"Ready to move"
4624 Squadron is based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. 4624 Squadron personnel accept, prepare and load cargo and passengers for worldwide travel on RAF air transport, coalition and charter aircraft. The Squadron works both on main bases and in mobile teams, wherever they are tasked around the world. Reservists work alongside Regular RAF personnel, routinely handling passengers and freight at airfields throughout the world.
1982 Formed at RAF Brize Norton
1991 Deployed to Iraq
2002 - 2014 Operation Herrick, Afghanistan
2003 Operation Telic, Iraq
2011 Operation Ellamy, Libya
2012 Awarded the Freedom of Oxfordshire by Oxford City and County councils.
2012 Support to London Olympic Games
2015 Operation Shader, Middle East Operations
2017 Operation Ruman, Caribbean Disaster Relief
2018 Operation Newcombe, UN Mission, Mali
2020-2021 Operation Rescript, COVID Pandemic
2021 Operation Pitting, extraction from Kabul, Afghanistan
2022 Operation London Bridge, funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II
2023 Operation Polar Bear, evacuation from Sudan
2023 Operation Golden Orb, coronation of HM King Charles III
4624 Squadron, RAF, Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxfordshire OX18 3LX
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