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| 429 Transport Squadron | |
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| Active | 1942–1945 1967–2005 2007–current |
| Country |  Canada |
| Branch |  Royal Canadian Air Force |
| Current base | CFB Trenton |
| Nickname | "Bisons" |
| Motto | "FORTUNAE NIHIL" (Nothing to chance) |
| Mascot | Bison |
| Battle honours | English Channel and North Sea 1943-1945, Baltic 1943-1945, Fortress Europe 1943-1944, France and Germany 1944-1945, Biscay Ports 1943-1944, Ruhr 1943-1944, Berlin 1943-1944, German Ports 1943-1944, Normandy 1944, Rhine, Biscay 1943-1944, Afghanistan[1] |
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| Identification symbol | Argent on a mount Vert a Bison Gules hoofed and horned Or the head lowered |
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| Bomber | Vickers Wellington Handley Page Halifax Avro Lancaster |
| Transport | DouglasCC-129 Dakota De Havilland CanadaCC-115 Buffalo LockheedCC-130 Hercules transport CC-177 Globemaster III |
429 Transport Squadron of theRoyal Canadian Air Force is one of four squadrons attached toCFB Trenton inTrenton, Ontario. The squadron was originally formed as abomber squadron of theRoyal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) attached toRAF Bomber Command during theSecond World War.
The squadron was formed on 7 November 1942 as the 429 (Bomber) Squadron RCAF with No 4 Group atRAF East Moor, but reassigned toNo. 6 Group shortly after and disbanded on May 31, 1946.[2] The squadron moved toRAF Leeming in 1943.
The current transport role was established atRCAF Station St Hubert on August 21, 1967, as429 Tactical Transport Unit and in August 1981 renamed429 Transport Squadron and moved toCFB Winnipeg. The final move was in 1990 to8 Wing in Trenton, Ontario. 429 Squadron was disbanded in 2005.
Two years later in August 2007, 429 Squadron was again re-activated, this time operating the CC-177 Globemaster III strategic transport aircraft. It used these new aircraft in support of Canada's operations in Afghanistan.
Aircraft used by 429 Sqn include:
World War II
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1Aircraft administered and serviced by the RCAF but crewed by theRoyal Canadian Artillery. 2 Non-standard code as unit using OW added L. Letters normally denoted parent Command, aircraft type (LLiberator transport, DDakota etc), unit, and individual aircraft. 3 VC .svg) XXA where VC was the civil code used by the RCAF replacing CF-, XX was the unit code and A was the aircraft ID letter4 XX nnn where XX was the unit code and nnn was the last 3 digits of the serial number. Unit code was replaced with "RCAF" in 1958 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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