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0–9. No. 1 Squadron RNAS; No. 201 Squadron RAF; No. 2 Squadron RNAS; No. 202 Squadron RAF; No. 3 Squadron RNAS; No. 203 Squadron RAF; No. 4 Squadron RNAS
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.
764 Naval Air Squadron reformed as a non-flying squadron at HMS Sultan, in October 2008, as the Initial Training Squadron, as part of the Royal Naval Air Engineering & Survival School (RNAESS), within the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE) to simulate a squadron environment [2] for training of Air Engineer Officers', Air ...
201 Flight (active 1 May 2014 - present) [note parented by 700W Naval Air Squadron between 1 May 2014 and 1 August 2014], then 825 Naval Air Squadron. 202 Flight (active October 2016 - present) parent 815 Naval Air Squadron. 204 Flight (active 1 November 2015 - present) parent 825 Naval Air Squadron.
820 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier-based squadron flying the AgustaWestland Merlin HM2 in Anti-Submarine and Airborne Early Warning (AEW) roles from RNAS Culdrose. The Squadron was formed at RNAS Gosport on 3 April 1933 with the transferral of the Fairey III aircraft from 450 Flight and half of 445 Flight of the Fleet ...
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 ...
The squadron formed at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), situated near Lee-on-the-Solent in Hampshire, approximately four miles west of Portsmouth, on 10 February 1943 (). [1] However, as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan , the squadron moved to RN Air Section Yarmouth , located in Yarmouth County , Nova Scotia , Canada ...
730 Naval Air Squadron was formed on the 17 April 1944 at RNAS Abbotsinch (HMS Sanderling) [4] located in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in Scotland, where the squadron operated Stinson Reliant, a single-engine four-to-five seat high-wing monoplane liaison and training aircraft, and Beech Expediter II, a twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft, used for training, transport and utility work.