Aurora trains at Culdrose

ROYAL NAVAL Air Station Culdrose, Cornwall, hosted an unusual visitor in January – Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140M Aurora 140112. During its deployment, the RCAF’s 415 Long Range Patrol Squadron from 14 Wing Greenwood worked alongside the Royal Navy in exercise areas in the Southwest Approaches, using the callsign ‘Swordfish 30’. The visitors’ training included joint missions with one of Culdrose’s resident Merlin HM2 squadrons, giving trainee naval aviators the chance to experience a very different type of aircraft. Bob