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No.167 Sqn RAF - Squadron Details - Aviation Directory

No.167 Sqn RAF


Name : No.167 Sqn RAF
Founded : 18th November 1918
Disbanded : 15th September 1958
Country : UK
Fate : Disbanded 15th September 1958
More Details : Gold Coast

Ubique sine mora - Everywhere without delay
Known Code Letters : , QO, VL,




Pilots or Aircrew :
Dennis Jonathan Sims
Historical Notes :
09-11-1941 - Joined No.616 Sqn.
27-01-1942 - Damaged in flying accident.
20-08-1942 - Joined No.331 Sqn with code FN-L.
12-10-1942 - Joined No.453 Sqn RAAF with code FU-B.
31-03-1943 - Joined No.222 Sqn.
19-05-1943 - Joined No.167 Sqn.
08-01-1944 - Joined No.234 Sqn
06-06-1944 - Suffered engine failure and ditched off St Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight. Flight Sergeant Dennis Jonathan Sims killed.
Pilots or Aircrew :
A. Griffiths
Historical Notes :
28-12-1941 - Joined No.504 Sqn.
04-05-1942 - Joined No.215 Sqn.
12-07-1942 - Joined No.167 Sqn.
24-10-1942 - Damaged after accident during take off - swung off runway and overturned.
06-04-1944 - Joined No.26 Sqn.
13-06-1944 - Hit by flak and force landed at Noirey-en-Bessin. Flying Officer A Griffiths evaded capture and returned to his squadron two days later.
Pilots or Aircrew :
Aleksander Chudek
Historical Notes :
28-12-1941 - Joined No.123 Sqn.
15-04-1942 - Joined No.167 Sqn.
27-05-1942 - Joined No.165 Sqn
29-09-1942 - Joined No.133 Sqn.
01-10-1942 - Joined No.336 Sqn.
16-11-1942 - Damaged in flying accident.
02-07-1943 - Now with No.416 Sqn RCAF, damaged in flying accident.
11-02-1944 - Joined No.130 Sqn.
16-02-1944 - Joined No.222 Sqn.
17-03-1944 - Joined No.322 Sqn.
17-04-1944 - Joined No.303 Sqn.
23-06-1944 - Missing presumed shot down by flak from Carentan area. Warrant Officer Aleksander Chudek DFM killed.
Pilots or Aircrew :
Stanislaw Brzeski
Historical Notes :
20-03-1942 - Joined No.317 Sqn with code JH-P.
19-08-1942 - Damaged by Fw190 during a raid on Dieppe.
08-10-1942 - Joined No.315 Sqn.
23-11-1942 - Joined No.453 Sqn with code FU-E.
31-03-1943 - Joined No.222 Sqn.
19-05-1943 - Joined No.167 Sqn.
20-08-1943 - Damaged in flying accident.
05-11-1943 - Joined No.322 Sqn.
28-09-1947 - Struck off.
26-07-1942 - Flown by Polish Ace Stanislaw Brzeski as he claimed a probable Fw190.
Pilots or Aircrew :
William Henry Painter
Historical Notes :
15-03-1942 - Joined No.54 Sqn.
31-05-1942 - Joined No.167 Sqn.
13-06-1942 - Damaged in flying accident.
21-10-1942 - Joined No.164 Sqn.
21-02-1943 - Joined No.341 Sqn.
23-03-1943 - Joined No.340 Sqn.
30-08-1943 - Damaged in flying accident
31-05-1944 - Joined No.234 Sqn.
17-06-1944 - Collided with Spitfire EN861 during a night patrol. Flying Officer William Henry Painter killed. Other aircraft survived with damage.
Pilots or Aircrew :
Francois August Venesoen
Historical Notes :
23-06-1942 - Joined No.453 Sqn RAAF with code FU-A.
14-10-1942 - Damaged in flying accident.
31-03-1943 - Joined No.222 Sqn.
19-05-1943 - Joined No.167 Sqn.
20-07-1943 - Joined No.322 Sqn.
12-10-1943 - Joined No.416 Sqn RCAF.
13-11-1943 - Damaged on operations.
19-05-1944 - Joined No.350 Sqn.
06-06-1944 - Suffered glycol leak and abandoned south west of Friston. Flight Lieutenant Francois August Venesoen DFC killed.



Known Individual Aircraft of No.167 Sqn RAF :

Type

Serial

Codes

First Flew

Squadron History

Aircrew History

History Notes

Engine

Factory

Spitfire Vb

AA936

FN-L
FU-B

30/10/1941

details

details

details

Merlin 45M

High Post

Spitfire Vb

AB240

21/11/1941

details

details

details

Merlin 45M

Chattis Hill

Spitfire Vb

AB271

06/12/1941

details

details

details

Merlin 45M

High Post

Spitfire Vb

AR340

JH-P
FU-E

-

details

details

details

Merlin 45

Westland

Spitfire Vb

BL720

-

details

details

details

Merlin 45

Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory

Spitfire Vb

EN950

FU-A

-

details

details

details

Merlin 45M

Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory

Aircraft for : No.167 Sqn RAF
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Anson



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Manufacturer : Avro
Production Began : 1935
Retired : 1968
Number Built : 11020

Anson

he Avro Anson originated from the Avro 652 commercial aircraft which first flew on 7th January 1935. It was a twin-engine British-built multi-role aircraft which saw distinctive service with both the Royal Air Force and The Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm as well as The Royal Canadian Air Force during and after the Second World War. The prototype 652A first flew at Woodford on 7th January 1935 and was developed from an initial airliner design and named after Admiral George Anson. The adaptation for a coastal reconnaissance role resulted in the production variant, the Avro 652a, which flew at Woodford on New Years Eve 1935 with the type entering service in March 1936 as the Anson Mk1. Initially it was flown with a 3-man crew but later developments in its reconnaissance role required a 4th crew member. The Anson entered service on 6 March 1936 with 48 Squadron equipped with the Anson. At the start of the Second World War, the RAF had received 824 Ansons and there were 26 RAF squadrons operating the Anson I: 10 with Coastal Command and 16 with Bomber Command. All of the squadrons in Bomber Command in 1939 with Anson Is were operational training squadrons that prepared crews for frontline service. 12 of the squadrons were in No. 6 (Operational Training) Group. Newly formed crews having completed individual flying and technical training were first trained as bomber crews in Ansons and then advanced to the various frontline aircraft types, which were also in the same squadrons with the Ansons. After training in the frontline aircraft type, crews would advance to the frontline bomber squadrons with those aircraft types (Fairey Battle, Bristol Blenheim, Vickers Wellington, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, and Handley-Page Hampden). At the start of the war, the Lockheed Hudson was beginning to replace the Ansons in Coastal Command with one squadron of Hudsons and one with both Ansons and Hudsons. Limited numbers of Ansons continued to serve in operational roles such as coastal patrols and air/sea rescue. Early in the war, an Anson scored a probable hit on a German U-boat. In June 1940, a flight of three Ansons was attacked by nine Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109s. Remarkably, before the dogfight ended, without losing any of their own, one of the Ansons destroyed two German aircraft and damaged a third. The aircraft's true role, however, was to train pilots for flying multi-engined bombers such as the Avro Lancaster. The Anson was also used to train the other members of a bomber's aircrew, such as navigators, wireless operators, bomb aimers and air gunners. Postwar, the Anson continued in the training and light transport roles. The last Ansons were withdrawn from RAF service with communications units on 28 June 1968. The Royal Australian Air Force operated 1,028 Ansons, mainly Mk Is, until 1955

Harvard

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Manufacturer : North American Aviation
Production Began : 1935
Retired : 1995
Number Built : 15495

Harvard

The Texan originated from the North American NA-16 prototype (first flown on April 1, 1935) which, modified as the NA-26, was submitted as an entry for a USAAC "Basic Combat" aircraft competition in March, 1937. The first model went into production and 180 were supplied to the USAAC as the BC-1 and 400 to the RAF as the Harvard I. The US Navy received 16 modified aircraft, designated the SNJ-1, and a further 61 as the SNJ-2 with a different engine. The BC-1 was the production version of the NA-26 prototype, with retractable tailwheel landing gear and the provision for armament, a two-way radio, and the 550-hp (410 kW) R-1340-47 engine as standard equipment. Production versions included the BC-1 (Model NA-36) with only minor modifications (177 built), of which 30 were modified as BC-1I instrument trainers; the BC-1A (NA-55) with airframe revisions (92 built); and a single BC-1B with a modified wing center-section. Three BC-2 aircraft were built before the shift to the "advanced trainer" designation, AT-6, which was equivalent to the BC-1A. The differences between the AT-6 and the BC-1 were new outer wing panels with a swept-forward trailing edge, squared-off wingtips, and a triangular rudder, producing the canonical Texan silhouette. After a change to the rear of the canopy, the AT-6 was designated the Harvard II for RAF/RCAF orders and 1,173 were supplied by purchase or Lend Lease, mostly operating in Canada as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Next came the AT-6A which was based on the NA-77 design and was powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-1340-49 Wasp radial engine. The USAAF received 1,549 and the US Navy 270 (as the SNJ-3). The AT-6B was built for gunnery training and could mount a .30 in machine gun on the forward fuselage. It used the R-1340-AN-1 engine, which was to become the standard for the remaining T-6 production. Canada's Noorduyn Aviation built an R-1340-AN-1-powered version of the AT-6A, which was supplied to the USAAF as the AT-16 (1,500 aircraft) and the RAF/RCAF as the Harvard IIB (2,485 aircraft), some of which also served with the Fleet Air Arm and Royal Canadian Navy. No. 1340 Flight RAF used the Harvard in Kenya against the Mau Mau in the 1950s, where they operated with 20-lb bombs and machine guns against the rebels. Some operations took place at altitudes around 20,000 ft above mean sea level. A Harvard was the longest-serving RAF aeroplane,

Meteor



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Manufacturer : Gloster
Production Began : 1944
Number Built : 3947

Meteor

The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet. Designed by George Carter, and built by the Gloster Aircraft Company, Armstrong-Whitworth, the Meteor first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with 616 Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The Gloster Meteor was not an aerodynamically advanced aircraft but the Gloster design team succeeded in producing an effective jet fighter that served the RAF and other air forces for decades. Meteors saw action with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in the Korean War and other air forces used the Meteor. The Royal Danish Air Force, The Belgian Air Force and Isreali Air Force kept the Meteor in service until the early 1970's. A Total of 3947 meteors were built and two Meteors, WL419 and WA638, remain in service with the Martin-Baker company as ejection seat testbeds.

Spitfire



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Manufacturer : Supermarine
Production Began : 1936
Retired : 1948
Number Built : 20351

Spitfire

Royal Air Force fighter aircraft, maximum speed for mark I Supermarine Spitfire, 362mph up to The Seafire 47 with a top speed of 452mph. maximum ceiling for Mk I 34,000feet up to 44,500 for the mark XIV. Maximum range for MK I 575 miles . up to 1475 miles for the Seafire 47. Armament for the various Marks of Spitfire. for MK I, and II . eight fixed .303 browning Machine guns, for MKs V-IX and XVI two 20mm Hispano cannons and four .303 browning machine guns. and on later Marks, six to eight Rockets under the wings or a maximum bomb load of 1,000 lbs. Designed by R J Mitchell, The proto type Spitfire first flew on the 5th March 1936. and entered service with the Royal Air Force in August 1938, with 19 squadron based and RAF Duxford. by the outbreak of World war two, there were twelve squadrons with a total of 187 spitfires, with another 83 in store. Between 1939 and 1945, a large variety of modifications and developments produced a variety of MK,s from I to XVI. The mark II came into service in late 1940, and in March 1941, the Mk,V came into service. To counter the Improvements in fighters of the Luftwaffe especially the FW190, the MK,XII was introduced with its Griffin engine. The Fleet Air Arm used the Mk,I and II and were named Seafires. By the end of production in 1948 a total of 20,351 spitfires had been made and 2408 Seafires. The most produced variant was the Spitfire Mark V, with a total of 6479 spitfires produced. The Royal Air Force kept Spitfires in front line use until April 1954.

Valetta

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Valetta

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Last edited : 15:56, March 29, 2013
Last editor : kc

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