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It is located on RNAS Yeovilton airfield, and the museum has viewing areas where visitors can watch military aircraft (especially helicopters) take off and land. At the entrance to the museum are anchors from HMS Ark Royal and HMS Eagle , fleet carriers which served the Royal Navy until the 1970s.
The station operates over 100 aircraft, and is staffed by around 1675 service and 2000 civilian personnel, including Ministry of Defence (MOD) employees and permanent contractors. Training of aircrew and engineers of resident aircraft types is also carried out at RNAS Yeovilton.
HMS Dipper RNAS Henstridge, Somerset, 1943-1958; HMS Fulmar RNAS Lossiemouth Lossiemouth, Moray 1946 -1972; HMS Godwit RNAS Hinstock, Shropshire, 1942–1947; HMS Goldcrest, three naval air stations were commissioned as Goldcrest, RNAS Angle, RNAS Dale and RNAS Brawdy, in Pembrokeshire, Wales; HMS Heron II 1942-1948, RNAS Charlton Horethorne ...
761 Naval Air Squadron formed, on 1 August 1941, at RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) near Yeovil, Somerset. [3] It was formed out of 760 Naval Air Squadron's Fairey Fulmar, a carrier-based reconnaissance/fighter aircraft and tasked as the Advanced Training Squadron of the Fleet Fighter School, and it used RNAS Haldon (HMS Heron II) for air firing practice. [4]
The squadron was recommissioned several times over the next decade, operating as an anti-submarine unit equipped with Fairey Gannets, and seeing service in the Korean War. [3] [11] During this period, they spent time operating off HMS Ocean. It then re-formed at RNAS Culdrose on 16 August 1960, equipped with Whirlwind HAS.7s.
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The squadron moved to RNAS Yeovilton in September 1958 where it later disbanded in July 1961. [ 5 ] The Squadron carried on trials of de Havilland Sea Vixens on HMS Victorious and HMS Centaur during 1958 and from October 1959 formed at Yeovilton with the Saunders Roe P.531 to investigate what would be needed to introduce a whole new form of ...
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