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815 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron flying the AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA.2 helicopter and is the Navy's front line Wildcat Naval Air Squadron. The squadron is based at RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) in Somerset .
WMF comprises two Squadrons: [1] a frontline Maritime Interdiction and Small Ship's Flights Squadron, 815 Naval Air Squadron, [5] and a training and conversion Squadron, 825 Naval Air Squadron. [10] First operational Martlet missile in the Bay of Bengal as part of the Carrier Strike Group 21 Deployment. 815 NAS
Numbers 700-749 were for catapult flights and squadrons, but eventually these all merged into 700 Naval Air Squadron, leaving Numbers 701-710 for amphibian and floatplane squadrons from 1943 onwards. Numbers 750-799, were assigned for training and ancillary squadrons ( in contrast to the RAF practice at the time of not assigning squadron ...
List of Westland Lynx HAS.2, HAS.3 and HMA.8 helicopter flights since 1977, (parented by 700L Naval Air Squadron from July 1977, then by 702 Naval Air Squadron on formation in January 1978, then by 815 Naval Air Squadron on formation in January 1981.
HMS Defender with a Westland Lynx HMA.8 from 815 Naval Air Squadron (815 NAS) on board - (October 2014 - December 2014) and (December 2015 and July 2016). With a AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA2 from 815 Naval Air Squadron (815 NAS) on board - (August 2019 - March 2020)
825 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Naval Air Squadron which was re-commissioned on 10 October 2014 and currently flies the AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA2. [1] It was a carrier-based squadron that was formed on 8 October 1934 from the aircraft and personnel of 824 Naval Air Squadron. [2]
Upon the completion of the work, 815 Naval Air Squadron flew its 12 Westland Whirlwinds to the new Portland Heliport on 14 April 1959. [2] The station was formally commissioned as HMS Osprey on 24 April 1959. [2] For the next 40 years RNAS Portland was one of the busiest air stations on the south coast.
[6] [2] [11] [8] The flight observer was Lieutenant Jenny Lewis, 25, also a British citizen and one of three women in the forty-strong 815 Naval Air Squadron. [6] [11] Lewis had been in the Navy for four years, previously serving on HMS London and HMS Northumberland. [11] Her family was from the Isle of Wight, [8] and she lived in Sherborne. [9]