652 Squadron RAF, a unit of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and afterwards in Germany.

652 Squadron was formed at RAF Old Sarum, Wiltshire, on 1 May 1942 and went into action in Normandy on 7 June 1944 in support of the British Second Army and the Operation Overlord landings.

Most of its pilots and observers came from the British Army, while maintenance was carried out by RAF personnel.

The squadron's motto was Latin: Sive aere sive campo(Translation: "In the air and in the field"),[1] for an identification symbol it had "In front of wings conjoined in base, a gun barrel fesswise"[1] and for a identification symbol it used XM (Sep 1946–1951)[3][4] 'C' Flight, No.

Between 1966 and October 1969 the unit was employed as 1 Division Army Aviation HQ.