber and the Britannia. 99 Squadron supported the hurricane relief effort in Belize in 1961 and in the Caribbean in 2017.
1917 Formed at Yatesbury as a bomber Squadron.
1940 Flew during WWII as part of Bomber Command.
1945 Converted from bombers to become a Transport Command Squadron.
1956 Dropped Paratroops during the Suez Crisis.
1970 Moved to RAF Brize Norton.
2000 Reformed as sole UK operator of the C17 Globemaster III.
1918* Western Frontier
1918 Independant Force and Germany
1919-1920 Mahsud
1919-1920 Waziristan
1940-1941 German Ports
1940-1941 Baltic
1940 France and Low Countries
1940-1942* Fortress Europe
1940-1942* Ruhr
1940-1942* Berlin
1940 Biscay Ports
1942-1944 Arakan
1944-1945 Burma
1944 Manipur
1945 Eastern Waters
2003-2011 Iraq
2011 Libya
(Honours marked with an asterisk, may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard)
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