No. 1 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force squadron based at Amberley, Queensland. It is equipped with Boeing FA-18F Super Hornet multi-role fighters. The squadron was formed under the Australian Flying Corps in 1916. It saw action in the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns during World War I. During World War II, the squadron flew Lockheed Hudson bombers in the Malayan and Dutch East Indies campaigns.
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No. 1 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force squadron based at Amberley, Queensland. It is equipped with Boeing FA-18F Super Hornet multi-role fighters. The squadron was formed under the Australian Flying Corps in 1916 and saw action in the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns during World War I. It was disbanded in 1919, re-formed on paper as part of the RAAF in 1922, and re-established as an operational unit three years later. During World War II, the squadron flew Lockheed Hudson bombers in the Malayan and Dutch East Indies campaigns, suffering severe losses before being reduced to cadre in 1942. From 1950 to 1958 it was based in Singapore, where it bore the brunt of the Commonwealth air campaign against communist guerillas. When it returned to Australia it re-equipped with English Electric Canberra jet bombers. It operated McDonald Douglas F-4E Phantom IIs leased from the USAF from 1970 to 1973, as a stop-gap pending delivery of the General Dynamics F-111C swing-wing bomber. In 2014–15, and again in 2017, a detachment of Super Hornets was deployed to the Middle East aspart of Australia’s contribution to the military intervention against ISIL. The unit motto is Videmus Agamus. The squadron is nicknamed the \”Fighting First\”. The blazon of its crest is \”the Australian Kookaburra in a diving position superimposed on the cross of Jerusalem\”, which symbolises the Victoria Cross-winning action of No.
1 Squadron pilot Frank McNamara in Palestine during World War I. Nicknamed the ‘Rhino’, its missions include air superiority, fighter escort, land strike, maritime strike, close air support, and reconnaissance. It can be refuelled in flight by the Airbus KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transports. The Super Hornets are serviced at the operating level by No. 1 squadron technical staff; heavier maintenance is conducted by Boeing Defence Australia and other contractors. The first of which entered service in March 2010, and is fitted with a 20 mm cannon and can be armed with air-to-air and anti-shipping missiles, as well as a variety of air- to-ground bombs and missiles. It has a complement of 195, 195 aircraft for no. 28 officers and little complement of 28 officers for no aircraft for little complement. Its three flights were however, however, operating in different bases in Sinai, Egypt, and the squadron did not reunite until December 16, 16th 1916, when it took over two primitive Royal Aircraft Factory B. E. 12s, Martinsyde G. 100s and G. 102s. Its last flight was on 12 June, June 12, 1917, when the unit declared itself operational at its new headquarters in Heliopolis, Egypt. It took over three flights, however 17 Squadron belonging to No 17 Squadron, belonging to the Royal Flying Corps.
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