In this section, there are a number of short articles and other links relating to the Hawk era. Please click on the photographs below to access the articles.
Click on the image on the right to view a gallery of photographs of 208 Squadron’s record-breaking 100-Sortie Day on 21 July 2003.
The Gwen Jackson Trophy
Click on the picture on the right to read 208 Squadron’s ‘Valley Wings’ article for June and July 2003.
100-Sortie Day
Click on the picture on the left to read an article entitled ‘Flying High’ about Flying Officer Juliette Thurston and her equine expertise that appeared in the Anglesey Daily Post on 16 July 2003.
208 Squadron & the Hawk 2003
Click on the image on the left to view a gallery of photographs of 208 Squadron and the Hawk aircraft in August 2003.
Click on the picture on the right to view the BBC One Wildlife on One Documentary ‘Peregrine – Nature’s Top Gun’, featuring 208 Squadron, that was first aired on Wednesday 23 July 2003.
Peregrine - Nature’s Top Gun
‘Valley Wings’ June / July 2003
Click on the picture on the left to read about the extraordinarily altruistic presentation of the Gwen Jackson Trophy, which was first awarded to student pilots on 208 Squadron on 16 May 2003.
The 100-Sortie Day
Click on the picture on the left to read an account of 208 Squadron’s record-breaking 100-sortie day on 21 July 2003, that was first published in the RAF News on 8 August 2003
