List of de Havilland Vampire operators explained

List of operators of the de Havilland Vampire:

• Österreichische Luftstreitkräfte

• Royal Australian Air Force
  • No. 21 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 22 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 23 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 25 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 75 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 76 Squadron RAAF
  • No. 1 Advanced Flying Training School RAAF^[1]
  • No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF
  • No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF
  • Central Flying School RAAF
• Fleet Air Arm
  • 723 Squadron RAN
  • 724 Squadron RAN

• Burmese Air Force 1954–1978, 8 x T.55s^[2]

Canada

• Royal Canadian Air Force
  • No. 421 Squadron RCAF
  • No. 442 Squadron RCAF

• Royal Ceylon Air Force 1954, 3 x T.55s delivered but not used and returned to de Havilland still crated, order for further T.55s and FB.52s cancelled.^[3]

• Fuerza Aérea de Chile

Congo

• Fuerza Aérea de Republica Dominicana operated 25 ex-Swedish F.1s and 17 ex-Swedish FB.50s.

• Egyptian Air Force

• Suomen Ilmavoimat

• Armee de l'Air
• Aeronavale

• Indian Air Force
• Indian Naval Air Arm

• Tentara Nasional Indonesia - Angkatan Udara operated six T.11s.

Iraq

• Iraqi Air Force took delivery of 12 FB.52s fighters and 10 T.55 trainers between 1953 and 1955. These aircraft were affected to No. 5 Squadron. At least one T.55 was donated to Somalia in 1964.

• Irish Air Corps operated six T.55 trainers between 1956 and 1976

• Italian Air Force operated 268 Vampire from 1949 until 1960 ^[4]

Japan

• Japan Air Self-Defense Force received one Vampire T.55 trainer for evaluation in 1955.^[5]

• Royal Jordanian Air Force

• Katangese Air Force operated two ex-Portuguese T.11s.^[6]

• Lebanese Air Force

• Fuerza Aérea Mexicana retired their Vampires in 1967

• Royal New Zealand Air Force
  • No. 14 Squadron RNZAF
  • No. 75 Squadron RNZAF

• Royal Norwegian Air Force
  • No. 336 Squadron RNoAF
  • No. 337 Squadron RNoAF
  • No. 339 Squadron RNoAF
  • Jet Training Wing

• Força Aérea Portuguesa Two T.55 trainers.^[7]

• Rhodesian Air Force / Royal Rhodesian Air Force - No. 2 Squadron operated Vampire FB.9s and T.55s

• Royal Saudi Air Force - 15 former Egyptian FB.52s delivered in 1957 and withdrawn in 1958.
  • No. 5 Squadron

Somalia

• Somali Air Force

South Africa

• South African Air Force

• Flygvapnet operated 70 F.1 (designated J 28A); 310 FB.50 (J 28B) and 57 T.55 (J 28C) aircraft.

• Schweizerische Flugwaffe Kommando der Flieger und Fliegerabwehrtruppen (Flugwaffe)

• Syrian Air Force

• Royal Air Force
  • No. 3 Squadron RAF F.1^[8]
  • No. 4 Squadron RAF FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 5 Squadron RAF F.3, FB.5
  • No. 6 Squadron RAF FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 8 Squadron RAF FB.9
  • No. 11 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 14 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 16 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 20 Squadron RAF F.1, F.3, FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 23 Squadron RAF NF.10
  • No. 25 Squadron RAF NF.10
  • No. 26 Squadron RAF FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 28 Squadron RAF FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 32 Squadron RAF F.3, FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 45 Squadron RAF FB.9
  • No. 54 Squadron RAF F.1, F.3, FB.5
  • No. 60 Squadron RAF FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 67 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 71 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 72 Squadron RAF F.1, F.3, FB.5
  • No. 73 Squadron RAF F.3. FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 93 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 94 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 98 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 112 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 118 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 130 Squadron RAF F.1
  • No. 145 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 151 Squadron RAF NF.10
  • No. 185 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 213 Squadron RAF FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 234 Squadron RAF FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 247 Squadron RAF F.1, F.3, FB.5
  • No. 249 Squadron RAF FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 266 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 501 Squadron RAF F.1, FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 502 Squadron RAF F.3, FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 595 Squadron RAF F.1
  • No. 601 Squadron RAF F.3
  • No. 602 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 603 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 604 Squadron RAF F.3
  • No. 605 Squadron RAF F.1, F.3, FB.5
  • No. 607 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 608 Squadron RAF F.1, F.3, FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 609 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 612 Squadron RAF FB.5
  • No. 613 Squadron RAF F.1, FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 614 Squadron RAF F.3, FB.5, FB.9
  • No. 631 Squadron RAF F.1
  • No. 202 Advanced Flying School RAF
  • No. 203 Advanced Flying School RAF
  • No. 206 Advanced Flying School RAF
  • No. 208 Advanced Flying School RAF
  • No. 210 Advanced Flying School RAF
  • No. 226 Operational Conversion Unit RAF
  • No. 229 Operational Conversion Unit RAF
  • No. 233 Operational Conversion Unit RAF
  • No. 1 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 3 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 4 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 5 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 7 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 8 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 9 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 10 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 11 Flying Training School RAF
  • No. 102 Flying Refresher School RAF
  • No. 103 Flying Refresher School RAF
• Central Flying School
• Royal Air Force College
• Central Air Traffic Control School RAF
• Central Navigation and Control School RAF
• Fleet Air Arm
  • 700 Naval Air Squadron F.20, T.22
  • 702 Naval Air Squadron F.20, T.22
  • 703 Naval Air Squadron F.20, F.21
  • 718 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 724 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 727 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 728 Naval Air Squadron F.20
  • 736 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 750 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 759 Naval Air Squadron F.20, T.22
  • 764 Naval Air Squadron F.20, F.21, T.22
  • 766 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 771 Naval Air Squadron F.20, F.21
  • 781 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 787 Naval Air Squadron F.20
  • 802 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 806 Naval Air Squadron F.20, T.22
  • 808 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 809 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 831 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 890 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 891 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 892 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 893 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 1831 Naval Air Squadron T.22
  • 1832 Naval Air Squadron T.22

• Fuerza Aérea Venezolana

• Zimbabwe Air Force - No. 2 Squadron operated Vampire FB.9s and T.55s. They were replaced by BAe Hawks in the 1980s.

References

Bibliography

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• Book: Jefford, C.G. . RAF Squadrons . 1988 . Airlife Publishing Ltd . 1-85310-053-6.
• Book: Sipos . Milos . Cooper . Tom . Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970 . 2020 . Helion & Company Publishing . Warwick, UK . 978-1-913118-74-7.
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Notes and References

1. http://members.iinet.net.au/~2fts/index.html "No. 1 Advanced Flying Training School RAAF."
2. Watkins 2013, p. 222
3. Watkins 2013, p. 230
4. Web site: Italian Air Force Aircraft Types. www.aeroflight.co.uk.
5. Birtles 1986, p. 58.
6. Web site: All-Time Aircraft Used List Katanga Air Force – Aeroflight. 27 February 2017 .
7. Nicolli, Dott Ricardo Atlantic Sentinels: the Portuguese Air Force since 1912 Air Enthusiast No. 73 January/February 1998 p.28
8. Jefford 1988, p. 140