De Havilland Vampire. Part Twenty. British users, part eight.

 

The de Havilland Vampire is a British jet fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft company. It was the second jet fighter to enter service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and was used by many squadrons through the 1950s until its usage went gradually down until it was replaced by more modern types, namely the de Havilland Venom or, in some cases, the Hawker Hunter.

Some of those squadrons were the following ones:

• No. 3 Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit: This unit employed some outdated Vampire FB.9s at RAF Exeter. 
• No.5 Flying Training School: This formation unit employed the T.11 (together with some T.5 - the advanced trainer variant of the FB.5) from June 1954 until March 1962 when they were replaced by the Vickers Varsity. The initial aim of the unit was to convert trainee pilots to jet aircraft.
• No. 19 Squadron: This squadron, officially equipped with the Gloster Meteor, employed some T.11 during the late 1950s.
• No. 43 Squadron: The China-British Squadron employed some T.11 trainers when stationed at RAF Fife, Scotland. For some time they were shared with No.151 Squadron.
• No. 62 Squadron: Apparently this unit had in service some T.11 trainers before it was reformed as a pure missile unit. 
• No.151 Squadron: This unit used the T.11 at Scotland, shared with the No.43 Squadron for a brief period of time.
• No.219 Squadron: When this unit transitioned to the de Havilland Venom NF.2 (The night fighter variant of the Venom), they employed some T.11s as trainers during the year 1958.
• Royal Air Force Flying College: The RAF Flying College at Cranwell employed some outdated FB.9 as advanced trainers during the late 1950s.
• Central Flying School: The Central Flying School employed some T.11 trainers during the 1960s and into the early 1970s.

Some Royal Navy units employed the type as well, like the Flag Officer Flying Training or various station flights like RNAS Lossiemouth or RNAS Brawdy, among others, which employed the Sea Vampire T.22 (the naval trainer variant of the regular T.11) well into the 1960s.

Sources:

1st https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Vampire

2nd Hall Park Books - Warpaint 27 - De Havilland Vampire

3rd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._5_Flying_Training_School_RAF

4th https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Flying_School