No. 1454 (Fighter) Flight was formed at RAF Colerne, Wiltshire on 27 June 1941, equipped with

Turbinlite The Helmore/ GEC Turbinlite was a 2,700 million candela (2.7 Gcd) searchlight fitted in the nose of a number of British Douglas Havoc night fighters during the early part of the Second World War and around the time of The Blitz. The ...

Douglas Boston and

Douglas Havoc The Douglas A-20 Havoc (company designation DB-7) is an American medium bomber, attack aircraft, night intruder, night fighter, and reconnaissance aircraft of World War II. Designed to meet an Army Air Corps requirement for a bomber, it was or ...

aircraft.Lake 1999, p. 90. By 26 January 1942 the flight moved to RAF Charmy Down, Somerset.Sturtivant and Hamlin 2007, p. 123. On operations they co-operated with the Hawker Hurricanes of 87 Squadron,Rawlings 1978, p. 465. which also flew from Charmy Down. The flight was replaced with 533 Squadron on 8 September 1942 (not on 2 September due to administrative reasons) but officially disbanded as late as 31 January 1943. 533 Sqn, which had taken over men and machines, carried on flying the Turbinlite Bostons and Havocs till the system was abandoned on 25 January 1943, when Turbinlite squadrons were, due to lack of success on their part and the rapid development of AI radar, thought to be superfluous.Rawlings 1978, p. 463.

Aircraft operated

Flight bases

Commanding officers

References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Delve, Ken. ''The Source Book of the RAF''. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1994. . * Halley, James J. ''The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918-1988''. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. . * Jefford, C.G. ''RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912''. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001). . * Lake, Alan. ''Flying Units of the RAF''. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1999. . * Rawlings, John D.R. ''Fighter Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft''. London: Macdonald & Jane's (Publishers) Ltd., 1969 (2nd edition 1976, reprinted 1978). . * Sturtivant, Ray, ISO and John Hamlin. ''RAF Flying Training And Support Units since 1912''. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2007. .

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Aircraft and Markings of no. 511-598 sqn, amongst them 533 sqn, the successor of 1454 flt.
{{Royal Air Force 1454 Flight Military units and formations established in 1941