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No. 55 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1916 at Castle Bromwich as a unit of the Royal Flying Corps. No. 55 Squadron was the last RAF Squadron to operationally fly the Handley Page Victor, in its Victor K.2 in-flight refuelling tanker role. It was subsequently a navigator training squadron based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. The squadron operated the Hawker Siddeley Dominie, a military version of the HS.125 business jet, until January 2011.

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  • No. 55 Squadron RAF
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  • No. 55 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1916 at Castle Bromwich as a unit of the Royal Flying Corps. No. 55 Squadron was the last RAF Squadron to operationally fly the Handley Page Victor, in its Victor K.2 in-flight refuelling tanker role. It was subsequently a navigator training squadron based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. The squadron operated the Hawker Siddeley Dominie, a military version of the HS.125 business jet, until January 2011.
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Garrison
Role
  • Training
identification symbol
  • A cubit arm, the arm grasping a spear
Dates
  • 1916-04-27(xsd:date)
  • --02-01
  • --04-01
  • --09-01
  • --11-01
  • --10-15
Unit Name
  • No. 55 Squadron RAF
battle honours
  • Salerno
  • Arras
  • *Denotes honours emblozoned on standard
  • Egypt and Libya 1940-1943*
  • El Alamein*
  • El Hamma*
  • Gothic Line*
  • Gulf 1991
  • Gustav Line
  • Independent Force and Germany 1918*
  • Iraq 1920
  • Iraq 1928-1929
  • Italy 1943-1945
  • Kurdistan 1922-1924
  • Kurdistan 1930-1931
  • North Africa 1943
  • Northern Kurdistan 1932
  • Sicily 1943
  • South Atlantic 1982
  • Western Front 1917–1918*
  • Ypres 1917*
Equipment
Motto
  • "Nil nos tremefacit"
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  • No. 55 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1916 at Castle Bromwich as a unit of the Royal Flying Corps. No. 55 Squadron was the last RAF Squadron to operationally fly the Handley Page Victor, in its Victor K.2 in-flight refuelling tanker role. It was subsequently a navigator training squadron based at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. The squadron operated the Hawker Siddeley Dominie, a military version of the HS.125 business jet, until January 2011.
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