Blazon: A Retriever’s head erased Sable carrying a Pheasant
Link: This unit has adopted as its badge the head of a retriever which suggests devotion to duty; carrying a pheasant indicates the unit’s functions in bringing in crashed aircraft
Date of Issue: January 1948
Motto: Latin: Deicta reparamus – We retrieve (or repair) what has been cast down
History: Formed as No 5 Salvage Unit at Tollerton in September 1939, becoming No 60 Maintenance Unit in October 1939 and disbanded at Leconfield on 30 November 1976
Sponsored by members and their families of No. 60 MU when commanded by Group Captain Geoffrey Tyler, OBE, and supported by his wife Diana (1972-1975)