About
- Based at RAF Lossiemouth, 120 Squadron is the RAF’s first operator of the Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA)
- 120 Squadron began its long association with anti-submarine warfare and maritime patrol when it began operating the Liberator GR.Mk I from RAF Nutt’s Corner, County Antrim, in 1941
- 120 Squadron was RAF Coastal Command’s highest-scoring anti-submarine warfare squadron in World War II
- Became the first Avro Shackleton operator
- Flew the Nimrod from 1970