The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the naval aviation component of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN). The FAA is one of five RN fighting arms. As of 2023[update]...
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The Fleet Air Arm Museum is devoted to the history of British naval aviation. It has an extensive collection of military and civilian aircraft, aero engines...
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of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). On 1 April 1918 the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was merged with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to form the Royal Air Force...
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The Fleet Air Arm (FAA), known formerly as the Australian Navy Aviation Group, is the division of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) responsible for the...
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This is a list of all the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm groups that were either formed or planned. There were Carrier Air Groups which administered squadrons...
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Vice-Admiral Sir Philip Vian in charge of air operations by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA). The fighting end of the fleet was referred to as Task Force 37...
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The Fleet Air Arm Memorial, sometimes known as Daedalus, is a war memorial in London, commemorating the service of the Royal Naval Air Service and the...
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This is a List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons, squadrons in Bold Type are currently active in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. Squadrons in underline...
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Naval Air Arm is the aviation branch and a fighting arm of the Indian Navy which is tasked to provide an aircraft carrier-based strike capability, fleet air...
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losses: 2 Army Air Corps 4 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron Royal Marines 17 Fleet Air Arm Passengers 1 Royal Air Force 18 Special Air Service (Army) 3...
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Australian Fleet Air Arm Museum, formerly known as Australia's Museum of Flight, is a military aerospace museum located at the naval air station HMAS Albatross...
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Brize Norton". 11 October 2022. "Royal Air Force's newest aircraft fleet reaches full-service capability". Royal Air Force. Retrieved 4 October 2022. Cartlidge...
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total production, were delivered to the Fleet Air Arm. FG-1A and FG-1D (called Corsair Mk IV by the Fleet Air Arm): This was the designation for Corsairs...
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It was the first aircraft of this type operated by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) to be fabricated entirely from metal. The Barracuda was developed...
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manufacturer Fairey Aviation. It was primarily operated by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA) during the Second World War. The Albacore, popularly known as...
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a range of obsolescent and stop-gap aircraft being operated by the Fleet Air Arm. Development of the Sea Fury proceeded, and the type entered operational...
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service with the Fleet Air Arm from 1954 to 1958. Wyverns equipped 813 Squadron, 827 Squadron, 830 Squadron and 831 Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm. In September...
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native to the British Isles. The Fulmar served with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) during the Second World War. The design of the Fulmar was based...
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1958. The first production Wessex HAS1 were delivered to Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) in early 1960; the Wessex was the first helicopter operated by...
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twin boom-tailed, two-seat, carrier-based fleet air-defence fighter flown by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm from the 1950s to the early 1970s. The Sea...
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cantilever monoplane aircraft, as well as the first dive bomber in Fleet Air Arm (FAA) service. The aircraft took its name from the sea bird which 'divebombs'...
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Over 350 IIIFs were operated by the Fleet Air Arm, making it the most widely used type of aircraft in Fleet Air Arm service between the wars and also the...
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principal British air power arm, the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm and the British Army's Army Air Corps also operate armed aircraft. The Royal Air Force was formed...
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portions of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations to be operated by the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). The Gannet was originally developed to meet a Second World War...
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Battle honours for the Fleet Air Arm were initially awarded to naval air squadrons from action during the Second World War. One additional one, 'East...
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been purchased by the U.S. Navy, the French Navy and the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA) had ordered the Wildcat, with their own configurations, via the...
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This list deals specifically with aircraft of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) during World War II. The FAA operated aircraft from Royal Navy ships...
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Blackburn Buccaneer (category Air refueling)
Rolls-Royce Spey jet engines, in 1965. The Buccaneer S.2 would be the first Fleet Air Arm (FAA) aircraft to make a non-stop, unrefuelled crossing of the Atlantic...
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Junglies"". Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum. Fleet Air Arm Museum. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017. Air International May...
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RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) (redirect from Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton)
active Fleet Air Arm bases, the other being RNAS Culdrose. RNAS Yeovilton is currently home to the Royal Navy Wildcat HMA2, along with Army Air Corps Wildcat...
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