No. 87 Squadron RAF
Dates Aircraft Variant Notes
1917-1919 Sopwith Dolphin Single-engined piston biplane fighter
1937-1937 Hawker Fury II Single-engined piston biplane fighter
1937-1938 Gloster Gladiator I Single-engined piston biplane fighter
1938-1942 Hawker Hurricane I Single-engined piston monoplane fighter
1941-1944 Hawker Hurricane IIC
1943-1944 Supermarine Spitfire IX , VB , VC VIII Single-engined piston monoplane fighter
1944-1946 Supermarine Spitfire IX
1952-1957 Gloster Meteor NF11 Twin-engined jet night fighter
1957-1961 Gloster Javelin FAW1 Twin-engined jet fighter
1958-1960 Gloster Javelin FAW5
1959-1961 Gloster Javelin FAW4
Aircraft
A Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin of No.87 Squadron in France , 1918 - the squadron 's `` lazy-S '' unit insignia of that time is painted in white . No . 87 CO Sqn Ldr Dennis Smallwood , DFC , in his Hurricane IIC , in early 1942 . [ 10 ]
No. 87 Squadron RAF was an aircraft squadron of the Royal Air Force during the First World War and Second World War.