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Royal Air Force Worthy Down or simply RAF Worthy Down is a former Royal Air Force station built in 1918, 3.5 miles (6 km) north of Winchester, Hampshire, England.After it was transferred to Royal Navy control in 1939 as Royal Naval Air Station Worthy Down (RNAS Worthy Down, or HMS Kestrel), the airfield remained in use throughout the Second World War and then housed a RN Air Electrical School ...
Three rocket-armed Fairey Swordfish of 774 NAS during a training flight from RNAS St. Merryn. 774 Naval Air Squadron (774 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm which last disbanded in August 1945. 774 Naval Air Squadron formed at HMS Kestrel, RNAS Worthy Down, in November 1939 as an Armament Training Squadron for Observers and TAGs.
HMS Kestrel was a Royal Naval Air Station and General Service Establishment at Worthy Down, near Winchester. It was commissioned in 1939 after being transferred from the Royal Air Force , and was paid off in 1948, before being recommissioned as a General Service Establishment.
755 Naval Air Squadron operated from a number of naval air stations of the Royal Navy, in England, the Channel Islands and overseas in Sri Lanka: [3] 1939 - 1944. Royal Naval Air Station Worthy Down (HMS Kestrel) (24 May 1939 - 31 October 1944) Royal Naval Air Station Jersey Detachment (11 March 1940 - 31 May 1940) disbanded - (31 October 1944 ...
Percival Proctor, of the type used by 756 NAS. 756 Naval Air Squadron (756 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.It was initially formed as a Telegraphist Air Gunner Training Squadron, operating from May to August 1939, out of RNAS Worthy Down (HMS Kestrel), in Hampshire, England.
Grumman F6F Hellcat in FAA markings, an example of the type used by 757 NAS. 757 Naval Air Squadron (757 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.It was first formed as a Telegraphist Air Gunner Training Squadron in 1939, operating out of RNAS Worthy Down (HMS Kestrel), but after three months it went into abeyance, only to reform again in the same role, at the same ...
763 Naval Air Squadron (763 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA). It formed in 1939 as the Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance Pool No. 1 , at HMS Kestrel , RNAS Worthy Down.
On 21 August 1945, 734 Naval Air Squadron moved from RNAS Worthy Down to RNAS Hinstock (HMS Godwit), located in Hinstock, Shropshire, England, [6] however, it operated out of RNAS Hinstock's satellite airfield, RNAS Peplow (HMS Godwit II), also located in Shropshire, [7] which was a former Royal Air Force bomber airbase, with long runways, that ...