It continued to train but the RAF had decided to use the Vickers Vimy in the long-range bombing role so the squadron was disbanded.

Within a few months it had moved into the newly opened RAF Leconfield in Yorkshire.

With the start of the war the squadron moved to RAF Abingdon and it was disbanded on 6 April 1940 when it was absorbed into No.

It did not wait to see action and two-days after forming, on 29 January, the squadron was part of raid on Lorient.

1 Group Bomber Command and converted to the Avro Lancaster in September 1943.