About
XXIV Squadron is based at RAF Brize Norton. Aircraft operated have included the Tiger Moth, the Dakota I and IV and the Hastings. XXIV Squadron trains the aircrew and engineers of the Air Mobility Fleet.
Prepared for all things
History
1915 Formed at Hounslow as a DH.2 scout unit.
1945 Began short-range operations on Dakotas.
1945 Supported personnel movement during the Nuremberg Trials.
2013 Became the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit for the Hercules, Atlas and C-17.
Based at
Battle honours
1916-1918* Western Front
1916* Somme
1918 Somme
1918* Amiens
1918* Hindenburg Line
1939-1940* France and Low Countries
1942* Malta
1942-1943* North Africa
1943-1944 Italy
1944-1945* Burma
1991 Gulf
2003-2011* Iraq
(Honours marked with an asterisk, may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard)
Contact
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