8 Flight Army Air Corps
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8 Flight Army Air Corps
8 Flight Army Air Corps is one of the Independent Flights within the British Army's Army Air Corps. 8 Flight is attached to the Special Air Service and based alongside them in Hereford.[1]
The flight provides the SAS with their own light Special Operations Aviation support.
It is made up of four Eurocopter AS 365N Dauphin helicopters which replaced Agusta A109s in 2008 and two Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopters. The flight previously operated four Agusta 109A's - all of which have now been retired. Two of the Agustas were captured from the Argentines in the Falklands War in 1982 as war prizes and the other two were bought from new.[2]
References
- ^ "Military Aircraft: Helicopters". Parliament of the United Kingdom. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm071001/text/71001w0003.htm#07100111000423. Retrieved 25-March-2010.
- ^ Tim Ripley (10 December 2008). "UK Army Air Corps received Dauphins". Janes Defence Weekly, Vol. 45, Issue 50: 10.
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