In this section, there are a number of short articles and other links relating to the Hawk era. Please click on the photographs below to access the articles.
Click on the picture on the right to read about Wing Commander Chris Kidd who succeeded Wing Commander Nick Gatenby on 1 May 2015 to become the 59th CO of Naval Eight / 208 Squadron.
Letter from the Squadron - 2015
Click on the picture on the left to read Wing Commander Nick Gatenby’s final ‘Letter from the Squadron’ to the Naval Eight / 208 Squadron Association in 2015.
Double Graduation
Click on the picture on the left to read an account of a visit by a Swiss Air Force Pilatus PC-21 Basic Training Squadron to RAF Valley to work with 208 (Reserve) Squadron to gain experience of operating from a foreign, maritime environment.
Swiss Air Force
Exercise TARTAN SPHINX
Click on the picture on the left to read about the double clebration in June 2015 when fast jet trainee pilots from both IV(R) and 208(R) Squadrons graduated on the same day.
Click on the picture on the right to read an account of Exercise TARTAN SPINX - 208 (Reserve) Squadron’s week-long detachment to RAF Lossiemouth.
Click on the picture on the right to read 208 Squadron’s ‘Valley Wings’ article for September 2015, including Exercise TARTAN SPHINX and the visit by the Swiss Air Force (opens in a new window).
Valley Wings September 2015
Click on the picture on the left for a gallery of photographs by Tom & Jack Williams of JTW Aviation Images of 208 Squadron night flying in September 2015.
