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Updated: 20 Aug 04
Formed: 11 May 1919
Disbanded: 21 Jan 1920
Reformed: Oct 1920
Disbanded: 1 May 1945
Reformed: 16 May 1945 from renumbered 200 Sqn
Disbanded: 15 Nov 1945
Reformed: Sep 1946
Disbanded: Dec 1971
Reformed: ?
Disbanded: still an active RAF Squadron
Squadron was based at:
Sart (France) :: - 11 May 1919
RAF Duxford :: 11 May 1919 - 21 Jan 1920
Egypt :: Oct 1920 -
Aden :: 1927 -
Khormaksar :: 1 May 1942 - 15 May 1945
RAF Lossiemouth :: <1971 - ??
RAF Waddington :: ??, current base
RAF Scampton :: ??
Aircraft operated:
BE2c :: Jan 1915 -
Armstrong-Whitworth FK8 :: - Jan 1920
F2B :: 1919
DH9A :: Oct 1920 - 1927
Fairey MkIIIF :: 1927
Blenheim :: 1939 -
Liberator :: May 1945 - Nov 1945
Mosquito :: Sep 1946 - 1947
Tempest :: 1947 - 1949
Brigand :: 1949 - 1953
Vampire :: 1953 - 1956
Venom :: 1956 - <1960
Hunter :: <1960 - Dec 1971
Shackleton AEW2 :: - 1991
E-3D SENTRY :: 1991 - present
8 Sqn RFC formed at Brooklands on 1 Jan 1915 and moved to St Omer in April. It was equipped with BE2C as an army co-operation unit, specialised in spotting anti-tank guns. After helping occupy defeated Germany the Sqn disbanded in Jan 1920. In early post-Great War years 8 Sqn operated in cadre strength at RAF Duxford.
8 Sqn reformed in Egypt in Oct 1920 as a day-bomber unit. During the 1920s 8 Sqn was one of the sqns responsible for the air-policing of Iraq. In 1927 the Sqn moved to Aden and re-equipped with Fairey IIIF.
By 1939 8 Sqn had received the Blenheim and was involved in the fighting Italy in Somaliland. It then specialised in maritime reconnaissance but with little success, disbanding on 1 May 1945. 15 days later the Liberator-equipped 200 Sqn at Jessore in India was renumbered at 8 Sqn. This lasted for a short period of supply-dropping flights in Malaya, disbanded again in November 1945.
Reformed again in Sep 1946 in Aden on Mosquito these were superceded by Tempest in 1947, Brigand in 1949 and then Vampire in 1953 respectively. By 1956 these had been replaced with the Venom.
In 1960, 8 Sqn on Hunters moved to Bahrain to protect Kuwait against Iraqi aggression.
After disbanding again in Dec 1971, 8 Sqn was reformed with the Shackletons at RAF Kinloss on airborne early warning duties, moving to RAF Lossiemouth in 1973. The Shackleton AEW survived until 1991 when 8 Sqn re-equipped with E3-D SENTRY and moved to RAF Waddington.
8 Sqn history on RAF Website
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