No. 28 Squadron RAF
| No. 28 Squadron RAF | |
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| Active | 7 November 1915 – present |
| Role | Battlefield Support Helicopter |
| Garrison/HQ | RAF Benson, Oxfordshire |
| Motto(s) |
Quicquid agas age Latin: "Whatsoever you may do, do" |
| Equipment |
Boeing Chinook HC.4 Westland Puma HC.2 |
| Battle honours | Italian Front and Adriatic 1917–1918, Piave, Vittoria Venito, Waziristan 1921–1925, North-West Frontier 1939, Burma 1942, Arakan 1943–1944, Manipur 1944, Burma 1944–1945. |
| Insignia | |
| Badge | In front of a demi-Pegasus, a fasces |
Quicquid agas age
No. 28 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Puma and Chinook Helicopters from RAF Benson.
No. 28 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was formed on 7 November 1915 at RAF Gosport. Initially a training squadron it became a fighter squadron equipped with the Sopwith Camel. After the end of the First World War it had claimed 136 victories. It numbered eleven flying aces among its ranks, including: future Air Vice-Marshal Clifford MacKay McEwen, William George Barker, Harold B. Hudson, James Hart Mitchell, Stanley Stanger, Arthur Cooper, Percy Wilson, Thomas Frederic Williams, and Joseph E. Hallonquist.
The squadron was disbanded on 20 January 1920 at RAF Eastleigh however on 1 April 1920 it was reformed at RAF Ambala with the Bristol F2b Fighter. During the 1920s and 30's it was moved to various bases within India and operated different aircraft including changing to the Westland Wapiti during September 1931 and the Hawker Audax during June 1936.
Remaining in Asia, during the Second World War it flew the Westland Lysander from September 1941 and from December 1942 the Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber. By 1943 the squadron was operating in Burma until July 1945 when it started to re-equip with the Supermarine Spitfire.
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