No. 262 Squadron RAF
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No. 262 Squadron RAF was an anti-submarine patrol squadron of the Royal Air Force between 1942 and 1945.
The squadron was officially formed at RAF Hednesford although this was a paper exercise as the squadron personnel and equipment were in transit to Congella in South Africa. It did not start to operate as a squadron until November 1942 bet still had to wait until February 1943 for Catalina aircraft to arrive. It began to operate long anti-submarine patrols over the Indian Ocean. From November 1943 it started to training crews from the South African Air Force with a detachment at Langebann Weg in the Cape Province, it still carried out ant-submarine patrols but began to restrict those patrols to within the South Africa Defence Area.
On the 15 February 1945 the squadron was disbanded when it was renumbered as 35 Squadron South African Air Force.
[edit] Aircraft operated
- 1943-1945 Consolidated Catalina IIB
- 1944-1945 Consolidated Cataline IVB
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- G G Jefford, RAF Squadrons, second edition 2001, Airlife Publishing, UK, ISBN 1-84037-141-2.
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), Orbis Publishing, UK.
