On November 1, 2011, No.78 Squadron based at RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, celebrated its 95th anniversary. As part of its commemorative celebrations, one of the squadron's Merlin HC3s received a temporary 'makeover', consisting of tiger stripes (as featured in the unit's crest) and the squadron's famous 'EY-' codes, the first time they have been applied to its aircraft since 1949, when it flew Dako Mk IVs.
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