Unit Name: | 355th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron Croatian: 355. izviđačka avijacijska eskadrila |
Dates: | June 20, 1958 – 1968 |
Branch: | Yugoslav Air Force |
Type: | Squadron |
Role: | Reconnaissance |
Command Structure: | 172nd Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment |
Garrison: | Zemunik |
Disbanded: | 1968 |
The 355th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron (Serbo-Croatian: Croatian: 355. izviđačka avijacijska eskadrila / 355. извиђачка авијацијска ескадрила) was an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force established on June 20, 1958, as 16th Reconnaissance Squadron of Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Serbo-Croatian: Croatian: 16. izviđačka eskadrila protivavionske avijacije/ 16. извиђачка ескадрила противавионске авијације).
Squadron was formed as reconnaissance, but its main role was pulling of aerial targets for the training of School Center of Anti-Aircraft Artillery at Zadar. It was equipped with British-made de Havilland Mosquito aircraft. By 1962 it was reequipped with US-made Lockheed TV-2 Shooting Star jet-trainer aircraft equipped for aerial reconnaissance.[1]
Squadron was renumbered by order from May 12, 1964, in to 355th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron, being an independent squadron for short time. In 1965 it was assigned to 172nd Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment.
It was disbanded in 1968.[2]