No. 530 Squadron RAF was one of the ten
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 ...
nightfighter squadrons of the
Royal Air Force during the
Second World War.
History
No. 530 Squadron was formed at
RAF Hunsdon
Hunsdon is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It is around east of Ware and north-west of Harlow. The population of the village taken at the 2011 Census was 1,080.
See also
*Baron Hunsdon
*Hunsdon Airfield
*The Hundred Pa ...
,
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
on 8
September 1942, from
No. 1451 (Turbinlite) Flight,
as part of
No. 11 Group RAF in
Fighter Command. Instead of operating only Turbinlite and -rudimentary-
Airborne Intercept (AI) radar equipped aircraft (
Havocs and Bostons) and working together with a normal nightfighter unit, such as with
3 Squadron in the Flight, the unit now also flew with their own
Hawker Hurricanes. It was disbanded at Hunsdon 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.
Aircraft operated
Squadron bases
Commanding officers
References
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External links
530 Squadron history on MOD site
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530 Squadron
Military units and formations established in 1942