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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]
The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter (often called the Beau) is a British multi-role aircraft developed during the Second World War by the Bristol Aeroplane Company.It was originally conceived as a heavy fighter variant of the Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber.
Carrier-borne version of the Gladiator fitted with an arrestor hook. One of the two FAA fighters of World War II in service at the beginning alongside the Blackburn Skua. [1] [2] Blackburn Skua The Skua was a fighter and a dive bomber; one of two fighter aircraft in the FAA at the onset of war, alongside the Gloster Sea Gladiator.
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. All aircraft were delivered from RAF stocks. [2]
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.
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.
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 ...
Historic aircraft display (2021–current) Part of: No. 9 Operational Group RAAF (World War II) Air Force Training Group (current) Current base: RAAF Base Point Cook: Motto(s) Then, Now, Always (2021–current) Engagements: World War II: Commanders; Notable commanders: John Balmer (1942–1943) Aircraft flown; Bomber: Bristol Beaufort (1942–1946)