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No. 1 Flight AAC

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ60749479 ↗
Source-derived summary

No. 1 Flight AAC was an independent flight within the British Army's Army Air Corps. It was formerly No. 1 Reconnaissance Flight AAC and before that No. 1901 Air Observation Post Flight RAF

Aircraft operated:

Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP.12

Westland Sioux AH.1

Westland Scout AH.1

de Havilland Canada Beaver AL.1

Britten-Norman Islander AL.1

See also

List of Army Air Corps aircraft units

References

Bibliography

Chappel, M; Ripley, T (1993). Security forces in Northern Ireland (1969–92). Osprey. ISBN 0-85130-164-9.

Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife.

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“No. 1 Flight AAC” enters the record as military unit. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Flight, military and unit can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 1993, 1969, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Flight, military and unit.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q60749479. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901, 1993, 1969 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “No. 1 Flight AAC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.