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No 111 Squadron RAF

No 111 Squadron RAF


No 111 Squadron Royal Air Force    King's Crown badge

 Imported Military Blazer badge of excellent quality. Precise details in the manufacture. See image for details. POST FREE.

No. 111 (Fighter) Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Panavia Tornado F3 from RAF Leuchars, Scotland.
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No. 111 Squadron was formed at Deir el-Balah, Palestine on August 1 1917 as the first dedicated fighter squadron in the region. Its mission was to restrict enemy reconnaissance flights and challenge the German fighter presence over Suez. 'Treble One' was reformed in Egypt after the War as No. 14 Squadron.

On October 1 1923 111 Squadron reformed. The squadron operated a large variey of aircraft until 1938 when it became the first Hurricane squadron. 111 Sqn played a role in the Battle of Britain, pioneering dangerous head-on attacks against the Luftwaffe bomber streams. Claims included 47 aircraft shot down for 18 Hurricanes lost. The squadron replaced its Hurricanes with Spitfires in April 1942. In November the Squadron again relocated to RAF Gibraltar for support of Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. In a similar role it moved to Malta in June 1943 to support the invasion of Sicily. No 111 moved through Italy with the advancing Allied ground forces and remained there until the end of the war, after which it moved to Austria. The squadron disbanded in May 1947. 269 aircraft were claimed shot down, making the squadron one of the top RAF scorers for the war.

The squadron was not reactivated until 1953 when it received Meteor F8s at RAF North Weald. The Meteors were soon replaced with Hunters, with which the Squadron was to achieve international acclaim with their ‘Black Arrows’ aerobatic display team. The Squadron received the all-weather Lightning fighter in 1962 which it operated for ten years from RAF Wattisham. In 1974 the squadron re-equipped with the Phantom at RAF Coningsby, before moving north to Leuchars on November 3 1975.

The squadron gained its current role in 1990 when it began to re-equip with the Tornado.

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