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No. 3 Squadron SLAF

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Active
  
1970's - 1980's

Role
  
Maritime patrol

Engagements
  
Sri Lankan Civil War

Branch
  
Sri Lanka Air Force

Station
  
SLAF China Bay

No. 3 Maritime Squadron is a maritime patrol squadron of the Sri Lanka Air Force. It was disbanded in the late 1980s and it aircraft taken over by the No. 8 Light Transport Squadron.

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Aircraft operated

Year of introduction

  • Cessna Skymaster - 1978
  • Beechcraft Super King Air - 1986

    • Notable members

  • Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonatilake, RWP & BAR, VSV, USP, ndc, psc, SLAF - current Commander of the Air Force

    • References

    No. 3 Squadron SLAF Wikipedia
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