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No. 16 Squadron RNAS This page was last edited on 3 October 2020, at 08:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...
Personnel of No 1 Squadron RNAS in late 1914. The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 [1] to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force (RAF), the world's first independent air force.
Historically, RNAS referred to the Royal Naval Air Service, which was the aviation branch of the Royal Navy. This merged in 1918 with the Royal Flying Corps, of the British Army, to form an independent service, the Royal Air Force (RAF). Currently the abbreviation RNAS stands for "Royal Naval Air Station", and in common with Royal Air Force ...
Four Sea Harrier FA2s of 801 Naval Air Squadron, based at RNAS Yeovilton, are shown flying in formation Royal Navy Merlin HM2 on HMS Illustrious McDonnell Douglas F-4K Phantom FG1 of 892 Naval Air Squadron. This is a List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons.
Hawker Hunter GA.11, XF300, formerly of 764 NAS. 764 Naval Air Squadron (764 NAS) was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It initially formed in April 1940, at HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, as an Advance Seaplane Training Squadron.
The squadron was equipped with Supermarine Seafire L Mk III fighter aircraft. 1772 Naval Air Squadron was a Two-Seater Fighter Squadron that re-embarked on HMS Indefatigable on 18 November 1945. The squadron disembarked from the ship on 22 December 1945 and re-embarked on 31 January 1946. The squadron was equipped with Fairey Firefly I aircraft.
750 Naval Air Squadron (750 NAS) is a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN) which provides training for both Royal Navy Observers and Royal Air Force (RAF) Weapon Systems Officers (WSOs) in managing navigation, communication systems, and weapon control, to enable them to lead operations in Fleet Air Arm helicopters and Royal Air Force Intelligence ...
1 Aircraft in squadron use. 2 Prototypes and other minor aircraft. 3 Airships. 4 Unmanned aerial vehicles. 5 List of weapons of the Royal Naval Air Service.