MEDIA NOX MERIDIUS NOSTER-- MIDNIGHT IS OUR MOON
BATTLE HONOURS
       THE DEFENCE OF BRITAIN  1941 -44 ,FORTRESS EUROPE 1942 -44 .,         FRANCE AND GERMANY 1944 -45 ,RHINE AND NORMANDY 1944.
COLD WAR SQUADRON
     #409 NIGHTHAWK  WAS A NIGHT FIGHTER SQUADRON DURING W W II.  REFORMED AFTER THE WAR AS #409 AW/F (ALL WEATHER FIGHTER) SQD. NOVEMBER 1 ,1954. AND WAS EQUIPPED WITH THE CF-100 CANUCK.  409 WAS BASED OUT OF COMOX,B.C. AND FLEW CF-100 ON NORTH AMERICAN AIR DEFENCE (NORAD) AND LATER WAS EQUIPPED WITH CF-101 VOODOO. IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES 409 WAS RE-EQUIPPED WITH CF-18 HORNETS BUT WAS STOOD DOWN AS AN ACTIVE SQUADRON AND EQUIPMENT WAS PUT IN STORAGE BECAUSE OF DEFENCE BUDGET REDUCTIONS....... TODAY #409  IS INACTIVE.
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