About
CXX Squadron is 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. It was RAF Coastal Command’s highest-scoring anti-submarine warfare squadron in World War II and became the first Avro Shackleton operator. CXX Squadron flew the Nimrod from 1970.