No. 2 Squadron RAAF

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2 Squadron
Active	1916 -
Branch	RAAF
Role	Airborne Warning and Control System
Part of	Surveillance & Response Group, 42 Wing
Base	RAAF Base Williamtown
Motto	"Consilio et manu"
Aircraft flown
Electronic warfare	Boeing Wedgetail

No. 2 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force squadron. The Squadron was first formed in 1916 at Heliopolis, Egypt^[1] and is currently being re-formed to operate Boeing 737 AEW&C aircraft procurred as part of Project Wedgetail from RAAF Base Williamtown and RAAF Base Tindal.

The Squadron heavily involved (as a fighter squadron) during the Battle of Cambrai in the First World War and as a bomber squadron in the Second World War and Vietnam War.

In the later years of the Canberra bomber's RAAF operations it was predominately used for target towing and aerial mapping.

2 Squadron operated the Canberra aircraft at RAAF Amberley (west of Brisbane, Qld) until 1982.

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^ "2 Squadron — Australian Flying Corps of World War I". Retrieved on August 1, 2006.

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Serny, France, November 1918. A score board recording the claims for enemy aircraft destroyed by No. 80 Wing RAF from July-November 1918. The squadrons listed are: No. 2 Squadron, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), No. 88 Squadron RAF, No. 92 Squadron RAF, No. 103 Squadron RAF, No. 46 Squadron RAF, and No. 54 Squadron RAF. The other columns are headed "In Flames", "Crashed", "O.O.C." (Out of Control), "Driven Down" and "Balloons Destroyed"."

Royal Australian Air Force flying squadrons

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Empire Air Training Scheme squadrons 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 466 467
Joint Netherlands-Australian squadrons No. 18 (NEI) No. 119 (NEI) No. 120 (NEI)