Part of the Northern Quick Reaction Alert securing the skies in the RAF's mission to defend the UK's airspace.
The eyes of the Army
6 Squadron are based at RAF Lossiemouth and are one of two Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) stations in the UK. They have completed over 50 years of continuous overseas service. Aircraft flown by the Squadron have included the Demon, Gauntlet, Canberra and Jaguar. 6 Squadron took part in the air action over Libya as part of Operation ELLAMY.
1914 Formed at Farnborough.
1947 The last RAF Hurricane squadron.
1969 Returned to the UK for the first time since 1919.
2015 Conducted NATO air policing in the Baltic.
1914-1918* Western Front
1914-1918* Neuve Chappelle
1915* Ypres
1915* Loos
1916* Somme
1917 Ypres
1917 Amiens
1917 Hindenburg Line*
1919-1920 Iraq
1922-1924 Kurdistan
1936-1939 Palestine
1940-1943* Egypt and Libya
1940-1943* El Alamein
1940-1943* El Hamma
1944-1945* Italy
1944-1945 South-East Europe
1991 Gulf
1995 Bosnia
(Honours marked with an asterisk, are emblazoned on the Squadron Standard)
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