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 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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| - 1916-04-27(xsd:date)
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battle honours
| - Salerno
- Arras
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- 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*
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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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