412 Transport Squadron

412 Transport Squadron

Active	1941–present
Country	Canada
Branch	Royal Canadian Air Force
Role	VIP transport and general duties
Home station	Ottawa, Ontario
Motto(s)	Promptus Ad Vindictam ("Swift to avenge")
Battle honours	Defence of Britain 1941–44 English Channel and North Sea 1942–43 Fortress Europe 1941–44 Dieppe France and Germany 1944–45 Normandy 1944 Arnhem Rhine
Insignia
Squadron Badge	A falcon volant
Aircraft flown
Transport	CC-144 Challenger

No. 412 Transport Squadron is one of three Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) transport squadrons attached to Ottawa, Ontario. The squadron operates with a strength of about 29 out of the Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. Annex. The Annex officially opened on January 11, 1995.^[1]

No. 412 Squadron began as a unit of the RCAF during the Second World War.

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History

Second World War

No. 412 (Transport) Squadron was formed in 1949, but traces its history back to two separate squadrons: Number 12 Communications Flight at RCAF Station Ottawa and 412 (Fighter) Squadron, which was formed at RAF Digby, England on 30 June 1941.^[2]

John Gillespie Magee, the author of the famous aviation poem, High Flight, was serving with 412 Squadron when he was killed in a mid-air collision in his Spitfire in 1941.^[3]

No. 412 Squadron (squadron code 'VZ'^[4]) was equipped with the Supermarine Spitfire Vb and served at a number of RAF Stations in the United Kingdom ^[4] In October 1943, the squadron joined RCAF 126 Wing, part of the RAF Second Tactical Air Force. It was re-equipped with the Supermarine Spitfire IXb in November and began operating over northern France in preparation for Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings. It was during late 1943 that the ace George "Screwball" Beurling scored his last air victory while serving with the squadron.^[5] On July 17, 1944, 412 Squadron pilot Charley Fox seriously injured Field Marshal Erwin Rommel during a strafing run.^[6]

The squadron was moved to France in June 1944, days after the Allied landings and operated on continental Europe for the remainder of the war. The squadron was based at Wunstorf, Germany when the war ended in May 1945.^[4]

Postwar

After the Second World War, Number 12 Communications Flight was reassigned as 412 Squadron on 1 April 1947, and renamed 412 (Composite) Squadron based at Rockcliffe. In 1955, the 412 moved to Uplands. In the late 1970s a sub-unit was established at CFB Lahr in West Germany. This operation closed in 1993.

In 1994, CFB Ottawa (Uplands) closed and 412's fleet was moved to a civilian hangar at Ottawa International Airport. All aircraft are maintained by Transport Canada on behalf of the Canadian Forces.

Current role

Today, 412 (Transport)Squadron provides executive transport for the Office of the Governor General, members of Parliament, high-level government officials, members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and foreign VIPs while they are in Canada. 412 (T) Sqn also provides aeromedical evacuation and transport.

Aircraft operated

Aircraft previously used by 412:

Supermarine Spitfire
North American Harvard
Beechcraft Expeditor
Douglas Dakota
1 Canadair North Star 1949–1966
2 de Havilland Comet 1A 1953–1963
2 Canadair CC-106 Yukon 1961–1978 - VIP configuration
1 de Havilland Canada CC-132 (Dash 7) - based at Lahr 1980–1987
2 de Havilland Canada CC-142 (Dash 8) - based at Lahr 1987–93
1 Canadair CC-109 Cosmopolitan 1960–1980
7 Dassault CC-117 (Falcon) 1968–1985

Aircraft currently used by 412:

4 Canadair CC-144 Challenger business jets.^[7]

References

^ DND - Canada's Air Force - History Retrieved 2015-12-15
^ "412 Transport Squadron". CMP: Directorate of History and Heritage. 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
^ "412 Squadron". raf-lincolnshire.info. 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c "No. 412 Squadron". canadianwings.com. 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
^ "Combat Reports, Second World War: Image details, Beurling, Flight Lieutenant, 30 December 1943." DocumentsOnline, The National Archives. Retrieved: 29 July 2009.
^ "Spitfire pilot 'Flying Fox' remembered for veterans' work". CBC. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
^ "412 Transport Squadron". Royal Canadian Air Force. 2013. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 412 Squadron RCAF.

Flying Officer L.R.N. Ashley (August 1958). "The Story Of No. 412 Squadron" (PDF). The Roundel. Vol. 10, no. 6. Royal Canadian Air Force. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2014.

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WW2 Canada

1 August 1939 - May 1942	AY BK BT DM EX FD FY JY KA KO LT MX NA OP OY PB QN RE TM XE XO YO ZD
Unit formation in 1940 - May 1942	AN BF GK GV LU PO QE TQ RA
Dartmouth Hurricanes 1942	1 or 2 1 or 2 1 or 2
May 1942 - 16 October 1942	AE AF AG AN AZ BA BD BV DE DZ EA ED EN ET FG FN GA GR HA HJ JK KL LM LR LV LZ MA MK MR NO PQ QG RA RS SZ TF TN UV UY VD VW XP XY YA YH YZ ZM ZR

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Operational squadrons	AB AE AL AN AU AW BM BX 2I CI DB DG DH DN EE EQ 5V FD F3 6U GX G9 HU I8 9G KH KP KW LQ NA ND NH OW PT QB QL QO QY RA RR RU RV SE SP SW TH VR VZ WL YI YO YZ ZL ZU Z2
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1947 - 1951 (VC XXA)³	AA AB AC AD AG AH AK AM AN AO AP AQ AT AU AW AX BA BC BN BQ BU XV
1951 - 1958 (XX nnn)⁴	AF AM AN AP AQ AS AX BA BB BH BQ BR BT BU BV DL FG GW HG HO IG JF JW KE KH LP MN NQ PF PR QP QT RX SA SP SV TF UD VN XK XV

¹Aircraft administered and serviced by the RCAF but manned by the Royal Canadian Artillery.

² Non-standard code as unit using OW added L. Letters normally denoted parent Command, aircraft type (L Liberator transport, D Dakota etc), unit, and individual aircraft.

³ VC

XXA where VC was the civil code used by the RCAF replacing CF-, XX was the unit code and A was the aircraft ID letter

⁴ XX

nnn where XX was the unit code and nnn was the last 3 digits of the serial number. Unit code was replaced with "RCAF" in 1958

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