Supermarine Spitfire. European Users, part four. Denmark & Spitfire Danish pilots in World War 2.

 

Although there was not a Danish squadron in the Royal Air Force (RAF), there were some Danish pilots serving with the No.234 Squadron of the RAF as the Dane community in England raised funds to buy three Spitfires, to be piloted by Aksel Svendsen, Jorgen Thalbitzer and others. 
There were Danish pilots serving with the No.234 Squadron until the end of the war and it was the closes thing to a pure Danish squadron serving with the Royal Air Force.

The Spitfire also served with the Royal Danish Air Force after the war. During the year 1947 Denmark bought three Spitfire PR.XI (the reconnaissance version of the Spitfire Mk.IX) plus forty-five Spitfire Mk.IX, among them, four airframes for teaching purposes. 
Initially all of them were assigned to the Royal Danish Naval Aviation (Marinens Flyvevaesen), where a special unit called Spitfire Group  was formed at Kastrup Air Base  in August 1947 for pilot training. In January 1948 that unit was moved to Karup airport where it operated until autumn as the Spitfire School. From June 1948 the Spitfire formed the II Luftflotille (2nd Air Flotilla).

Every Spitfire was transferred to the 4th and 5th Squadrons (Eskadrille) of the Danish Army Aviation (Haerens Flyvertropper) until the Royal Danish Air Force was funded (Flyvevabnet) on 1st October 1950, and were passed to 722 and 725 Squadrons (Eskadrille). The first Eskadrille, 722, operated both Spitfire Mk.IX and the PR.XI from January 1951 until 1955 when it was decided to turn the squadron into a SAR unit equipped with helicopters. The Eskadrille 725 operated the Mk.IX only from May to September 1951. 

Sources:

1st https://www.danishww2pilots.dk/articles.php?article=40

2nd  AJ-Press - Monografie Lotnicze 40 - Supermarine Spitfire Part 3 (translated)

3rd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Danish_Air_Force

4th https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskadrille_722 (translated)

5th https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire#Operators