Chosen to commemorate many years of service in North-West India, the markhor being a mountain goat frequenting the Khyber Pass.

The squadron's initial pilot officers included Harold Balfour and Peter Portal, later Under-Secretary of State for Air and Chief of the Air Staff respectively,[4] while Robert Smith-Barry, later to revolutionise British pilot training, was a flight commander and (from July to December 1916), the squadron's commanding officer.

[5] After suffering heavy losses during the Battle of the Somme, the squadron re-equipped with Nieuport Scouts and soon acquired a first-class reputation for itself.

Twenty-six flying aces served in the squadron during the war; notable among them were:[6] Reformed at Lahore in India from the disbanded No.

[13] The squadron had suffered heavily at the hands of the advancing Japanese forces and was declared non-operational and moved to Asansol, India along with No.

McLuckie shot down Japanese ace Lt Colonel Tateo Katō who commanded the Sentai and damaged two other Ki-43s.

[14] On 30 March 1943 an English-Argentinian from Estancia Dos Hermanos, Los Pinos, Richard (Ricardo) Campbell Lindsell, who had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, was appointed squadron leader.

During one month in 1944 the squadron completed 728 sorties and also received considerable praise for the accuracy of its bombing by allied ground troops.

[3] By the time Gloster Meteor NF.14 night-fighters arrived in October 1959, the unit had returned to RAF Tengah in Singapore.

On 3 September 1964, an Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashed into the Straits of Malacca while trying to evade interception by a Javelin FAW.9 of No 60 Squadron.

[17] On 3 February 1969, the Royal Air Force Communications Squadron based at RAF Wildenrath in Germany was retitled No.

60 Squadron and the unit found itself flying ancient Percival Pembroke transports until more modern Hawker Siddeley Andover arrived in 1987.

While they were widely used as transport aircraft by the RAF, their true function along that particular route was known only to a few within military and intelligence circles.

These were subsequently analyzed by photo intelligence and imagery experts, who recorded any changes in the Warsaw Pact forces facing the West.

Alterations in the order of battle, appearance of new equipment and movement of military units were all items of great interest.

60 disbanded at Wildenrath on 1 April 1992, but reformed two months later on 1 June 1992 at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire with Westland Wessex HC.2 helicopters.

[22] As of 1 April 2018, the squadron began transitioning to the Juno helicopter as part of 9 Regiment Army Air Corps and DHFS in order to provide Advanced and Tactical Rotary Wing training to both pilots and crewmen, prior to their postings to Operational Conversion Units.