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- Number 22 Squadron of the Royal Air Force is an operational testing and evaluation squadron for all the Joint Helicopter Command helicopter types including Chinook, Puma HC2, Merlin HC4, Apache and Wildcat AH1. Formerly the Rotary Wing Operational Evaluation and Training Unit, the highly experienced helicopter aircrew will also ensure frontline crews have Qualified Warfare Instructors to support them on operations worldwide. The squadron was reformed in May 2020 to serve as the Joint Helicopter Command Operational Evaluation Unit. The squadron previously operated the Westland Sea King HAR.3 and HAR.3A at three stations in the southern United Kingdom. It was originally formed in 1915 as an aerial reconnaissance unit of the Royal Flying Corps serving on the Western Front during the First World War. Becoming part of the Royal Air Force on its formation in 1918, it was disbanded the following year as part of the post-First World War scaling back of the RAF. During the Second World War the squadron operated in the torpedo bomber role over the North Sea and then in the Mediterranean and the Far East. Between 1955 and 2015 the squadron provided military search and rescue over the United Kingdom. (en)
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- * (Honours marked with an asterisk may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard)
- *Biscay Ports (1940–1941)
- *Burma(1944–1945)*
- *Cambrai(1917)
- *Channel and North Sea (1939–1941)*
- *Eastern Waters (1942–1944)*
- *France & Low Countries(1940)
- *Hindenburg Line*
- *Invasion Ports (1940)
- *Mediterranean (1942)*
- *Somme(1916)*
- *Somme(1918)
- *Western Front(1916–1918)*
- *Ypres(1917)*
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- Approved byKing Edward VIIIin May 1936. The Maltese cross denotes where the squadron was based when the badge was authorised. During this time it was based with No. 7 Squadron, having to fly over its lines away from the airfield symbolised by pi being 22 over 7.
- OA (Sep 1939 – Nov 1944)
- VR (Apr 1939 – Sep 1939)
- On a Torteaux, aMaltese Crossthroughout, overall a 'pi'fimbriated.
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- (French: "Valiant and Brave")
- Preux et audicieux
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- Operational Evaluation Unit
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- *Western Front *
*Somme *
*Ypres *
*Cambrai
*Somme
*Hindenburg Line*
*Channel and North Sea *
*France & Low Countries
*Invasion Ports
*Biscay Ports
*Mediterranean *
*Eastern Waters *
*Burma *
* (Honours marked with an asterisk may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard) (en)
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- 0001-02-15 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- 0001-04-01 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- 0001-05-01 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- 0001-05-14 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- 0001-07-24 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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- *Aérospatiale Dauphin AH1
*AgustaWestland Apache AH1
*AgustaWestland Merlin HC4
*AgustaWestland Wildcat AH1
*Bell Griffin HAR2
*Boeing Chinook HC4/HC6/HC6A
*Westland Gazelle AH1
*Westland Puma HC2 (en)
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- OA (en)
- VR (en)
- On a Torteaux, a Maltese Cross throughout, overall a 'pi' fimbriated. (en)
- Approved by King Edward VIII in May 1936. The Maltese cross denotes where the squadron was based when the badge was authorised. During this time it was based with No. 7 Squadron, having to fly over its lines away from the airfield symbolised by pi being 22 over 7. (en)
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- Squadron badge heraldry (en)
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- (en)
- Preux et audicieux (en)
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- Number 22 Squadron of the Royal Air Force is an operational testing and evaluation squadron for all the Joint Helicopter Command helicopter types including Chinook, Puma HC2, Merlin HC4, Apache and Wildcat AH1. Formerly the Rotary Wing Operational Evaluation and Training Unit, the highly experienced helicopter aircrew will also ensure frontline crews have Qualified Warfare Instructors to support them on operations worldwide. The squadron was reformed in May 2020 to serve as the Joint Helicopter Command Operational Evaluation Unit. (en)
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