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Ypres, 1917*
Somme, 1918*
Amiens
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Biscay Ports, 1941–1945
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Berlin, 1941–1945*
Ruhr, 1941–1945*
Baltic 1941–1945
Fortress Europe 1941–1944
France & Germany, 1944–1945*
Normandy, 1944*
Honours marked with an asterisk* are those emblazoned on the Squadron Standard , commander1 = , commander1_label = , commander2 = , commander2_label = , commander3 = , commander3_label = , notable_commanders =

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Approved by

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of the

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. It was announced on 5 July 2017 that No. 207 Squadron will again reform to become the Operational Conversion Unit for the UK F-35B Lightning Force and will return to

RAF Marham RAF Marham is a Royal Air Force station and military airbase near the village of Marham in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia. It is home to No. 138 Expeditionary Air Wing (138 EAW) and, as such, is one of the RAF's "Main Operating ...

in Norfolk where it was last based in 1965. No. 207 Squadron arrived at RAF Marham with six F-35Bs on 16 July 2019 before officially standing up on 1 August.

History

Formation and World War I

The main contingent of No. 7 Squadron RNAS was formed from "B" Squadron of No. 4 Wing

RNAS The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps t ...

on 31 December 1916 at

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. However, it is noteworthy that an earlier contingent of the Squadron had previously formed in Kondoa Irangi,

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, in May 1916, flying Aéroplanes Voisins and

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cs for seven months on reconnaissance and bombing duties until disbanding there in January 1917, thus leaving the component in France to endure thereafter. Formed as a specialist night bomber squadron in France in December 1916, No. 7 RNAS flew its first missions on 3 February 1917, with four

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s setting out against the Brugge (Bruges) docks.Rawlings 1961, p. 19. In April of that year it re-equipped with

Handley Page O/100 The Handley Page Type O was a biplane bomber used by Britain during the First World War. When built, the Type O was the largest aircraft that had been built in the UK and one of the largest in the world. There were two main variants, the Handle ...

s, using them for night raids, including attacks against rail targets and ammunition dumps during the

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. During May and June 1917 the Squadron received eight

Handley Page O/400 The Handley Page Type O was a biplane bomber used by Britain during the First World War. When built, the Type O was the largest aircraft that had been built in the UK and one of the largest in the world. There were two main variants, the Handl ...

s. The squadron then split into two in July 1917, with eight O/100s forming the initial equipment of 7A Squadron - later becoming 14 Squadron RNAS - while 7 Squadron continued with 10 O/100s and 8 O/400s.Robertson 1933, p. 1023.Halley 1980, p. 217. On the formation of the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918 it became No. 207 Squadron RAF, moving back to

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in England for complete re-equipping with the more advanced version of the O/100, the

, returning to France in July as part of No. 54 Wing and continuing to fly night raids against railway targets. It moved to Germany as part of the Army of Occupation in January 1919, serving there until August, when it handed its aircraft to No. 100 Squadron and returned to England, where it disbanded on 20 January 1920 at

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.RAF History – Bomber Command 60th Anniversary:No. 207 Squadron
. ''Royal Air Force''. 2004. Retrieved 5 April 2010.

Inter-war period

The squadron re-formed on 1 February 1920 at

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. Its

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s saw service in Turkey in 1922, when it was deployed to

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under the command of

as part of the British intervention in the

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, ota, گرب جابهاسی, Garb Cebhesi) in Turkey, and the Asia Minor Campaign ( el, Μικρασιατική Εκστρατεία, Mikrasiatikí Ekstrateía) or the Asia Minor Catastrophe ( el, Μικ ...

; the Squadron returned to England in September 1923. It re-equipped with

Fairey IIIF The Fairey Aviation Company Fairey III was a family of British reconnaissance biplanes that enjoyed a very long production and service history in both landplane and seaplane variants. First flying on 14 September 1917, examples were still in us ...

s in December 1927, and with the radial engined development of the IIIF, the

Fairey Gordon The Fairey Gordon was a British light bomber (2-seat day bomber) and utility aircraft of the 1930s. The Gordon was a conventional two-bay fabric-covered metal biplane. It was powered by variants of the Armstrong Siddeley Panther IIa engine. A ...

in August 1932. In 1935, as a response to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, it was sent to

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. The Gordon's

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engine proved unreliable in desert conditions, however, and they were replaced with

Vickers Vincent The Vickers Vildebeest and the similar Vickers Vincent were two very large two- to three-seat single-engined British biplanes designed and built by Vickers and used as light bombers, torpedo bombers and in army cooperation roles. First flown i ...

s. The following year, the squadron, again re-equipped with Gordons, returned home to

RAF Worthy Down RAF Worthy Down was a Royal Air Force station built in 1918, north of Winchester, Hampshire, England. After it was transferred to Royal Navy control in 1939 as RNAS Worthy Down (HMS Kestrel), the airfield remained in use throughout the Second Wo ...

, joining

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. It re-equipped with

Vickers Wellesley The Vickers Wellesley was a medium bomber that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs at Brooklands near Weybridge, Surrey. It was one of two aircraft to be named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of We ...

s in 1937, only for them to be replaced with

Fairey Battle The Fairey Battle is a British single-engine light bomber that was designed and manufactured by the Fairey Aviation Company. It was developed during the mid-1930s for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a monoplane successor to the Hawker Hart and Hi ...

s early the following year. Based at

RAF Cottesmore Royal Air Force Station Cottesmore or more simply RAF Cottesmore is a former Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England, situated between Cottesmore and Market Overton. On 15 December 2009, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth announced that the ...

, the squadron took the role of an Operational Training Unit.Rawlings 1961, pp. 19–20.

Second World War

On 19 April 1940, the squadron's training role was assumed by No. 12 Operational Training Unit (OTU), allowing No. 207 Squadron to re-form on 1 November of that year as part of Bomber Command's No. 5 Group. At

RAF Waddington Royal Air Force Waddington otherwise known as RAF Waddington is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located beside the village of Waddington, south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire in England. The station is the RAF's Intelligence Surveillance Target A ...

, the squadron's crews were assigned the task of introducing the ill-fated

Avro Manchester The Avro 679 Manchester was a British twin-engine heavy bomber developed and manufactured by the Avro aircraft company in the United Kingdom. While not being built in great numbers, it was the forerunner of the famed and vastly more successful ...

into service. Later moving to

RAF Bottesford Royal Air Force Bottesford or more simply RAF Bottesford is a former Royal Air Force station located on the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire county border, north west of Grantham, Lincolnshire and south of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and about ...

, the Manchesters were replaced by the much improved

Avro Lancaster The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirlin ...

in March 1942. The squadron relocated to

RAF Langar Royal Air Force Station Langar or more simply RAF Langar is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Langar, Nottinghamshire, England. The airfield is located approximately east-southeast of Radcliffe on Trent and about nor ...

on 21 September, owing to the Bottesford

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surface breaking up and needing urgent repairs. In October 1943, No. 207 Squadron became the first occupant of the newly opened

RAF Spilsby Royal Air Force Spilsby or more simply RAF Spilsby is a former Royal Air Force station during the Second World War and the Cold War located in the rural village of Great Steeping, near the market town of Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. Halpenny, ...

bomber station.Jefford, 1988, p. 69 The squadron was scheduled to form part of the

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against

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. With the dropping of the

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s on

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and

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the Tiger Force plans were dropped and in November 1945, No. 207 Squadron relocated to

RAF Methwold Royal Air Force Methwold or more simply RAF Methwold is a Royal Air Force station located north east of Feltwell, Norfolk and north west of Thetford, Norfolk, England. History RAF Methwold opened as a dispersal airfield for RAF Feltwell i ...

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Cold War (1946–1984)

Bombing role (1946–1965)

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After moving to

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in 1949 and briefly replacing the Lancaster with the

Avro Lincoln The Avro Type 694 Lincoln is a British four-engined heavy bomber, which first flew on 9 June 1944. Developed from the Avro Lancaster, the first Lincoln variants were initially known as the Lancaster IV and V; these were renamed Lincoln I and ...

, the Squadron was disbanded on 1 March 1950. Re-formed on 4 June 1951 at

, No. 207 Squadron flew the Boeing Washington B.1 until March 1954, when it was replaced by the

English Electric Canberra The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation, jet-powered medium bomber. It was developed by English Electric during the mid- to late 1940s in response to a 1944 Air Ministry requirement for a successor to the wartime de Havil ...

, which remained in service with the squadron until it disbanded on 27 March 1956. On 1 April 1956, the squadron re-formed again at RAF Marham and was now equipped with the Vickers Valiant B.1. In October the same year, No. 207 Squadron deployed to

RAF Luqa Royal Air Force Luqa was a Royal Air Force station located on the island of Malta, now developed into the Malta International Airport. It hosted aircraft of Air Headquarters Malta (AHQ Malta) during the Second World War. Particularly during ...

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, to take part in the

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, flying 11 sorties over Egypt between October and November. On 1 May 1965, the squadron disbanded with the grounding of the Valiant fleet.

Communications role (1969–1984)

No. 207 Squadron was re-formed on 3 February 1969 at

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by redesignating the Strike Command Communications Squadron, which had been until 1 January 1969 the Southern Communications Squadron based at

RAF Bovingdon Royal Air Force Bovingdon or more simply RAF Bovingdon is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England, about south-west of Hemel Hempstead and south-east of Berkhamsted. During the Second W ...

. It was equipped with Devon C.2s, Basset CC.1s and Pembroke C.1s, with the squadron first retiring the Bassets in 1974, and its last Pembroke being transferred to No. 60 Squadron in Germany in November 1975, leaving No. 207 Squadron with 14 Devons.Burney 1984, p. 411. Detachments of the squadron were located at

RAF Wyton Royal Air Force Wyton or more simply RAF Wyton is a Royal Air Force station near St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. The airfield is decommissioned and is now home to the Joint Forces Intelligence Group. History Flying station Wyton has be ...

and

RAF Turnhouse Royal Air Force Turnhouse or more simply RAF Turnhouse is a former Royal Air Force Sector Station located in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is now Edinburgh Airport. History The following units were here at some point: ;First World War * No. 26 Reserve ...

. No. 207 Squadron was once more disbanded on retirement of the remaining Devons on 30 June 1984, ''VP952'' ending up at the RAF Museum St Athan. In its last years it was part of No. 1 Group.

Tucano (2002–2012)

On 12 July 2002, one of the Flying Training Squadrons operating Short Tucano T.1s at

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RAF Linton-on-Ouse RAF Linton-on-Ouse was a Royal Air Force (RAF) station at Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, England, north-west of York. It had satellite stations at RAF Topcliffe and Dishforth Airfield (British Army). The station opened in 1937. With the ...

, was renumbered as No. 207 (Reserve) Squadron. Tasked with Basic Fast Jet Training, the squadron provided training for both RAF and Royal Navy students – including

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, who was part of the squadron in 2008. The squadron was later disbanded on 13 January 2012 as a result of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review. The squadron's Standard was laid up at

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on 3 October 2013.

F-35B Lightning (2019–present)

On 5 July 2017, it was announced by the Chief of the Air Staff,

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at RAF Marham that No. 207 Squadron would be the Operational Conversion Unit for the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning, being chosen due to its heritage as both a RNAS and RAF unit. No. 207 Squadron arrived at RAF Marham from

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on 16 July 2019 with six Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightnings (''ZM137'', ''ZM139'', ''ZM149'', ''ZM150'', ''ZM151'' and ''ZM152'') shortly before its reformation date of 1 August. No. 207 Squadron made their first sortie from Marham on 29 July. Wing Commander Scott Williams is the new squadron's first Officer Commanding who raised the squadron pennant when it stood up on 1 August. On 28 January 2020, No. 207 Squadron became the first UK unit in a decade to operate jets in home waters from a British carrier – flying from HMS ''Queen Elizabeth''. On 17 November 2021 a Royal Air Force F-35B, identified as ''ZM152,'' crashed during routine operations from HMS Queen Elizabeth. Early reports suggested some of "the covers and engine blanks" had not been removed before takeoff. The wreckage, which had broken into multiple pieces, including all security sensitive equipment, was largely recovered with the assistance of U.S. and Italian forces.

Aircraft operated

Aircraft operated include:Hamlin 1999, pp. 207–219. *

Voisin III The Voisin III was a French World War I two-seat pusher biplane multi-purpose aircraft developed by Voisin in 1914 as a more powerful version of the 1912 Voisin I. It is notable for being the aircraft used for the first successful shooting down ...

(June 1916 – Jan 1917) *

(June 1916 – Jan 1917) * Caudron G.4 (Dec 1916) *

Sopwith 1½ Strutter The Sopwith Strutter was a British single- or two-seat multi-role biplane aircraft of the First World War.Lake 2002, p. 40. It was the first British two-seat tractor fighter and the first British aircraft to enter service with a synchronised ...

(Dec 1916 – Apr 1917) *

(Dec 1916 – June 1917) *

(Apr 1917 – Apr 1918) *

(Apr 1918 – Aug 1919) *

(Feb 1920 – Dec 1927) *

Fairey III The Fairey Aviation Company Fairey III was a family of British reconnaissance biplanes that enjoyed a very long production and service history in both landplane and seaplane variants. First flying on 14 September 1917, examples were still in us ...

F (Dec 1927 – Sep 1932) *

Mk.I (Sep 1932 – Apr 1936) *

Mk.I (Apr 1936 – Aug 1936) * Fairey Gordon Mk.I (Aug 1936 – Aug 1937) *

(Aug 1937 – Apr 1938) *

(Apr 1938 – Apr 1940) *

Avro Anson The Avro Anson is a British twin-engined, multi-role aircraft built by the aircraft manufacturer Avro. Large numbers of the type served in a variety of roles for the Royal Air Force (RAF), Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) a ...

Mk.I (July 1939 – Apr 1940) *

Mk.I (Nov 1940 – Mar 1942) *

Handley Page Hampden The Handley Page HP.52 Hampden is a British twin-engine medium bomber that was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was part of the trio of large twin-engine bombers procured for the RAF, joining the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and Vickers ...

Mk.I (July 1941 – Aug 1941) *

Mk.I (Mar 1942 – Aug 1949) * Avro Lancaster Mk.III (May 1943 – Dec 1947) *

B.2 (Aug 1949 – Mar 1950) *

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B.1 (July 1951 – Mar 1954) *

B.2 (Mar 1954 – Mar 1956) *

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B.1 (July 1956 – Feb 1965) *

Beagle Basset The Beagle B.206 is a 1960s British seven-seat twin-piston engined liaison and communication aircraft built by Beagle Aircraft Limited at Shoreham Airport and Rearsby Aerodrome. Design and development The design of a twin-engined light tr ...

CC.1 (Feb 1969 – May 1974) *

Percival Pembroke The Percival Pembroke is a British high-wing twin-engined light transport aircraft built by the Percival Aircraft Company, later Hunting Percival. Development The Pembroke was a development of the Percival Prince civil transport. It had a ...

C.1 (Feb 1969 – Nov 1975) *

de Havilland Devon The de Havilland DH.104 Dove is a British short-haul airliner developed and manufactured by de Havilland. The design, which was a monoplane successor to the pre-war Dragon Rapide biplane, came about from the Brabazon Committee report which, ...

C.2 (Feb 1969 – June 1984) *

Short Tucano The Short Tucano is a two-seat turboprop basic trainer built by Short Brothers in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is a licence-built version of the Brazilian Embraer EMB 312 Tucano. On 14 February 1986, the prototype conducted its maiden flig ...

T.1 (July 2002 – Jan 2012) * Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning (July 2019 – present)

Squadron bases

References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Aitken, Flt.Lt. W.M. (ed.) ''A History of No.207 Squadron – the First 68 Years''. 207 Squadron RAF, 1984. * Bewsher, Paul. ''Green Balls: the Adventures of a Night Bomber''. Greenhill Books, 1986. . (reprint of William Blackwood 1919 edition). * Bowyer, Michael J.F. and John D.R. Rawlings. ''Squadron Codes, 1937–56''. Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1979. . * Burney, Allan. "Devon Demob". ''Aircraft Illustrated'', September 1984, Vol 17 No 9. pp. 407–411. . * Dick, David. ''207 Squadron Memorial Book''. 207 Sqn RAF Association, 1993. * Flintham, Vic and Andrew Thomas. ''Combat Codes: A full explanation and listing of British, Commonwealth and Allied air force unit codes since 1938''. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 2003. . * Goodwin, Barry and Raymond Glynne-Owen. ''207 Squadron: RAF Langar, 1942–1943''. Langar Airfield, York, UK: Quacks Books/207 Squadron Memorial Committee, 1994. . * Halley, James J. ''The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force''. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1980. . * Halley, James J. ''The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth, 1918–1988''. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. . * Hamlin, John F. ''Always Prepared – The History of 207 Squadron RAF''. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1999. . * 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). . * Laing, John A. ''The Washington Era: Marham June 1951 to March 1954''. Perth, Scotland: Self-published, 1998. * Moyes, Philip J.R. ''Bomber Squadrons of the RAF and their Aircraft''. London: Macdonald and Jane's (Publishers) Ltd., 2nd edition 1976. . * Rawlings, John D.R. "Squadron Histories: No.207". ''Air Pictorial'', January 1961. Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 19–20. * Robertson, F. A. de V
"No. 207 (Bomber) Squadron"
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'', 12 October 1933, pp. 1022–1024. * Wynn, Humphrey. ''Darkness Shall Cover Me: Night Bombing over the Western Front, 1918''. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1989. . ** (also published as ''The Black Cat Squadron: Night Bombing in World War I''). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

External links

RAF Spilsby history

207 Squadron RAF Association website

Lancaster ED627, EM-N of 207 Squadron RAF
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