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The "Defending the Fleet" section of the museum The museum's Fairey Gannet A Bell UH-1C Iroquois at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. The Australian Fleet Air Arm Museum, formerly known as Australia's Museum of Flight, is a military aerospace museum located at the naval air station HMAS Albatross, near Nowra, New South Wales. The museum was opened in ...
The Fleet Air Arm Museum is devoted to the history of British naval aviation. It has an extensive collection of military and civilian aircraft, aero engines, models of aircraft and Royal Navy ships (especially aircraft carriers ), and paintings and drawings related to naval aviation.
The Fleet Air Arm Memorial, sometimes known as Daedalus, is a war memorial in London, commemorating the service of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm from their establishments in 1914 and 1924 respectively, in the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Falklands War and the Gulf War, including over 6,000 killed in all conflicts.
S-2G Tracker N12-153582 (859), ex BuNo 153582 – Fleet Air Arm Museum, HMAS Albatross, Nowra, New South Wales, Australia [3] S-2G Tracker N12-153566 (854), ex BuNo 153566, was on loan to Gippsland Armed Forces Museum , West Sale Airport , Sale, Victoria , Australia [ 5 ] until June 2016.
Fleet Air Arm front-line operations are supported by other airbases with activity at: HMS Gannet, which is a forward operating base of the Fleet Air Arm located at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, South Ayrshire in Scotland, used by detachments of Royal Navy Merlin HM2 helicopters which are deployed from RNAS Culdrose as and when required. [1]
124447 – Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas. [85] F4U-7. 133704 – Currently on display at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in San Diego, California. [86] This aircraft was formerly on display at the USS Alabama Museum. It was heavily damaged in Hurricane Katrina. It was taken apart and sent to the San Diego Air and Space Museum in 2008.
The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the naval aviation component of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN). The FAA is one of five RN fighting arms. [7] As of 2023 it is a primarily helicopter force, though also operating the F-35 Lightning II carrier-based stealth fighter jointly with the Royal Air Force.
No aircraft survives, but the Fleet Air Arm Museum holds a replica Flycatcher that was built in 1977. Registered as G-BEYB, it was flown until 1996, when it was put on static display. It is currently held in the museum's reserve collection, to which the public has only occasional access. [6]