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Awarded:<\/strong> December 1955<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of Wings conjoined in base Or a Quill Pen in pale Azure<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The quill pen represents the reports prepared on new types of aircraft whilst the wings indicate the flying role of its officers.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Nota Bene<\/em> – Take careful note.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed 8 December \u201838 within the CFS as Handling Flight at Upavon to prepare Pilot\u2019s Notes for each new type of aircraft introduced into service. Became Handling Squadron 11 June \u201941 and moved to Boscombe Down on \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12 April \u201954. Remains current.<\/p>\n Sponsored by ex-Leading Air Mechanic (Ordnance) Peter E F Willimont, Fleet Air Arm and A&AEE, Boscombe Down, 1957-58, in Memory of all members of the RAF and FAA who served on Handling Squadron.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: December 1955 Blazon: In front of Wings conjoined in base Or a Quill Pen in pale Azure Link: The quill pen represents the reports prepared on new types of aircraft whilst the wings indicate the flying role of its officers. Motto: Latin: Nota Bene – Take careful note. History: Formed 8 December \u201838 within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6979,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}