The White Falcon
31st Jan 2008, 06:32
No 120 Squadron based at RAF Kinloss are to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of their formation at a reunion weekend over 13-15 June 2008 at RAF Kinloss.:D
Serving Squadron members wish to invite all past members to attend what promises to be an excellent series of events. There has already been a great deal of interest in the Reunion, so it should provide a good opportunity to meet old friends and hopefully make some new ones. The programme for the weekend is as flexible as we can make it, allowing people the chance to mix planned activity with more informal meetings with colleagues and acquaintances.
For further details on the weekend and to express your interest please contact [email protected] (http:///) as soon as possible to ensure a place.:)
No. 120 Squadron of the Royal Air Force 0perates Nimrod MR2, based at RAF Kinloss, Moray, Scotland.
120 Squadron was formed in January 1918, as a day bomber squadron equipped with De Havilland DH.9. The First World War, ended before it became operational, so 120 Squadron spent 1918 and 1919 flying communication and mail flights in Western Europe until it was disbanded late in 1919.
Reformed in Northern Ireland in 1941 at RAF Nutts Corner, the unit equipped with the Liberator, flying against the U-Boat threat in the North Atlantic. The Squadron was very successful in this role, sinking 14 U-Boats outright, with shares in three more and eight damaged by the end of the war and its disbandment in 1945. This was the highest kill total in Coastal Command, achieved whilst flying from Northern Ireland, Iceland, and in support of Operation Overlord - the Allied invasion of France in 1944.
It reformed in 1946, by renumbering 160 Squadron at RAF Leuchars and equipped with Avro Lancasters. A detachment moved to Palestine in November 1947 where it carried out searches for illegal immigrant ships until February 1948, when it returned to Britain.
The squadron re-equipped with Avro Shackletons in 1951, and continued operating them in the maritime patrol role until re-equipping with Hawker-Siddeley Nimrods in 1971, gaining the updated Nimrod MR2 in 1981. It flew operationally in the Falklands War in 1982 and the Gulf War in 1991.
120 Squadron has provided a continual presence in the Middle East since late 2001. In that time, employment of the aircraft and crews has evolved to take on an additional range of non-traditional tasks, including Overland Surveillance and ISTAR operations over IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN in support of U.K and coalition forces.
Serving Squadron members wish to invite all past members to attend what promises to be an excellent series of events. There has already been a great deal of interest in the Reunion, so it should provide a good opportunity to meet old friends and hopefully make some new ones. The programme for the weekend is as flexible as we can make it, allowing people the chance to mix planned activity with more informal meetings with colleagues and acquaintances.
For further details on the weekend and to express your interest please contact [email protected] (http:///) as soon as possible to ensure a place.:)
No. 120 Squadron of the Royal Air Force 0perates Nimrod MR2, based at RAF Kinloss, Moray, Scotland.
120 Squadron was formed in January 1918, as a day bomber squadron equipped with De Havilland DH.9. The First World War, ended before it became operational, so 120 Squadron spent 1918 and 1919 flying communication and mail flights in Western Europe until it was disbanded late in 1919.
Reformed in Northern Ireland in 1941 at RAF Nutts Corner, the unit equipped with the Liberator, flying against the U-Boat threat in the North Atlantic. The Squadron was very successful in this role, sinking 14 U-Boats outright, with shares in three more and eight damaged by the end of the war and its disbandment in 1945. This was the highest kill total in Coastal Command, achieved whilst flying from Northern Ireland, Iceland, and in support of Operation Overlord - the Allied invasion of France in 1944.
It reformed in 1946, by renumbering 160 Squadron at RAF Leuchars and equipped with Avro Lancasters. A detachment moved to Palestine in November 1947 where it carried out searches for illegal immigrant ships until February 1948, when it returned to Britain.
The squadron re-equipped with Avro Shackletons in 1951, and continued operating them in the maritime patrol role until re-equipping with Hawker-Siddeley Nimrods in 1971, gaining the updated Nimrod MR2 in 1981. It flew operationally in the Falklands War in 1982 and the Gulf War in 1991.
120 Squadron has provided a continual presence in the Middle East since late 2001. In that time, employment of the aircraft and crews has evolved to take on an additional range of non-traditional tasks, including Overland Surveillance and ISTAR operations over IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN in support of U.K and coalition forces.