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An aircraft handler is a member of the Aircraft Handling branch in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces. Aircraft Handlers are responsible for the safe movement, launching (taking off) and recovering (landing) of all aircraft on board ships within the Royal Navy and some of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary .
It was known as the School of Aircraft Handling until November 1995, when the officer unit in Dorset joined. The whole site was at Gosport until 1957, and moved again in November 1959 to Cornwall. It included Naval Air Command Fire School. The current site officially opened in October 1995. [1] First night-time trials in September 2018
The current squadron was created on 6 Dec 2001 from the Royal Naval Flying Training Flight. It operates the Grob Tutor, with its primary role to provide grading assessment and for Royal Navy and Royal Marine pilots prior to further flying training. It also supports the Royal Navy's "Flying Start" flying scholarship scheme.
A dummy deck laid out to practise aircraft handling and manoeuvring in a confined space. The Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations provides professional training for all naval aircraft handlers. The school also trains other Navy personnel and personnel from the RAF and Army who will be involved in operating aircraft at sea.
The Ministry of Defence procured a number of Beechcraft B200 aircraft in 2003, five operated by contractor Cobham Aviation Services, to supply rear crew training for the Royal Navy with 750 NAS at RNAS Culdrose, while seven aircraft operated by Serco with 45 Squadron at RAF Cranwell train both multi-engine aircrew and rear seat aircrew officers ...
744 Naval Air Squadron (744 NAS) is a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It was originally established in 1943 in Nova Scotia and has undergone various re-designations and reformations throughout its history.
Royal Air Force 15 July 1936 – 24 May 1939 Royal Navy 24 May 1939 – 21 January 1940 7 March - 24 June 1945 7 May 1947 – present: Country United Kingdom: Branch Royal Navy: Type: Fleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron: Role: Basic helicopter flying training: Part of: Fleet Air Arm and No.1 Flying Training School: Home station: RAF Shawbury ...
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 ...