No. 267 Squadron RAF

No. 267 Squadron RAF
No. 267 Squadron RAF
	First World War Second World War Western Desert campaign; Mediterranean Theatre; Burma campaign;

No. 267 Squadron RAF was a unit of the Royal Air Force that served during World War I & World War II. The squadron has been formed a total of four times.

History

The squadron was formed at RAF Kalafrana, Malta on 27 September 1918 from Nos. 360, 361, 362 and 363 Flights as an anti-submarine unit flying patrols in the Mediterranean Sea until the end of hostilities and remained at Malta until being renumbered No. 481 Flight on 1 August 1923.

On 19 August 1940, the squadron was reformed from

Communication Unit, Heliopolis RAF as a transport squadron for operational duties in Egypt. In August 1942, operations extended to transport throughout the Mediterranean area and also undertook supply-dropping missions to resistance fighters in Italy and the Balkans, including Operation Wildhorn, the operation to bring back parts of a recovered V-2 rocket from Poland. The squadron moved to Italy in November 1943 and later to India in February 1945 during the Fourteenth Army's final offensive during the Burma campaign

. The squadron disbanded on 30 June 1946, although continued operations until 21 July.

Reformed on 15 February 1954 at RAF Kuala Lumpur, Malaya as a transport support and communications squadron. It was renumbered No. 209 Squadron on 1 November 1958. The squadron was again reformed as a transport squadron on 1 November 1962 at RAF Benson with No. 38 Group until being disbanded on 30 June 1970.

Aircraft operated

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Date	Type	Notes
1918-1921	Short 184
1918-1921	Felixstowe F.3
1918-1923	Felixstowe F.2A
1920-1923	Fairey IIID
1940-1942	Various	Variety of different aircraft for communications duties
1942-1943	Lockheed Hudson IV
1942-1943	Lockheed Hudson VI
1943-1946	Douglas Dakota
1954-1958	Douglas Dakota
1954-1958	Auster AOP.6
1954-1958	Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1
1954-1958	Percival Pembroke C.1
1954-1956	North American Harvard T.2B
1962-1970	Hawker Siddeley Argosy C.1

References

Citations

^ Jefford 1988, p. 81

Bibliography

Jefford, C G. RAF Squadron, first edition 1988, Airlife Publishing, UK,
ISBN 1 85310 053 6
.

External links

[1] Jefford 1988, p. 81

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