page_title: No. 207 Squadron RAF
section_title: Bombing role
hierarchical_section_title: No. 207 Squadron RAF / History / Post-war / Bombing role
caption_attribution_description: Vickers Valiant V Bomber at Bristol Filton Airport, southwest England. Date unknown, though clothing fashions and automobile suggests early 1960s. Photographed by Adrian Pingstone and released to the public domain.
context_page_description: Number 207 Squadron is an historic bomber squadron and, latterly, a communications and flying training squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was announced on 5 July 2017 that No. 207 Squadron will again reform to become the Operational Conversion Unit for the UK F-35B Lightning Force and will return to RAF Marham in Norfolk where it was last based in 1965. No. 207 Squadron arrived at RAF Marham with six F-35Bs on 16 July 2019 before officially standing up on 1 August.
context_section_description: After moving to RAF Mildenhall in 1949 and briefly replacing the Lancaster with the Avro Lincoln, the Squadron was disbanded on 1 March 1950. Re-formed on 4 June 1951 at RAF Marham, No. 207 Squadron flew the Boeing Washington B.1 until March 1954, when it was replaced by the English Electric Canberra, which remained in service with the squadron until it disbanded on 27 March 1956.
   On 1 April 1956, the squadron re-formed again at RAF Marham and was now equipped with the Vickers Valiant B.1. In October the same year, No. 207 Squadron deployed to RAF Luqa, Malta, to take part in the Suez Campaign, flying 11 sorties over Egypt between October and November. On 1 May 1965, the squadron disbanded with the grounding of the Valiant fleet.
caption: Vickers Valiant B.1 of No. 207 Squadron at Filton Airport, Bristol, in the 1960s.
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