page_title: No. 601 Squadron RAF
section_title: Notable pilots
hierarchical_section_title: No. 601 Squadron RAF / Notable pilots
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to 601 (County of London) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Airforce at the site of the former RAF Hendon airfield - now the Royal Air Force Museum. Inscription reads "601 (County of London) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Airforce RAF Hendon's longest serving squadron"
context_page_description: Number 601 Squadron is a squadron of the RAF Reserves, based in London. The squadron battle honours most notably include the Battle of Britain, and the first Americans to fly in the Second World War were members of this squadron. Reactivated in 2017, it is a specialist squadron "tapping into the talents of leaders from industry, academia and research to advise and shape and inspire [the RAF]".
context_section_description: Sqn Ldr Roger Bushell – took part in the Great Escape
  Sqn Ldr Gordon "Mouse" Cleaver DFC – Battle of Britain pilot whose accident aided the development of artificial optical lenses.
  Flt Lt Carl Davis DFC – American who flew with 601 Sqn during the Battle of Britain
  Plt Off "Billy" Fiske – American who flew with 601 Sqn during the Battle of Britain
  Gp Cpt Sir Archibald Philip Hope, 17th Baronet OBE DFC
  Plt Off B P Legge DFC
  Plt Off H C Mayers DSO DFC  – Australian who flew with 601 Sqn during the Battle of Britain
  Gp Cpt J A O'Neill
  Fg Off W H Rhodes-Moorhouse DFC
  Sqn Ldr "Jack" Riddle & Sqn Ldr Hugh Riddle – brothers and last surviving aircrew who flew with 601 Sqn during the Battle of Britain (both died 2009)
  Sqn Ldr Stanislaw Skalski DSO, DFC and Two Bars,- Polish ace, the second Pole to command an RAF Squadron, and later Polish Air Force general
  Air Cdre Whitney Straight CBE MC DFC
  Plt Off D R W Stubbs OBE DSO DFC
  For more pilots who flew with the Squadron during the Battle of Britain, see List of RAF aircrew in the Battle of Britain.
caption: Memorial to 601 Squadron at RAF Museum Hendon
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