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No. 6 Squadron Royal Air Force

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Summary

No. 6 Squadron Royal Air Force is a Q140794949[1]. It draws 450 Wikipedia views per month (royal air force squadron category, ranking #2 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United Kingdom[3]
  • Item operated: Eurofighter Typhoon[4]
  • Headquarters location: RAF Lossiemouth[5]
  • Military branch: Royal Air Force[6]
  • Has use: quick reaction alert[7], interceptor[8], air defense[9]
  • Commons category: No. 6 Squadron RAF[10]
  • Inception: January 1, 1914[11]
  • Participated in conflict: World War I[12], World War II[13], Cold War[14]
  • Nickname: The Flying Canopeners[15]
  • Motto text: Oculi Exercitus[16]

Why It Matters

No. 6 Squadron Royal Air Force is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Air Forces Monthly. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Air Forces Monthly. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · Militum professio scriniarii · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use → quick reaction alert, interceptor, air defense
    Item operated → Eurofighter Typhoon
    Headquarters location → RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Leuchars, RAF Coningsby +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'en', 'es', 'he']
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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