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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.
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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.
Toggle List of weapons of the Royal Naval Air Service subsection. 5.1 Armoured Cars. 5.2 Machine guns. 5. ... Aircraft in squadron use. AD Flying Boat - 29 built [1 ...
List of Westland Sea King HAS.5, HU.5 and HAS.6 helicopter flights between 1990 and 2017, (these are for autonomous single aircraft units, not detachments from squadrons): [20] A Flight (active 10 December 1989 - disbanded 31 August 1998)
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 ...
755 Naval Air Squadron reformed at RNAS Colombo Racecourse (HMS Bherunda), in the Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 24 March 1945, as a Communications Squadron. It was equipped with Beech Expeditor C.2 , a twin-engined trainer , transport and utility aircraft , which it operated in the communications role throughout its existence. 755 ...
The squadron formed at RNAS Worthy Down on 9 October 1939, from the remnants of 811 and 822 squadrons that had survived the sinking of their carrier HMS Courageous in September 1939, with Fairey Swordfish aircraft. [4] The squadron disbanded in November 1939 but reformed the same month. [4]