HMS Flycatcher was a stone frigate name for the Royal Navy's headquarters for its Mobile Naval Air Bases which supported their Fleet Air Arm units. Flycatcher...

Dohrn's flycatcher or Dohrn's thrush-babbler, in the warbler genus Sylvia HMS Flycatcher, a former UK military base. Fly-killing device Flycatcher (comics)...

base is notable for having previously served as both a Royal Navy (as HMS Flycatcher) and a Royal Air Force (as RAF Middle Wallop) controlled airfield, as...

torpedo bombers. Commissioned as HMS Urley (Manx for Eagle) by the Admiralty on 21 June 1944, with accounts handled by HMS Valkyrie, flying recommenced on...

Mobile Naval Airfields Organisation. Ludham was then commissioned as HMS Flycatcher, RNAS Ludham on 4 September 1944 under the command of the Senior Officer...

became known as Royal Naval Air Station Ford, (RNAS Ford) and commissioned as HMS Peregrine, with Captain (A) R. de H. Burton as the initial Royal Navy commanding...

renamed RNAS Eastleigh (HMS Raven), and spent most of the war in a ground and air training role for the Royal Navy. Due to the 'HMS' designation in the airports...

(RNAS Grimsetter). On 15 August, it was commissioned as HMS Robin, as a satellite to RNAS Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk), located 1 mi (1.6 km) to the north west...

navy ships and bases are given ship names and Abbotsinch's was known as HMS Sanderling since June 1940. During the 1950s, the airfield housed a large...

Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose (RNAS Culdrose, also known as HMS Seahawk; ICAO: EGDR) is a Royal Navy airbase near Helston on the Lizard Peninsula of...

World War II military airfield which was operated by the Fleet Air Arm as HMS Nuthatch. John Laing & Son began building an airfield at Anthorn for the...

and Royal Air Force (RAF) stations with a Royal Navy presence. HMS Gannet HMS Seahawk HMS Heron Predannack Airfield RNAS Merryfield RAF Marham - 809 Naval...

for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm airfield at Burscough, HMS Ringtail, being given the name HMS Ringtail II. After a period of inactivity, Woodvale reopened...

Yeovilton, commonly referred to as RNAS Yeovilton, (IATA: YEO, ICAO: EGDY) (HMS Heron) is an airbase of the Royal Navy, sited a few miles north of Yeovil...

Lossiemouth (HMS Fulmar) (1945-72) Ludham (HMS Flycatcher) (1944-45) Lympne (HMS Buzzard & HMS Daedalus II) (1939-40) M Machrihanish (HMS Landrail) (1941-46...

HMS Gannet is a forward operating base of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm located at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, South Ayrshire in Scotland. The facility...

from the RAF to the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) on 2 July 1946 and became known as HMS Fulmar II. On transfer of the station, No. 111 OTU and No. 1674 HCU disbanded...

1945 the airfield began a period of use by the Royal Navy, commissioned as HMS Pintail but was returned to RAF control in April 1946. The following Royal...

transferred to the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) and became known as RNAS Lossiemouth or HMS Fulmar. Lossiemouth was used as a training station by the FAA until it was...

1917 on the western edge of Portland Harbour as HMS Sarepta. From 1959 the station shared the name HMS Osprey, the anti-submarine establishment based at...

helicopter landing spots spread across the site on the taxiways. RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) — parent station of RNAS Merryfield "Merryfield (Isle Abbotts)". Airfields...

Centre. It was known as RNADC Kete (HMS Harrier) and was located on the coast, 1 mile (2 km) south of RNAS Dale (HMS Goldcrest), and 0.25 miles (0 km) north...

HMS Courageous, where 16 Flycatchers served alongside 16 Blackburn Ripons and 16 reconnaissance aircraft. Very popular with pilots, the Flycatchers were...

Royal Naval Air Station Culham (RNAS Culham, also known as HMS Hornbill) was a former Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm station near Culham, Oxfordshire. It opened...

different times, embarking on the aircraft carriers HMS Ark Royal, HMS Eagle, HMS Hermes and HMS Victorious. In 1967 RNAS Brawdy was used by 736 NAS and...

was designated a Royal Naval Air Station as "H.M.S. Corncrake", and Kirkistown Airfield was known as "H.M.S. Corncrake II". The following units were here...

engines. Each were initially assembled at the MONAB Headquarters at HMS Flycatcher (first at Ludham then Middle Wallop in the UK). When the naval threat...

HMS Fieldfare also known as R.A.F. Landing Ground Novar, then RNAS Evanton and later as RAF Evanton, is a disused airfield in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland...

Naval Air Station Bramcote, (RNAS Bramcote), and when commissioned became HMS Gamecock. When it subsequently transferred to the British Army from the Admiralty...

50°50′07″N 1°11′30″W / 50.83528°N 1.19167°W / 50.83528; -1.19167 HMS Collingwood is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy, in Fareham...