No. 5 Squadron RAAF

No. 5 Squadron RAAF
A Boomerang aircraft operated by No. 5 Squadron in 1944
Active	June 1917 – May 1919 April 1936 – December 1938 January 1941 – October 1946 May 1964 – December 1989
Country	Australia
Branch	Royal Australian Air Force
Role	Training (1917–1919) Naval co-operation (1936–1938) Army co-operation (1941–1946) Utility helicopter (1964–1989)
Engagements	World War I World War II Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation
Commanders
Notable commanders	Beau Palmer (1945)[1]
Aircraft flown
Fighter	Farman Shorthorn Airco DH.6 Avro 504 Sopwith Pup SE5a Sopwith Camel Sopwith Snipe CAC Wirraway CAC Boomerang P-40 Kittyhawk
Helicopter	UH-1 Iroquois AS350B Squirrel
Patrol	Supermarine Seagull

No. 5 Squadron was a Royal Australian Air Force training, army co-operation and helicopter squadron. The squadron was formed in 1917 as a training unit of the Australian Flying Corps in Britain, readying pilots for service on the Western Front. It subsequently became a naval fleet co-operation squadron, but was later redesignated as No. 9 Squadron RAAF before being re-formed as an army co-operation squadron during World War II. In the mid-1960s, it was re-formed as a helicopter squadron, before being disbanded in December 1989, when it was used to form the Australian Defence Force Helicopter Training School.