The Royal Air Force operated across all the globe for the duration of the Second World War. Northern Ireland provided many members of air and ground crew.
1 AFU
10 RS
10 Squadron
100 Squadron
R.A.F. 100 Squadron reformed on 15 December 1942 at R.A.F. Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England flying as part of No. 1 Group of R.A.F. Bomber Command.
102 Squadron
103 Squadron
104 Squadron
108 Squadron
11 AFU
11 OTU
110 Squadron
114 Squadron
115 Squadron
120 Squadron
13 OTU
131 OTU
1404 Meteorological Flight
1428 Hudson Conversion Flight
1435 Squadron
144 Squadron
145 Squadron
149 Squadron
15 Squadron
150 Squadron
153 Squadron
158 Squadron
160 Squadron
161 Squadron
1647 HCU
1653 CU
1655 MTU
1658 HCU
166 Squadron
1661 HCU
1666 HCU
1673 HCU
1674 HCU
190 Squadron
2 AFU
201 Squadron
207 Squadron
On 1st November 1940, R.A.F. 207 Squadron reformed as part of Bomber Command flying Avro Manchester planes before converting to the Avro Lancaster in 1942.
208 Squadron
21 Squadron
216 Squadron
218 Squadron
220 Squadron
221 Squadron
224 Squadron
226 Squadron
23 Squadron
231 Squadron
233 Squadron
235 Squadron
24 Squadron
245 Squadron
248 Squadron
25 OTU
25 Squadron
250 Squadron
256 Squadron
26 OTU
263 Squadron
267 Squadron
27 OTU
2738 Squadron
28 Squadron
29 OTU
290 Squadron
299 Squadron
304 FTU
309 Squadron
315 Squadron
36 Squadron
40 Squadron
405 (Vancouver) Squadron RCAF
41 Squadron
420 Squadron
422 Squadron
428 Squadron
43 Squadron
44 Squadron
48 Squadron
49 Squadron
5 OTU
50 Squadron
R.A.F. 50 Squadron reformed at R.A.F. Waddington, Lincolnshire, England on 3rd May 1937. They operated throughout the Second World War as a bomber squadron.
501 Squadron
502 Squadron
On 30th July 1942, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Z9192 came down in Cornwall and 3 Ulstermen in the A.A.F. with R.A.F. 502 (Ulster) Squadron died as a result.
51 Squadron
514 Squadron
515 Squadron
53 Squadron
56 OTU
57 Squadron
58 OTU
58 Squadron
R.A.F. 58 Squadron flew from Yorkshire, England when they flew one of the first leaflet drop missions of the Second World War on 3rd-4th September 1939.
59 Squadron
6 AACU
6 SFTS
602 Squadron
603 Squadron
61 Squadron
610 Squadron
615 Squadron
617 Squadron
624 Squadron
625 Squadron
640 Squadron
66 Air School
7 FTS
7 OTU
7 Squadron
75 Squadron
76 Squadron
77 Squadron
78 Squadron
83 Squadron
86 Squadron
88 Squadron
9 Squadron
R.A.F. 9 Squadron suffered some of the earliest losses in the Second World War when Flight Sergeant Borley's Wellington went down on 4th September 1939.