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Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent, (RNAS Lee-on-Solent; or HMS Daedalus 1939–1959 & 1965–1996 and HMS Ariel 1959–1965), is a former Royal Naval Air Station located near Lee-on-the-Solent in Hampshire, approximately 4 miles (6.44 km) west of Portsmouth, on the coast of the Solent.
The charity stated this was because the airfield owners, Fareham Borough Council, had been unable to offer them a viable replacement to their current hangar, Belman 4, from which they had been served eviction notice for. On 31 May 2018, exactly 69 years to the day of the centre's formation, the last 'pure' glider flight from Lee-on-the-Solent flew.
HMS Daedalus was a naval air station, also known as RNAS Lee-on-Solent. The base was opened in 1917 and transferred to the RAF in 1918. It was returned to the successor of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Fleet Air Arm, in 1939. It and various out-stations bore the name HMS Daedalus between 1957 and 1996.
HMS Daedalus II was a British Royal Navy air station and training establishment between 1940 and 1946. The name applied to four different locations with the United Kingdom at various times during the Second World War. The establishment was formed to free up space at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus).
764 Naval Air Squadron (764 NAS) was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It initially formed in April 1940, at HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, as an Advance Seaplane Training Squadron.
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A loaded Fairey Barracuda torpedo bomber taxi-ing at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) Key to the types of establishments: BCAS - British Commonwealth Air Station; MONAB - Mobile Naval Air Base; RAF - Royal Air Force; RAAF - Royal Australian Air Force; RCAF - Royal Canadian Air Force; RNAS - Royal Naval Air Station; RNAY - Royal Naval Air Yard
776 Naval Air Squadron formed at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), Hampshire, England, on 1 January 1941, as a Fleet Requirements Unit. [3] It initially operated with three Bristol Blenheim, a twin-engine light bomber, and several Blackburn Roc, a naval turret fighter aircraft, some of which of the latter were detached to R.N. Air Section Speke, Liverpool, England, on 22 March 1941, while a ...