No. 111 Squadron RAF

No. 111 (Fighter) Squadron RAF

Active	1 August 1918
Role	Air Defence
Garrison/HQ	RAF Leuchars
Motto	"Adstantes" (Standing by [them])
Equipment	Panavia Tornado F3
Battle honours	Palestine 1917-1918, Megiddo, Home Defence 1940-1942, France and Low Countries 1940, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain 1940, Fortress Europe 1941-1942, Dieppe, North Africa 1942-1943, Sicily 1943, Italy 1943-1945, Salerno, Anzio and Nettuno, Gustav Line, France and Germany 1944. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1918: Events January January 25 - 2nd Lt Carl Mather is killed RAF Leuchars is the most northerly air defence station in the United Kingdom. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A battle honour is a military tradition practised in the Commonwealth countries of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
Insignia
Identification symbol	A cross potent quadrat charged with three seaxes in front of two swords in saltire.

No. 111 (Fighter) Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Panavia Tornado F3 from RAF Leuchars, Scotland. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout RAF Leuchars is the most northerly air defence station in the United Kingdom. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

1 History
2 Current role
3 Aircraft Operated
4 See also
5 References

History

No. 111 Squadron was formed at Deir el-Balah, Palestine on August 1 1917 as the first dedicated fighter squadron in the region. This article is about a Palestinian city for the nearby refugee camp see Deir el-Balah camp. Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Its mission was to restrict enemy reconnaissance flights and challenge the German fighter presence over Suez. Suez (السويس) is a Seaport town (population ca 497000 in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez, near the southern 'Treble One' was reformed in Egypt after the War as No. 14 Squadron. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. No 14 Squadron of the Royal Air Force currently operates the Panavia Tornado GR4 from RAF Lossiemouth

On October 1 1923 111 Squadron reformed. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1923: Events January Air Union is created by the Merger of The squadron operated a large variety of aircraft until 1938 when it became the first Hurricane squadron. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout 111 Sqn played a role in the Battle of Britain, pioneering dangerous head-on attacks against the Luftwaffe bomber streams. The Battle of Britain (German ''Luftschlacht um England'' is the name given to the sustained strategic effort by the German Luftwaffe during the summer and Claims included 47 aircraft shot down for 18 Hurricanes lost. The squadron replaced its Hurricanes with Spitfires in April 1942. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout In November the Squadron again relocated to RAF Gibraltar for support of Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. Royal Air Force Station Gibraltar, better known as RAF Gibraltar and formally as North Front, is a Royal Air Force station on Gibraltar. Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British - American invasion of French North Africa in World War II North Africa or Northern Africa is the Northernmost Region of the African Continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan In a similar role it moved to Malta in June 1943 to support the invasion of Sicily. Malta, officially the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta is a European Microstate, comprising an Archipelago of three islands Sicily ( Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is an autonomous region of Italy. No 111 moved through Italy with the advancing Allied ground forces and remained there until the end of the war, after which it moved to Austria. The squadron disbanded in May 1947. 269 aircraft were claimed shot down, making the squadron one of the top RAF scorers for the war.

The squadron was not reactivated until 1953 when it received Meteor F8s at RAF North Weald. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout North Weald Airfield is an operational Airfield, near the village of North Weald Bassett in Epping Forest, Essex. The Meteors were soon replaced with Hunters, with which the Squadron was to achieve international acclaim with their ‘Black Arrows’ aerobatic display team. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Black Arrows, one of the predecessors of the current Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team the Red Arrows, were an Aerobatic demonstration team formed The Squadron received the all-weather Lightning fighter in 1962 which it operated for ten years from RAF Wattisham. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout For information relating to the base as it is today see Wattisham Airfield. In 1974 the squadron re-equipped with the Phantom at RAF Coningsby, before moving north to Leuchars on November 3 1975. RAF Coningsby, is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England.

The squadron gained its current role in 1990 when it began to re-equip with the Tornado. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

Current role

Throughout its time at Leuchars the No 111(F) Squadron has been tasked with the maintenance of Quick Reaction Alert, which involves keeping aircraft at a high state of readiness to intercept, identify and, should it be necessary, destroy hostile aircraft approaching UK airspace. In recent years the Squadron has been involved in Operation Deny Flight over Bosnia, Operations Bolton and Resinate in the Middle East and regularly participates in major Air Defence exercises, both in the UK and abroad. Operation Deny Flight was NATO 's enforcement of the Bosnian No-fly zone which began April 12, 1993 and ended December 20, 1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Latin script: Bosna i Hercegovina, Cyrillic script: Босна и Херцеговина is a country on the Balkan Operation Southern Watch was an operation conducted by Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA with the mission of monitoring and controlling airspace

The squadron participated in Operation Telic where it formed part of the Tornado F3 Wing at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Operation (or Op TELIC is the codename under which all British operations of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and after are being conducted Prince Sultan Air Base (قاعدة الأمير سلطان الجوية ( PSAB) is an air base located at Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA ( المملكة العربية السعودية, al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Suʻūdiyya) or Suudi

Aircraft Operated

1917 to 1920

1923 to 1947

1953 to 1974

From 1974

References

Official RAF 111 Squadron web page

For the later monoplane see Bristol M1 Monoplane Scout The Bristol Scout was a simple single seat rotary-engined Biplane WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Airco DH2 was a single-seat Biplane " pusher " aircraft which operated as a fighter WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Gloster Grebe was developed from the Gloster Grouse (an experimental aircraft later developed as a trainer and was the Royal Air Force 's first WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Armstrong Whitworth Siskin was a British Biplane single-seat Fighter aircraft of the 1920s produced by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The British Gloster Gauntlet was a single-seat Biplane fighter of the RAF designed and built by Gloster Aircraft in the 1930s WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout This is a list of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons. It includes Royal Flying Corps (RFC and Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS squadrons incorporated into the

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