Spotted and directed artillery fire from light aircraft.

No. 651 Squadron formed at Old Sarum on 1 August 1941 with a mixed crew: the pilots, drivers and signallers came from the Royal Artillery, the adjutants and technicians from the RAF. It went into action in November 1942 during Operation Torch in North Africa, then moved to Sicily and Italy in July 1943 and reached Austria by May 1945, according to Wikipedia’s squadron history. These were RAF squadrons, not Army Air Corps units, but they are the corps’ second parent: in 1957 651 Squadron simply changed its prefix from RAF to AAC.

结果 The Air OP principle, soldiers flying for the guns, became the core of the post-war Army Air Corps.

The number of Air OP squadrons and their losses were not confirmed from a primary source.

为……飞行

Royal Artillery pilots in RAF Air OP squadrons (No. 651 Squadron and others)

在哪里

North Africa, Sicily, Italy, north-west Europe

旁边

美国

反对

德国和意大利

飞机

Auster AOP

损失

在已检查的来源中未找到。.

来源

维基百科 · Army Flying Museum (Middle Wallop)

Flew assault gliders carrying airborne troops and equipment, then fought on the ground.

The glider pilots were soldiers trained to fly and then to fight as infantry once on the ground. Wikipedia lists their operations as Sicily (Operation Ladbroke, 1943), Normandy (including Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery), southern France (Operation Dragoon, 1944), Arnhem (Operation Market Garden, September 1944) and the Rhine crossing (Operation Varsity, March 1945). The National Army Museum names Sicily, Normandy, Arnhem and the Rhine crossings as the corps’ main wartime operations.

结果 The regiment’s best-known feat was the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges on 6 June 1944.

Figures for gliders flown and pilots lost differ between published histories and were not independently confirmed here.

为……飞行

Glider Pilot Regiment, Army Air Corps

在哪里

Sicily, Normandy, southern France, the Netherlands, Germany

旁边

United States and Poland

反对

德国和意大利

飞机

Airspeed Horsa and other gliders

损失

Wikipedia calls the regiment the unit with the highest casualty rate per head in British Army history; exact casualty figures were not confirmed from a primary source and are not given here.

来源

维基百科 · National Army Museum · 维基百科

Artillery observation, photographic reconnaissance, liaison and transport.

1903 Independent Air OP Flight sailed to Korea in HMS Unicorn in July 1951 with five Auster 6s, six Royal Artillery pilots and about 40 RAF technicians, flying from AE111 and then Fort George on the Imjin. 1913 Light Liaison Flight, formed in mid-1951, had six Austers flown by Glider Pilot Regiment pilots, later adding an American L-19A and an Auster 7. The Air OP sorties lasted one to three hours at a few thousand feet, directing artillery.

结果 Both flights won gallantry awards including a DSO and several DFCs; operations ended in January 1955.

These were RAF-numbered flights, before the 1957 corps existed.

为……飞行

Army pilots in RAF-numbered flights (Royal Artillery and Glider Pilot Regiment)

在哪里

韩国

旁边

联合国军司令部和美国

反对

朝鲜和中国

飞机

Auster 6, Auster 7, Cessna L-19A Bird Dog

出击

12,000Approximate: nearly 3,000 Air OP sorties by 1903 Flight and about 9,000 by 1913 Light Liaison Flight, according to the Army Flying Museum.

损失

5人死亡The Army Flying Museum records the 1903 Flight commander, Major Wilfred Harris, killed on 2 June 1953 when a crashing F-84 hit him, two more pilots and two groundcrew killed, and two pilots and an observer shot down and captured.

来源

Army Flying Museum

Light aircraft observation and liaison.

The National Army Museum includes Malaya (1948–60) in the campaigns of the Army Air Corps and its forebears. No detail on aircraft numbers or missions was confirmed from a primary source, so none is given here.

结果 Listed by the National Army Museum among the corps’ campaigns.

Thinly sourced; included for completeness.

为……飞行

Air OP squadrons and, from 1957, the Army Air Corps

在哪里

马来亚

旁边

马来亚

反对

马来亚民族解放军

飞机

Auster AOP

出击

未找到。.

损失

在已检查的来源中未找到。.

来源

National Army Museum

Reconnaissance, liaison, casualty evacuation and resupply in jungle.

The British Army’s page for the corps lists Borneo and Aden (1962–67) as its first deployments, and Wikipedia’s Scout article says the new turbine helicopter served in the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. British Forces Brunei is still on the corps’ list of locations.

结果 The corps’ first campaign after re-formation; the Army still lists it first on its own page.

为……飞行

Army Air Corps

在哪里

Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei)

旁边

马来西亚

反对

印度尼西亚

飞机

Westland Scout AH1

出击

未找到。.

损失

在已检查的来源中未找到。.

来源

British Army · 维基百科 · National Army Museum

Reconnaissance, troop lift and casualty evacuation under fire.

The Radfan campaign tested the Scout in heat and altitude. Wikipedia says multiple Scouts were shot down and recovered, and three were written off between 1964 and 1967. The Army lists Aden with Borneo among the corps’ operations of 1962–67.

结果 Britain withdrew from Aden in 1967.

Loss figure from Wikipedia only.

为……飞行

Army Air Corps

在哪里

Aden and the Radfan mountains

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

National Liberation Front and FLOSY

飞机

Westland Scout AH1

出击

未找到。.

损失

3架飞机Wikipedia says several Scouts were hit and usually recovered, and three were written off.

来源

维基百科 · British Army · National Army Museum

Surveillance, patrol insertion, resupply of border bases and command flying.

The Army dates Operation Banner from 1969 to 2007, and army helicopters flew throughout. Wikipedia’s Scout article credits the type with pioneering the Heli-Tele airborne surveillance camera and Eagle patrols from 1971. In South Armagh, where road movement was dangerous, bases were supplied largely by air.

结果 The Army’s longest campaign; the Gazelle’s last farewell flypast in 2023 was from Aldergrove.

Losses are from Wikipedia and are incomplete.

为……飞行

Army Air Corps

在哪里

Northern Ireland

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

Provisional IRA and other paramilitary groups

飞机

Westland Scout AH1, Gazelle AH1, Lynx

损失

Wikipedia records at least five Scouts written off, a Gazelle that crashed after coming under IRA fire on 17 February 1978 and a Lynx shot down by an IRA mortar on 19 March 1994 whose crew survived. A full official loss list was not found.

来源

British Army · 维基百科 · 维基百科 · 维基百科

Casualty evacuation, resupply, reconnaissance, liaison and missile strikes.

656 Squadron sailed with three Scouts in Europic Ferry on 22 April and more Scouts and six Gazelles in the ferries Baltic and Nordic; the air and groundcrew went south in Queen Elizabeth 2 on 12 May, according to the Army Flying Museum. At first a Scout flight worked as 5 Flight of 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron. On 28 May Scouts flew casualties out for 2 PARA at Goose Green, and on 14 June Scouts fired SS.11 missiles at Argentine positions (Wikipedia). The museum credits the squadron with 195 casualties evacuated, at least 20 of them Argentine, and 90 per cent aircraft availability.

结果 Argentine forces on the islands surrendered on 14 June 1982.

Wikipedia says three Scouts of 656 Squadron took part; the Army Flying Museum lists three in Europic Ferry and three more in Baltic. The friendly-fire loss of XX377 is described as such by the Army Flying Museum.

为……飞行

656 Squadron AAC (with the Royal Marines’ 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron)

在哪里

福克兰群岛

旁边

没有盟军空军

反对

阿根廷

飞机

Westland Scout AH1, Gazelle AH1

出击

588 operational flying hours, according to the Army Flying Museum.

损失

2 aircraft · 4 killed656 Squadron: Gazelle XX377 shot down by HMS Cardiff on the night of 5–6 June, killing Staff Sergeant Chris Griffin and Lance Corporal Simon Cockton (AAC) and Major Mike Forge and Staff Sergeant John Baker (Royal Signals); Scout XR628 lost on 8 June with its crew unhurt (the Army Flying Museum says after an evasive manoeuvre, Wikipedia says a rotor gearbox failure). The two Gazelles shot down on 21 May and the Scout shot down by Pucarás on 28 May belonged to the Royal Marines’ 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron, not the AAC.

来源

Army Flying Museum · 维基百科 · 维基百科

Anti-tank and reconnaissance helicopters.

Wikipedia says 24 TOW-armed Lynx deployed, and that on 26 February 1991 one destroyed two MT-LB armoured personnel carriers and four T-55 tanks; the 4 Regiment AAC article says the regiment went with Lynx and Gazelle. The Army lists the liberation of Kuwait among the corps’ operations.

结果 Kuwait was liberated in February 1991; the AAC’s battle honour is recorded by Wikipedia as Wadi al-Batin.

The 26 February claim is from Wikipedia and was not confirmed from an official source.

为……飞行

Army Air Corps (4 Regiment and others)

在哪里

Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait

旁边

United States, Saudi Arabia and coalition

反对

伊拉克

飞机

Lynx AH7 (TOW), Gazelle AH1

出击

未找到。.

损失

No AAC combat losses were found in the sources checked.

来源

维基百科 · 维基百科 · British Army · 维基百科

Reconnaissance, liaison and utility flying for UN and NATO forces.

The Army’s page lists the Balkans and Kosovo among the corps’ operations between 1979 and 2007 (with Rhodesia and Sierra Leone). Wikipedia records 3 Regiment squadron tours in Bosnia in 1997 and 1999, and Gazelles supporting UN missions.

结果 The Army lists the Balkans and Kosovo among the corps’ operations.

Start and end years are approximate; the Army gives only a combined span.

为……飞行

Army Air Corps

在哪里

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo

旁边

北约和联合国

飞机

Lynx AH7, Gazelle AH1

出击

未找到。.

损失

1架飞机 · 2人死亡Wikipedia records a Lynx crash in Bosnia on 22 December 1998 in which two servicemen were killed.

来源

British Army · 维基百科 · 维基百科 · 维基百科

Reconnaissance, fire support and utility flying in the invasion and the occupation of Basra province.

Wikipedia says 3 Regiment AAC deployed for Telic 1 from January to July 2003 with 12 Lynx and 10 Gazelle. The Ministry of Defence’s casualty notice of 6 May 2006 shows how mixed crews had become: the Lynx lost over Basra belonged to the Royal Navy, but its dead included RAF, Navy, Royal Marines and Army Air Corps personnel.

结果 British combat operations in Iraq ended in 2009; the Army gives the corps’ span as 2003–11.

End date follows the end of UK combat operations; the Army’s page gives 2003–11.

为……飞行

Army Air Corps

在哪里

Southern Iraq

旁边

United States and coalition

反对

Iraq (2003) and insurgent groups

飞机

Lynx AH7/AH9, Gazelle AH1, Defender

出击

未找到。.

损失

No AAC aircraft loss was confirmed. An AAC pilot, Captain David Dobson, was among five killed when an 847 Naval Air Squadron Lynx was shot down over Basra on 6 May 2006.

来源

维基百科 · 英国政府网站 · British Army

Attack helicopter escort and close support, reconnaissance and utility flying.

The Apache AH1 deployed in May 2006 with 16 Air Assault Brigade, and in April 2014 664 Squadron of 4 Regiment flew the 50,000th hour. On 15 January 2007, in Operation Glacier in Helmand, Apache ZJ224 took part in a rescue mission, according to the Army Flying Museum. Upgraded Lynx Mk9As reached Afghanistan from 25 May 2010 to fly in the heat that had limited older Lynx to part of the year.

结果 UK combat operations ended in October 2014; the Army dates its Afghan commitment to 2002–14.

A full AAC casualty list for Herrick was not compiled from official sources.

为……飞行

Army Air Corps

在哪里

Helmand and Kandahar, Afghanistan

旁边

NATO (ISAF) and Afghanistan

反对

塔利班

飞机

Apache AH1, Lynx AH9A, Defender

出击

British Apaches flew 50,000 hours in Afghanistan from 2006 to April 2014, one third of all UK Apache flying, according to the Ministry of Defence.

损失

1架飞机 · 3人死亡A Lynx Mk9A crashed in Kandahar province on 26 April 2014 in what the Ministry of Defence called a tragic accident; five were killed, three of them Army Air Corps (Captain Thomas Clarke, WO2 Spencer Faulkner, Corporal James Walters). Other AAC deaths in Afghanistan were not compiled here.

来源

英国政府网站 · Army Flying Museum · 英国政府网站 · 英国政府网站 · 维基百科 · British Army

Strikes from a Royal Navy ship against regime forces, enforcing a UN Security Council resolution.

HMS Ocean took Apaches to the Libyan coast from late May 2011: four according to Wikipedia’s Operation Ellamy article, three rising to four and then five according to its HMS Ocean article. The first strikes, on 4 June 2011, hit a radar installation and a military checkpoint near Brega. The Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, called it “the first operational mission flown by British Army Apaches at sea.” The Ministry of Defence said the Apaches hit military vehicles, installations and communications equipment.

结果 HMS Ocean operated off Libya for four months; no Apache was lost.

The number of Apaches embarked differs between sources.

为……飞行

656 Squadron, 4 Regiment AAC

在哪里

利比亚

旁边

NATO and France

反对

卡扎菲政府军

飞机

Apache AH1

出击

4949 missions allocated to the Apaches over four months, according to the Ministry of Defence; Wikipedia says they engaged targets on 39 occasions in the first month.

损失

0架飞机 · 0人死亡No Apache losses were reported.

来源

英国政府网站 · 英国政府网站 · 维基百科 · 维基百科 · 维基百科