No. 490 (NZ) Squadron was an anti-submarine and maritime reconnaissance squadron of Coastal Command established for service during the Second World War. It was a New Zealand squadron formed under Article XV of the Empire Air Training Plan. Although many of its flying personnel were drawn from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the squadron served under the operational and administrative command of the Royal Air Force.
No. 490 Squadron RNZAF
A group of No. 490 Squadron personnel in front of a Consolidated Catalina flying boat at Jui, near Freetown, June 1943
A Short Sunderland of No. 490 Squadron with some crew standing on the top of the fuselage waiting for the refueling barge while on the Gambia River
Article XV squadrons were Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand air force squadrons formed from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (1939) during World War II.
A bomber crew from No. 462 Squadron RAAF in September 1942. While the squadron was officially a unit of the Royal Australian Air Force, only the man third from the right was Australian; the others are from Britain, Newfoundland and New Zealand
Aircrew and groundcrew of a No. 428 Squadron RCAF Lancaster bomber.
Hurricane night fighter pilots from No. 486 Squadron at RAF Wittering in 1942
