No.23 SQN - T-shirt P-38 Lightning becoming Imperial Airways

becoming Imperial Airways

armed with Aden cannon and Firestreak missiles

Avro Vulcan Type-698 B2 Bomber

operating out of NAS Fallon in Nevada

This aircraft first flew from Boscombe Down in 1954

No.23 SQN - T-shirt P-38 Lightning becoming Imperial Airways23 Squadron Formed by the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 at Gosport, it first operated the B. E. 2C as a night fighter to intercept Zeppelins. Towards the end of World War I the squadron converted to Sopwith Dolphins, but was disbanded in 1919. 1925 the squadron reformed at RAF Henlow with the Snipe, then the Gloster Gamecock. During the second world war it operated the Blenheim, Havoc then Mosquito with many battle honours. Post war types included the