No.23 SQN - T-shirt P-38 Lightning operating out of NAS Fallon

operating out of NAS Fallon in Nevada

The Nimrod AEW3 was to replace the Shackleton in 1991

becoming Imperial Airways

This aircraft first flew from Boscombe Down in 1954

entering service with the USAF in 1947

No.23 SQN - T-shirt P-38 Lightning operating out of NAS Fallon23 Squadron Formed by the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 at Gosport, it first operated the B. E. 2C as a night fighter to intercept Zeppelins. Towards the end of World War I the squadron converted to Sopwith Dolphins, but was disbanded in 1919. 1925 the squadron reformed at RAF Henlow with the Snipe, then the Gloster Gamecock. During the second world war it operated the Blenheim, Havoc then Mosquito with many battle honours. Post war types included the