Endurance
Standing on a demi-terrestrial globe, a falcon close. The falcon, an Icelandic Falcon, commemorates the Squadron’s stay there and indicates the Squadron’s predatory instincts.
1918 – 120 Squadron stood up 1 January as a Royal Flying Corps unit at RAF Cramlington, Northumberland. It disbanded in October 1919
1941 – Also known as CXX Squadron, the unit began flying the Consolidated Liberator in the Battle of the Atlantic
1942 – Deployed detachments to Reykjavik, Iceland and the Middle East, before relocating to Iceland in 1943
1944 – Returned to Ireland, stationed at Ballykelly
1946 – Re-equipped with the Avro Lancaster
1951 – First squadron to operate the Avro Shackleton MPA
1970 – Began operating the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod jet MPA. Disbanded, still on the Nimrod, in 2010
2017 – Announced as the first Poseidon MRA1 squadron, receiving the UK's initial example in 2019
2020 – Flew the first UK-based Poseidon to Kinloss Barracks while upgrade work at RAF Lossiemouth was completed
Atlantic, 1941–1945*
Biscay, 1941–1944*
Arctic, 1942–1944*
Channel and North Sea, 1941–1944*
South Atlantic, 1982
Gulf, 1991
Iraq, 2003
Iraq 2003-2011
Honours marked with an asterisk* are those emblazoned on the Squadron Standard
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