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    the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm located at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, South Ayrshire in Scotland. The facility was previously also known as Royal Naval Air...
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    the airfield. Prestwick has a Royal Navy Air Station, also known as HMS Gannet, where Sea King search and rescue helicopters were stationed until the role...
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    list of naval air stations of the Royal Navy. Naval air stations are shore establishments of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), the branch of the Royal Navy (RN)...
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    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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    (formerly known as RNAS Prestwick, South Ayrshire) HMS Collingwood (Fareham, Hampshire) HMS Dartmouth (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon)...
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    Gannet, operating in the Search and Rescue (SAR) role from Royal Naval Air Station Prestwick, Ayrshire, displayed a Saltire decal on the nose of each aircraft...
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  • first in the Royal Navy to operate a helicopter with passive sonar equipment. 814 NAS relocated from Prestwick to Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose...
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    736 Naval Air Squadron (736 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It was most recently recommissioned at HMS Seahawk, RNAS...
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    colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority. Following World War I, it was significantly...
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  • served in the British Royal Air Force since its formation in April 1918 from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. This is a...
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  • RAF Dundonald (category Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom)
    Royal Air Force Dundonald or more simply RAF Dundonald is a former Royal Air Force station located in South Ayrshire, Scotland, three miles north-east...
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    Royal Naval Air Station Eglinton (RNAS Eglinton, also known as HMS Gannet) was a Royal Navy airbase located 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north east of Eglinton,...
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    Naval Air Squadron 768 Naval Air Squadron 800 Naval Air Squadron 801 Naval Air Squadron 802 Naval Air Squadron 804 Naval Air Squadron 807 Naval Air Squadron...
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  • squadrons: 771 Naval Air Squadron and Gannet SAR Flight based at RNAS Culdrose (HMS Seahawk) and Prestwick (HMS Gannet) respectively. 705 Naval Air Squadron...
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    Airfield RAF Lossiemouth RAF Prestwick Twice a year Exercise Joint Warrior utilises the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Air Force and British Army, in...
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    List of aircraft units of the Royal Navy. List of Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm, Naval Air Wings between 1943 and 1945: 2nd Naval TBR Wing (24 January 1944 -...
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  • RNAS East Haven (HMS Peewit) (category Royal Naval Air Stations in Scotland)
    Royal Naval Air Station East Haven (RNAS East Haven, also known as HMS Peewit) is a former Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm station, situated 3 miles (5 km) south...
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    list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed...
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  • RAF Heathfield (category Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom)
    Royal Air Force Heathfield, or more commonly RAF Heathfield, sometimes known as RAF Ayr/Heathfield due to its proximity to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which...
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    702 Naval Air Squadron (702 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm which last disbanded in August 2014. It was last based at...
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    Some Royal Navy HAS5 ASW variants were adapted for the SAR role and served with 771 Naval Air Squadron, Culdrose and HMS Gannet SAR Flight at Prestwick Airport...
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  • This is a list of stations operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), or stations where RCAF units existed, from 1924 until unification into the...
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  • August 1989 and its aircraft were transferred to 819 Naval Air Squadron at Prestwick. 824 Naval Air Squadron reformed on 2 June 2000 at RNAS Culdrose, equipped...
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  • Command (FONAC), RNAS Yeovilton RNAS Prestwick: 819 Naval Air Squadron (Anti-submarine, Sea King HAS.5) 824 Naval Air Squadron (Anti-submarine, Sea King...
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  • RAF Nutts Corner (category Royal Air Force stations in Northern Ireland)
    Royal Air Force Nutts Corner, or more simply RAF Nutts Corner, is a former Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 2.7 miles (4.3 km) east of Crumlin, County...
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    730 Naval Air Squadron (730 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It was active between 1944 and 1945 as a Communications Squadron...
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    Scotland. Lossiemouth is one of the largest and busiest fast-jet stations in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and known for its close proximity to flight training...
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    771 Naval Air Squadron flew up from their home station of RNAS Culdrose (HMS Seahawk) in Cornwall to perform rescue demonstrations in the Royal Victoria...
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    771 Naval Air Squadron (771 NAS) of the Fleet Air Arm was formed on 24 May 1939 at HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent as a Fleet Requirements Unit with 14 Fairey...
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    781 Naval Air Squadron (781 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm which disbanded at the end of March 1981. Planned as a Reserve...
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