page_title: No. 511 Squadron RAF
section_title: Post-war 1: On Yorks and Hastings
hierarchical_section_title: No. 511 Squadron RAF / History / Post-war 1: On Yorks and Hastings
caption_attribution_description: English: Handley Page Hastings C.2 WJ338 of 511 Squadron RAF at Manchester Airport in 1952
context_page_description: No. 511 Squadron was a Royal Air Force transport squadron, active during World War II, the Berlin Airlift and during the sixties and early seventies. It operated, during its three periods of existence, aircraft such as the Douglas Dakota, the Avro York, the Handley Page Hastings and the Bristol Britannia.
context_section_description: Within a few days (16 October 1946) the squadron was formed again as an Avro York operator based at RAF Lyneham. It continued to fly the long-distance routes to India and the Far East until, like a lot of transport squadrons, it became involved in the Berlin Airlift.
  The squadron was then re-equipped with the Handley Page Hastings in September 1949 and in 1957 the squadron moved to join other operators of the Hastings at RAF Colerne. A year later the squadron disbanded when it was re-numbered to 36 Squadron on 1 September 1958.
caption: Hastings C.2 of No. 511 Squadron at Manchester Airport in 1952.
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