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
