661 Squadron

Helicopters

Reformed as an Army Air Corps squadron on 24 Nov 1969 at Detmold.

Reformed on 1 Mar 1978 by renumbering 657 Squadron.

During the first half of 2001, maintained a detachment from Gutersloh, of 2x Lynx AH.9 at Sarajevo.

661 was Recce Sqn and only flew Gazelle helicopters. When I arrived in 1984 Major Walsh was OC and in 95 we did a 6 month tour of NI at Aldergrove.

Locations

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C/N	Version	Built	In this Org	In other Org
f.9649	ah.1	1966	XT643 : 661 Sq; 660 Sq
1177	ah.1	1974	XW896 : AAC; 1975 661Sqn. : present at Ahlhorn Air Show
1318	ah.1	1975	XX398 : AAC Gazelle AH.1 built by Westland.; 661Sqn.
107	ah1	1979	XZ203 : AAC; 1992 type:Lynx AH7 653Sqn.; 1997 671Sqn./Z; 1998 671Sqn.; 2000 671Sqn+
138	ah1	1979	XZ216 : AAC in 1987 653Sqn. ; 2000 type:AH7 661Sqn.
1682	ah.1	1977	XZ338 : AAC Gazelle AH.1 built by Westland; 1998 661Sqn.	XZ338 - G-CHZF MAAW-H23
1698	ah.1	1977	XZ343 : 661 Sq, visited RAF Bruggen 28 Jul 1999
285	ah1	1983	ZD276 : 652 Sq; 661 Sq; 656 Sq; 671 Sq; 655 Sq	ZD276 ZD276
320	ah7	1985	ZE376 : 661Sqn. Tag der Heeresflieger
328	ah7	1987	ZE382 : w/o 09sep04 in Czech Rpublic, 661Sqn AH.9 type

Operations

Dates		Operation
may-13	sep-13	Operation Herrick
jan-01	02-dec-04	SFOR (stabilisation force)
21-mar-92	20-dec-95	UNPROFOR
dec-90	mar-91	Operation Desert Shield/Storm

1943 to present