No. 4 Squadron RAF

No. IV Squadron RAF
No. IV Squadron RAF
	No. IV Squadron badge
Active	16 Sept 1912 – 1 April 1918 (RFC); 1 April 1918 – 31 August 1945 (RAF); 1 Sept 1945 – 31 Dec 1960; 1 Jan 1961 – 31 March 2010; 1 April 2010 – 28 January 2011; 24 November 2011 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Flying training squadron
Role	Advanced fast jet flying training
Part of	No. 4 Flying Training School RAF
Home station	RAF Valley
Motto(s)	In futurum videre; (Latin for 'To see into the future')
Aircraft	BAE Systems Hawk T2
Battle honours	Western Front (1914–1918), Mons (1914), Neuve Chappelle (1915), Somme (1916), Ypres (1917), Lys (1918), Somme (1918), France and Low Countries (1939–1940), Fortress Europe (1942–1944), France and Germany (1944–1945), Normandy (1944), Arnhem (1944), Rhine (1944–1945), Bosnia (1995), Iraq (2003)* Honours marked with an asterisk may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard
Insignia
Squadron badge heraldry	A sun in splendour divided per bend by a flash of lightning. Approved by King Edward VIII in May 1936. The red and black segmented sun suggests round-the-clock operations, while the lightning flash is a reference to the unit's early use of wireless telephony for artillery co-operation.
Squadron roundel

No. 4 Squadron, normally written as No. IV Squadron,^[2] is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. Since November 2011, it has operated the BAE Hawk T2 from RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales.^[3] The squadron provides weapons and tactics training for student pilots after they have completed their conversion to jet aircraft with No. XXV(F) Squadron.^[4] Between 1970 and January 2011, No. IV Squadron operated various marks of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier and British Aerospace Harrier II.

^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 108. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
^ "Royal Air Force". Royal Air Force.
^ "IV Squadron Royal Air Force are Re-Born". www.raf.mod.uk. RAF. 24 November 2011. Archived from the original on 30 November 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
^ "XXV (Fighter) Squadron". Royal Air Force. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

[1] Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 108. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.

[2] "Royal Air Force". Royal Air Force.

[hawk-3] "IV Squadron Royal Air Force are Re-Born". www.raf.mod.uk. RAF. 24 November 2011. Archived from the original on 30 November 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2011.

[4] "XXV (Fighter) Squadron". Royal Air Force. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

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No. IV Squadron RAF
No. IV Squadron badge
Active	16 Sept 1912 – 1 April 1918 (RFC) 1 April 1918 – 31 August 1945 (RAF) 1 Sept 1945 – 31 Dec 1960 1 Jan 1961 – 31 March 2010 1 April 2010 – 28 January 2011 24 November 2011 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Type	Flying training squadron
Role	Advanced fast jet flying training
Part of	No. 4 Flying Training School RAF
Home station	RAF Valley
Motto(s)	In futurum videre (Latin for 'To see into the future')^[1]
Aircraft	BAE Systems Hawk T2
Battle honours	Western Front (1914–1918), Mons (1914), Neuve Chappelle (1915), Somme (1916), Ypres (1917), Lys (1918), Somme (1918), France and Low Countries (1939–1940), Fortress Europe (1942–1944), France and Germany (1944–1945), Normandy (1944), Arnhem (1944), Rhine (1944–1945), Bosnia (1995), Iraq (2003)* Honours marked with an asterisk may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard
Insignia
Squadron badge heraldry	A sun in splendour divided per bend by a flash of lightning. Approved by King Edward VIII in May 1936. The red and black segmented sun suggests round-the-clock operations, while the lightning flash is a reference to the unit's early use of wireless telephony for artillery co-operation.
Squadron roundel