No. 663 Squadron Army Air Corps

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No. 663 Squadron Army Air Corps is a flying unit of the British Army Air Corps (AAC) which was reformed as 663 Aviation Squadron in October 1969 at Netheravon Wiltshire to support army formations in the Salisbury Plain area. On 1 January 1973 it was renamed No. 663 Squadron Army Air Corps. The Squadron again disbanded in July 1977.

Following a restructuring of Army Air Squadrons, 660 Squadron was redesignated as 663 Squadron, part of 3 Regiment Army Air Corps. From 1993 it has been based at the ex RAF Wattisham Airfield near Stowmarket, Suffolk. In recent years it has replaced its Westland Gazelles with Westland-assembled Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.

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• http://www.army.mod.uk/aac/units/3_regiment_aac/663_squadron/index.htm