| 28(AC) Squadron |
Squadron badge | | Information | | Role | Transport, Joint Personnel Recover (JPR) and search and rescue | | Aircraft Operated | Merlin HC.3 | | Home Station | RAF Benson | | Motto | Quicquid agas age - "Whatsoever you may do, do" | | History | | Date Founded | November 7 1915 | | Badge | In front of a demi-Pegasus, a fasces | | Notable Battle Honours | Italian Front and Adriatic 1917-1918, Piave, Vittoria Venito, Waziristan 1921-1925, North-West Frontier 1939, Burma 1942, Arakan 1943-1944, Manipur 1944, Burma 1944-1945. | No. 28 (Army Co-operation) Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Merlin HC.3 from RAF Benson. This image is Crown copyright protected. ...
Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea...
The RAF Merlin HC3 is a medium support helicopter of the Royal Air Force. ...
RAF Benson is a Royal Air Force station near Benson in Oxfordshire, England. ...
November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ...
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1915: Events January January 19 - First Zeppelin raid on the UK by the German Navy. ...
Pegasus on roof of Poznań Opera House In Greek mythology, Pegasus (Pegasos) was a winged horse that was the foal of Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and the Gorgon Medusa. ...
The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The AgustaWestland EH101 is a medium-lift helicopter originally developed as a joint venture between Westland Helicopters in the UK and Agusta in Italy for military applications but also marketed for civil use. ...
The RAF Merlin HC3 is a medium support helicopter of the Royal Air Force. ...
RAF Benson is a Royal Air Force station near Benson in Oxfordshire, England. ...
History
No. 28 (AC) Squadron was formed on November 7 1915. After World War I No. 28 moved to India as an Army co-operation squadron. During World War II it flew the Lysander and from December 1942 the Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber. By 1943 the Sqn was operating in Burma until 1945 when it started to re-equip with the Supermarine Spitfire. After WWII the squdaron operated as a fighter-reconnaissance unit as part of the Far East Air Force, moving to RAF Kai Tak, Hong Kong in 1949. Combatants Entente Powers Central Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties > 5 million military deaths > 3 million military deaths World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations and the War to End All Wars, was a...
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Lysander (d. ...
The Hawker Hurricane is a fighter design from the 1930s which was used extensively by the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. ...
Spitfire in action The Supermarine Spitfire was a single-seat fighter used by the RAF and many Allied countries in World War II. The Spitfires elliptical wings gave it a very distinctive look; their thin cross-section gave it speed; the brilliant design of Chief Designer R.J. Mitchell...
The RAF Far East Air Force was the command organisation that controlled all Royal Air Force assets in the east of Asia. ...
RAF Kai Tak was a Royal Air Force station in Hong Kong. ...
Other aircraft operated The Squadron operated the Westland Wessex from 1972. With this helicopter it was based at RAF Sek Kong from 1978 until 1996. The squadron returned to Kai Tai from then until the British withdrawal in June 1997 and was the last RAF squadron to leave the territory. A Royal Canadian Air Force deHavilland Vampire The de Havilland Vampire, or DH.100, was the second jet engined aircraft commissioned by the Royal Air Force during WW II, although it never saw combat. ...
The de Havilland DH.112 Venom was a post- war jet single-seat fighter-bomber of the Royal Air Force. ...
The Hawker Hunter was a British jet fighter aircraft of the 1950s. ...
The Westland Whirlwind helicopter was a British-built version of the U.S. Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw. ...
Museum exhibit Westland Wessex The Westland Wessex is a turbine-powered version of the Sikorsky S-58 Choctaw, developed under license by Westland Aircraft, initially for the Royal Navy, but later for the RAF. The Wessex was built at Westlands factory at Yeovil in Somerset. ...
The Shek Kong Airfield (22. ...
Current role The RAF ordered 22 Merlin HC.3s in March 1995, the first of which was received from AgustaWestland on March 7 2001. The squadron officially reformed on July 17 2001. AgustaWestland is a helicopter design and manufacturing company based in Italy and the United Kingdom. ...
March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). ...
The Squadrons first operational role was in support of SFOR at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. They deployed on the 1st April 2003, the day that they declared an initial operational capability. Pocket badge of the SFOR The Stabilisation Force (SFOR) was a NATO-led multinational force in Bosnia and Herzegovina which was tasked with upholding the Dayton Agreement. ...
Banja Luka (Cyrillic: Бања Лука) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is also the capital of the Republika Srpska entity, as well as a major center of the region known as Bosanska Krajina. ...
Deployed Merlins from 28(AC)Squadron, using the historic No. 1419 Flight RAF are currently on Operation Telic at Basrah Air Station, Iraq. No. ...
Operation Telic is the codename under which all British operations of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and after are being conducted. ...
Location of Basra Basra (also known as Başrah or Basara; historically sometimes called Busra, Busrah, and early on Bassorah; Arabic: البصرة, Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of about 1,377,000 in 2003. ...
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