Squadron

Type

Deployment Base (s)

7

Lincoln

Tengah

9

Canberra

Butterworth, Changi

12

Canberra

Butterworth, Changi

28

Spitfire FR18

Semabawang

33

Tempest F.2 to January 1951
Hornet F.3 May 1951 to March 1955

Changi
Butterworth
Changi
Tengah
Butterworth
Tengah
Butterworth

45

Brigand Met 3 until June 1949
Brigand B.1 October 1949 to February 1952
Hornet F.3 January 1952 to May 1955
Vampire FB9 May 1955 to January 1956
Venom FB1 October 1955 to November 1957
Canberra B2 November 1957 to December 1962

Kuala Lumpur
Tengah
Butterowrth
Tengah

48

Dakota to May 1951
Valetta C1 June 1950 to September 1950 & May 1951 to December 1957
Hasting C1 & C2 June 1959 to October 1960

Changi
Kuala Lumpur
Changi

52

Dakota to September 1951
Valetta C1 June 1951 to April 1966
Dakota November 1959 to July 1960

Changi
Kuala Lumpur
Seletar
Changi
Kuala Lumpur
Changi
Kuala Lumpur

60

Spitfire F18 January 1947 to January 1951 & March 1950 to November 1950
Vampire FB5 December 1950 to March 1952
Vampire FB9 March 1952 to August 1955
Venom FB1 April 1955 to April 1957
Venom FB4 April 1957 to November 1959
Meteor NF14 October 1959 onwards

Sembawang
Tengah
Butterworth
Kuala Lumpur
Tengah

61

Lincoln

Tengah

81

Mosquito PR34 until December 1955
Spitfire PR19 until January 1950
Spitfire FR18 July 1948 to March 1950 & November 1950 to January 1951
Anson C.19 October 1949 to June 1951
Spitfire FR19 January 1951 to June 1954
Meteor PR10 January 1954 to July 1961
Pembroke C(PR)1 December 1955 to August 1960.

Tengah
Seletar
Tengah

83

Lincoln

Tengah

84

Beaufighter X to October 1948

Changi
Tengah

88

Sunderland GR5 to October 1954

Detachments to Iwakuni & Seletar from Kai Tak
Seletar

97

Lincoln

Tengah

100

Lincoln

Tengah

101

Canberra

Butterworth, Changi

110

Dakota to May 1952
Valetta October 1951 to December 1957
Whirlwind HAR4 June 1959 onwards

Kuala Lumpur
Changi
Seletar
Changi
Kuala Lumpur
Changi
Kuala Lumpur
Changi

Kuala Lumpur
Butterworth

148

Lincoln

Tengah

155

Whirlwind HAR 4 September 1954 to June 1959

Kuala Lumpur
detachments to Seletar & Kluang

194

Dragonfly HC2 February 1953 to June 1956
Sycamore HR14 April 1954 to June 1959

Sembawang
Kuala Lumpur

205

Sunderland GR5 June 1945 to May 1959
Shackleton MR1A May 1958 to September 1962

Seletar
Changi

209

Sunderland V to January 1955
Auster AOP6 November 1958 to March 1959.
Dakota November 1958 to November 1959.
Pembroke C1 November 1958 to February 1960.
Pioneer CC1 November 1958 to December 1968.
Twin Pioneer CC1 March 1959 to December 1968.

Kuala Lumpur
Seletar

267

Dakota February 1954 to November 1958
Auster AOP6 February 1954 to November 1958
Pioneer CC1 February 1954 to November 1958
Pembroke C1 September1954 to November 1958
Harvard T2B November 1954 to December 1956

Kuala Lumpur

656

Auster AOP5 June 1948 to May 1951
Auster AOP6 July 1950 to April 1956
Auster AOP9 September 1955 to September 1957

Sembawang
Flights to Taipang, Seremban, Kai Tak, Kuala Lumpur, Temerloh and Muar.
Changi, flights to Taiping Kuala Lumpur, Kluang, Temerloh and Muar.
Kuala Lumpur, flights to Taipang, Changi, Benta, Sembawang, Ipoh, Johore Bahru, Kluang, Seremban, temerloh and Port Dickson.

617

Canberra

Butterworth, Changi

Far East Communication Squadron

Various types of aircraft were used by this squadron, including Austers, Dakotas, Devons, Harvards, Hastings, Valettas and Yorks. Aircraft enroute to elsewhere in the Far East were also serviced by this squadron.

R.A.F. Changi, Trips were made to all the far east countries including Vietnam (Saigon & Hanoy) mainly carrying V.I.P.s from England & France.