No. 229 Squadron RAF

RAF Fighter Command 1939 - 1945
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No. 229 Squadron RAF
Group Squadron Base County Arrived Comments
12 229 Digby Lincolnshire 06/10/39 Reformed. Blenheim If, 11/39. Hurricane I, 03/40. 1 Flight to France 16/05/40.
12 229 Wittering Northamptonshire 26/06/40
11 229 Northolt Middlesex 09/09/40
12 229 Wittering Northamptonshire 15/12/40
9 229 Speke Lancashire 22/12/40 To LG07, Middle East, 20/05/41.
11 229 Hornchurch Essex 24/04/44 Ex- Catania. Spitfire IX, 05/44.
2TAF 229 Detling Kent 19/05/44
2TAF 229 Tangmere Sussex 22/06/44
2TAF 229 Merston Sussex 24/06/44
2TAF 229 Gatwick Surrey 28/06/44
2TAF 229 Coltishall Norfolk 01/07/44
2TAF 229 Manston Kent 25/09/44
2TAF 229 Matlaske Norfolk 22/10/44
229 Swannington 20/11/44
12 229 Coltishall Norfolk 02/12/44 Spitfire LFXVIe, 12/44. Renumbered as No. 603 Squadron, 10/01/45.

Copyright: Ross McNeill May 1999