No. 9 Squadron RCAF

No. 9 Squadron RCAF
Active	9 December 1941 - 1 September 1944
Disbanded	1 September 1944
Country	Canada
Allegiance	Canada
Branch	Royal Canadian Air Force
Role	Bomber Reconnaissance
Part of	Western Air Command
Battle honours	Pacific Coast 1941-1944^[1]
Insignia
Unit Codes	KA (1939-1942), HJ (1942)
Aircraft flown
Patrol	Supermarine Stranraer Consolidated Canso Consolidated Catalina

No. 9 Squadron RCAF was a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron active during the Second World War, primarily in an anti-submarine role with Western Air Command and was based at Bella Bella, British Columbia. The squadron flew the Supermarine Stranraer, Consolidated Canso and Consolidated Catalina before disbanding on 1 September 1944.^[2]

References[]

Citations[]

Bibliography[]

Kostenuk, S.; Griffin, J. (1977). RCAF Squadron Histories and Aircraft: 1924–1968. Toronto, ON: Samuel Stevens, Hakkert & Co. p. 31. ISBN 978-0888665775.

Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons

Squadron
numbers

Pre-WWII Squadrons	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 18
100-series squadrons	110 111 112 113 115 116 117 118 119 123 125 127 145 147 160 161 162 164 168
WW2 400-series Article XV squadrons	400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443
WW2 600-series AOP squadrons¹	664 665 666
Post-war squadrons	103 444 445 448 450

Squadron
codes

WW2 Canada

1 August 1939 - May 1942	AY BK BT DM EX FY KA KO LT NA OP OY PB QN RE TM XE YO ZD
Unit formation in 1940 - May 1942	BF GK
Dartmouth Hurricanes 1942	1 or 2
May 1942 - 16 October 1942	AF AN BA BD DE DZ EA FG GA GR HJ JK KL LM LZ NO PQ SZ TF TN UV VD VW YA YH

WW2 Overseas
1940-1946

Operational squadrons	AB AE AL AN AU AW BM BX 2I CI DB DG DH DN EE EQ 5V F3 6U GX G9 HU I8 9G KH KP KW LQ NA ND NH OW PT QB QL QO QY RA RR RU SE SP TH VR VZ WL YI YO YZ ZL ZU Z2
Transport squadrons	OWL² ODM ODN ODO

Post-WW2
1947 - 1958

1947 - 1951 (VCAXX)³	AA AB AC AD AG AH AK AM AN AO AP AQ AT AU AW AX BA BC BN BQ BU
1951 - 1958 (XXnnn)⁴	AF AM AN AP AQ AS AX BA BB BH BQ BR BT BU BV DL FG GW HG HO IG KE KH LP MN NQ PF PR QP QT RX SA SP SV TF UD VN XK

¹Aircraft administered and serviced by the RCAF but manned by the Royal Canadian Artillery.

² Non-standard code as unit using OW added L. Letters normally denoted parent Command, aircraft type (L Liberator transport, D Dakota etc), unit, and individual aircraft.

³ VC

AXX where VC was the civil code used by the RCAF replacing CF-, A was the aircraft ID letter and XX was the unit code

⁴ XX

nnn where XX was the unit code and nnn was the last 3 digits of the serial number. Unit code was replaced with "RCAF" in 1958

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