THE SQUADRON

XXIV Squadron is based at RAF Brize Norton. Aircraft operated have included the Tiger Moth, the Dakota I and IV and the Hastings. XXIV Squadron trains the aircrew and engineers of the Air Mobility Fleet.

Prepared for all things

BASED AT

History

1915   Formed at Hounslow as a DH.2 scout unit.

1945   Began short-range operations on Dakotas.

1945   Supported personnel movement during the Nuremberg Trials.

2013   Became the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit for the Hercules, Atlas and C-17.

 

BATTLE HONOURS

1916 - 1918*   Western Front

1916*   Somme

1918   Somme

1918*   Amiens

1918*   Hindenburg Line

1939 - 1940*   France and Low Countries

1942*   Malta

1942 - 1943*   North Africa

1943 - 1944   Italy

1944 - 1945*   Burma

1991   Gulf

2003 - 2011*   Iraq

*Honours marked with an asterisk, may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard

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