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Training in spotting and reconnaissance at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), Hampshire, was undertaken from February 1944 and the squadron used Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft until these could be replaced by ten Supermarine Seafire L Mk.III, in March. [1]
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.
Ninety-four of those sorties were flown in the first three days. The senior aviator from Tuscaloosa was killed when his Spitfire was hit by flak on 6 June. Flak was responsible for most of the eight VOS-7 Spitfires destroyed by combat damage; but their pilots survived, as did the pilot of a ninth Spitfire destroyed in a non-combat accident.
The squadron reformed again at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), Hampshire, on 15 February 1944, again equipped with Supermarine Seafire. Following the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, the squadron was employed as part of RAF Second Tactical Air Force 's air spotting pool, spotting for Allied artillery bombardments as well as ...
887 Naval Air Squadron (887 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, [2] which last disbanded during March 1946. It was formed as a Fleet Fighter squadron in May 1942 at HMS Daedalus, RNAS, Lee-on-Solent.
It reformed in 1944 at HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, as a Twin Engine Conversion Unit, but immediately moved to HMS Goldcrest, RNAS Dale, where it operated a variety of multi engined aircraft. At the end of 1945 the squadron moved to HMS Sparrowhawk , RNAS Halesworth and HMS Peregrine , RNAS Ford in quick succession.
754 Naval Air Squadron formed out of the School of Naval Cooperation RAF to become part of No. 2 Observers School, at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), in Hampshire, on 24 May 1939. [2] It was initially equipped with Fairey Seafox I, a ship-borne reconnaissance floatplane , Supermarine Walrus I, an amphibious maritime patrol aircraft and ...
No. 26 Squadron arrived at Lee-on-Solent at the end of April, operating with Supermarine Spitfire Vb [33] and was joined by the Supermarine Spitfire Va aircraft of No. 63 Squadron at the end of May [34] and the British single-seat fighter-bomber Hawker Typhoon Ib equipped, No. 1320 ('Abdullah') Flight. [35]