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Beauforts first saw service with Royal Air Force Coastal Command and then the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm from 1940. They were used as torpedo bombers, conventional bombers and mine-layers until 1942, [ 3 ] when they were removed from active service and were then used as trainer aircraft until being declared obsolete in 1945. [ 4 ]
Beaufighter Mk.XXI A8–186 – Built in Australia in 1945, A8–186 saw service with No. 22 Squadron RAAF at the very end of World War 2. After spending some years on a farm in New South Wales, it was bought in 1965 by the Camden Museum of Aviation, a private aviation museum at Camden Airport, Sydney Australia. It was restored using parts ...
Bristol Beaufort. The Beaufort was derived from a medium bomber and was used by the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 until the end of the war. The Beauforts operated could use both torpedoes and bombs and lay naval mines. [30] [31] Beaufighter TF.X at RAF Museum with examples of its armament. Bristol Beaufighter
On 1 April 1924 the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force was created as a distinct component of the RAF, which existed until 24 May 1939 when command of the Fleet Air Arm was transferred back to Royal Navy control. Coastal Command patrol aircraft, including most large seaplanes, remained with the RAF despite their operations in a naval environment.
B Squadron of the Navy Air Forces operated 15 TF.X aircraft acquired by Portugal, delivered during March and April 1945. Next two aircraft were delivered in 1946 after overhaul by Bristol company. Next two aircraft were delivered in 1946 after overhaul by Bristol company.
Fleet Air Arm [1] 728 Naval Air Squadron operated Beauforts between October 1944 and September 1945. 733 Naval Air Squadron operated Beauforts between February 1944 and June 1945. 762 Naval Air Squadron operated Beauforts between March 1944 and March 1946. 788 Naval Air Squadron operated Beauforts between early 1945 and June 1945.
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798 Naval Air Squadron formed at HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, on 11 October 1943, to provide aircrew conversion courses. [3] It was titled as an Advanced Conversion Course, and was initially equipped with both single and twin-engined aircraft, [2] including Fairey Barracuda, which was a British single-engined carrier-borne torpedo and dive bomber, Bristol Beaufighter, a British twin ...