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It includes Air Stations, Air Sections, Air Maintenance & Repair Yards, Lodger units at RAF bases, and training establishments. The bases are listed alphabetically, by geographical location. 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 ...
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.
RNAS Kingsnorth was a First World War Royal Navy air station for airships, initially operating as an experimental and training station, it later moved on to large scale production of airships. It also provided anti-submarine patrols.
RNAS Longside is a former Royal Naval Air Service airship station located 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of Longside, Aberdeenshire and 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of Hatton, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was constructed in 1915 and was operational from 1916 until 1920 when the extensive buildings were demolished.
His Majesty's Airship No. 1 "Mayfly" His Majesty's Naval Airship No. 2 (Willows No. 4) No. 9r; 23 class airship; R23X class airship; R.29; R31 class airship; R33 class airship; Astra-Torres airship; SS class airship; SSP class airship; SST class airship; SSZ class airship; Coastal class airship; C Star class airship; NS class airship
HMS Dipper RNAS Henstridge, Somerset, 1943-1958; HMS Fulmar RNAS Lossiemouth Lossiemouth, Moray 1946 -1972; HMS Godwit RNAS Hinstock, Shropshire, 1942–1947; HMS Goldcrest, three naval air stations were commissioned as Goldcrest, RNAS Angle, RNAS Dale and RNAS Brawdy, in Pembrokeshire, Wales; HMS Heron II 1942-1948, RNAS Charlton Horethorne ...
RNAS Anglesey was commissioned on 26 September 1915, when it was operated by 14 Group RNAS, operating SS18, an SS class airship, which was later joined by airships SS22, SS24 and SS25. The station had in a large airship hangar , 120 by 318 feet (37 m × 97 m) long, workshops, hydrogen gas production sheds and accommodation huts.
RNAS Pulham (later RAF Pulham) was a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) airship station, near Pulham St Mary, 18 mi (29 km) south of Norwich, England. Though land was purchased by the Admiralty in 1912 the site was not operational until 1915. From 1918 to 1958, the unit was a Royal Air Force establishment. The land today is in private ownership ...