RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, has welcomed the first four Chinook helicopters for the new Chinook and Puma Operational Conversion Unit (OCU). In total, six helicopters will move to the base from the Chinook Operational Conversion Flight (OCF) at RAF Odiham, Hampshire, where they will join the Puma OCF to form the new unit under the 28 Sqn banner. The two remaining helicopters are due to arrive early next year. Previously, 28 Squadron had been an RAF Merlin HC3 unit at Benson, but on July 9 this year the unit handed over its Merlins to 845 Naval Air Squadron as part of the transfer of all RAF examples to the Royal Navy. It then became the combined Chinook and Puma OCU, officially becoming operational as such on October 21.
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