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No. 440 "City of Ottawa" Transport Squadron (Vampire) is a unit of the Canadian Forces under the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is part of 17 Wing and Joint Task Force North located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Based at Yellowknife Airport and operating throughout Northern Canada, the unit's primary role is to provide support to the Canadian Forces, including the Canadian Rangers and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, with search and rescue as a secondary role. The squadron operates four CC-138 DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft that can flown on tundra tires, skis or floats.

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  • 440 Transport Squadron
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  • No. 440 "City of Ottawa" Transport Squadron (Vampire) is a unit of the Canadian Forces under the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is part of 17 Wing and Joint Task Force North located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Based at Yellowknife Airport and operating throughout Northern Canada, the unit's primary role is to provide support to the Canadian Forces, including the Canadian Rangers and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, with search and rescue as a secondary role. The squadron operates four CC-138 DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft that can flown on tundra tires, skis or floats.
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Garrison
  • Canadian Forces Northern Area Headquarters Yellowknife
Commander
  • LCol Desmond Brophy
Branch
command structure
  • 17(xsd:integer)
Country
  • Canada
Caption
  • A 440 Squadron Twin Otter in Cambridge Bay
Dates
  • 1968(xsd:integer)
Unit Name
  • 440(xsd:integer)
garrison label
  • Headquarters
battle honours
  • Arnhem
  • Rhine
  • Aleutians 1942-43
  • Fortress Europe 1944
  • France and Germany 1944-45
  • Normandy 1944
Equipment
  • 4(xsd:integer)
Website
  • 440(xsd:integer)
Motto
  • "He who protects the Saguenay"
  • Ka Ganawaitak Saguenay
abstract
  • No. 440 "City of Ottawa" Transport Squadron (Vampire) is a unit of the Canadian Forces under the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is part of 17 Wing and Joint Task Force North located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Based at Yellowknife Airport and operating throughout Northern Canada, the unit's primary role is to provide support to the Canadian Forces, including the Canadian Rangers and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, with search and rescue as a secondary role. The squadron operates four CC-138 DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft that can flown on tundra tires, skis or floats. The squadron was founded in the 1930s as an army cooperation squadron. It was for a time an air defence squadron from the start of the Second World War before moving to the UK. There it equipped as a fighter-bomber squadron under RAF operational control. It supported the ground campaign through Northwest Europe until the end of the war.
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