page_title: No. 87 Squadron RAF
section_title: Aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: No. 87 Squadron RAF / Aircraft
caption_attribution_description: English: A Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricane Mark IIC (s/n BE500, 'LK-A', "United Provinces Cawnpore") being flown by Squadron Leader Dennis Smallwood, the Commanding Officer of No. 87 Squadron RAF based at RAF Charmy Down, Somerset (UK). No. 87 Squadron was one of the first RAF night fighter squadrons. Sqn Ldr Smallwood led the squadron in 1941-42, when most intercepts were made entirely without on-board radar. The aircraft is painted in an overall black scheme known in the RAF as "Special Night". BE500 subsequently served with No. 533 Squadron RAF and finally in the Far East.
context_page_description: No. 87 Squadron RAF was an aircraft squadron of the Royal Air Force during the First World War and Second World War.
caption: No. 87 CO Sqn Ldr Dennis Smallwood, DFC, in his Hurricane IIC, in early 1942.
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