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Carrier-borne version of the Gladiator fitted with an arrestor hook. One of the two FAA fighters of World War II in service at the beginning alongside the Blackburn Skua. [1] [2] Blackburn Skua The Skua was a fighter and a dive bomber; one of two fighter aircraft in the FAA at the onset of war, alongside the Gloster Sea Gladiator.
On 1 April 1924 the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force was created as a distinct component of the RAF, which existed until 24 May 1939 when command of the Fleet Air Arm was transferred back to Royal Navy control. Coastal Command patrol aircraft, including most large seaplanes, remained with the RAF despite their operations in a naval environment.
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. [citation needed]
Vultee XA-41 - Prototype ground attack aircraft; Culver PQ-8/A-8 - Radio-controlled target aircraft; Culver PQ-14 Cadet - Radio-controlled target aircraft; Curtiss A-12 Shrike - Attack bomber; Curtiss XA-14/Curtiss A-18 Shrike - Attack bomber; Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Jeep - Advanced twin-engine pilot trainer; Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando - Transport
A Grumman Martlet/Wildcat preserved at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Martlet I undergoing preservation at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. Airworthy FM-2. 86690 - Restored to flight in 2022 by the Aircraft Restoration Company at Imperial War Museum Duxford. Crashed 6/7/2023 at Heveningham Hall. [4] [5]
Established on 1 April 1924, the Fleet Air Arm included all Royal Air Force aircraft that were deployed from aircraft carriers and other naval vessels. On 24 May 1939, the administrative management of the Fleet Air Arm, which serves as the naval aviation branch of the Royal Navy , was transferred from the Royal Air Force to the Admiralty as a ...
Beauforts first saw service with Royal Air Force Coastal Command and then the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm from 1940. They were used as torpedo bombers, conventional bombers and mine-layers until 1942, [3] when they were removed from active service and were then used as trainer aircraft until being declared obsolete in 1945. [4]
In early 1939, an order was placed for 247 aircraft to meet operational requirement OR.65. The prototype aircraft, serial number P5998, first flew on 8 October 1939 from Luton Airport, [1] and the type was put into production for the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. The prototype was tested as an emergency bomber during 1940 but that idea was abandoned ...