|
RNAS Belfast
Royal Air Force Sydenham or more simply RAF Sydenham is a former Royal Air Force station in Northern Ireland. In the 1970s it was the main servicing base for Blackburn Buccaneer aircraft, employing 650 civilian workers.Northern Ireland Committee of Irish Congress of Trade Unions, "The Defence Stations in Northern Ireland: The Case for Retention", March 1976 History The following units were posted here at some point: ;Royal Air Force * No. 88 Squadron RAF * No. 226 Squadron RAF ;Units * No. 3 Civilian Fighter Control Co-operation Unit RAF (March 1957 – June 1958) * Detachment of No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF (1943) * No. 8 Ferry Pilots Pool ATA (March 1941 – May 1942) became No. 8 Ferry Pool ATA (May 1942 – August 1945) * No. 13 Air Experience Flight RAF * No. 23 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School RAF (September 1939) * No. 24 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School RAF (January – September 1939) became No. 24 Elementary Flying Tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensign Of The Royal Air Force
Ensign most often refers to: * Ensign (flag), a flag flown on a vessel to indicate nationality * Ensign (rank), a navy (and former army) officer rank Ensign or The Ensign may also refer to: Places * Ensign, Alberta, Alberta, Canada * Ensign, Kansas * Ensign Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Ensign Peak, Utah * Ensign Township, Michigan * Ensign Township, North Dakota (near Glenburn, North Dakota, Glenburn) People Given name *Ensign Cottrell (1888–1947), American baseball player *Ensign Dickinson (1819–1897), American politician *Ensign H. Kellogg (1812–1882), American politician Surname * Ensign (surname) Transportation * Pearson Ensign, a class of full-keel sailboats * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 * Armstrong Whitworth Ensign, a class of British airliner, and the name of the first example *Ensignbus, a bus company in England *Ensign Manufacturing Company, a defunct railroad car manufacturing company in West Virginia Music * Ensign (band) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
706 Naval Air Squadron
706 Naval Air Squadron (706 NAS) was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). Established as a fighter and torpedo-bomber training unit in Australia at the end of World War Two, it was briefly reformed as a helicopter squadron in the early 1950s, before becoming a helicopter training unit in 1962, and operating until 1998. History Crew Pool & Refresher Flying Training School (1945-1946) The squadron was formed in the United Kingdom in January 1945 and sailed for Australia in February, arriving in March, where it was officially commissioned on 10 April 1945 at RNAS Schofields, MONAB III (), near Schofields, New South Wales. It operated as a refresher training and conversion unit for the British Pacific Fleet, flying the Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber, the Fairey Barracuda torpedo and dive bomber, the Vought Corsair fighter aircraft, the Fairey Firefly fighter and anti-submarine aircraft, the Grumman Hellcat fighter aircraft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
826 Naval Air Squadron
826 Naval Air Squadron was a Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadron formed during World War II which has been reformed several times since then until last disbanded in 1993. History Second World War No. 826 Squadron was formed at RNAS Ford in Sussex as a torpedo bomber squadron equipped with 12 Fairey Albacore biplanes.Brown 1972, p. 48. After initial training it was placed under the operational control of RAF Coastal Command, flying its first mission, a daylight bombing raid against a road junction at Nieuwpoort, Belgium on 31 May 1940. The squadron continued to fly a mixture of convoy escort missions, daylight attacks against German land and sea targets and nighttime patrols against German E-boats until the Albacore was grounded on 3 July 1940 owing to the unreliability of the aircraft's Bristol Taurus engines. This resulted in the Squadron being temporarily re-equipped with the older Fairey Swordfish until the Albacore was returned to use in August. From August to October 1940, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
825 Naval Air Squadron
825 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Naval Air Squadron which was re-commissioned on 10 October 2014 and currently flies the AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA2. It was a carrier-based squadron that was formed on 8 October 1934 from the aircraft and personnel of 824 Naval Air Squadron. It operated in most of the theatres of the Second World War, carrying out a number of attacks on prominent German warships, including the battleship in the Atlantic and the pocket battleships and and heavy cruiser during their Channel Dash. The squadron also saw action in later conflicts, including the Korean War and the Falklands War. History Pre-war history 825 Squadron's first assignment after commissioning was to board the aircraft carrier for service on the China Station. This was short-lived, and by January 1935 both the squadron and the carrier were in the Mediterranean. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
822 Naval Air Squadron
822 Naval Air Squadron was a Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadron before and during World War II. History Pre-war 822 squadron was formed on 3 April 1933 from a merger of No's 442 and 449 (Fleet Spotter Reconnaissance) Flights at Netheravon and posted to the Home Fleet aboard . From March to November 1936 it was equipped with Fairey Seals passed on from 821 Squadron, soon replaced by Blackburn Sharks, to carry out a Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance role. In August 1937 the squadron received Fairey Swordfish aircraft, which it continued to operate from ''Furious'' until February 1939, when the squadron was re-allocated to HMS ''Courageous'' as a deck landing training unit. ''Furious '' and ''Courageous'' were 1st class cruisers which had been converted in 1924 to serve as an aircraft carriers. When ''Courageous'' was sunk by the German submarine U-29 in September 1939, the squadron was disbanded. World War II The squadron was re-formed in October 1941 as a torpedo bomber reconnaissa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
819 Naval Air Squadron
819 Naval Air Squadron (819 NAS), also known as 819 Squadron, was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It most recently operated Westland Sea King between February 1971 and November 2001. Established in January 1940, at HMS ''Peregrine'', the Royal Naval Air Station at Ford, the squadron was sent to Coastal Command to protect the Dunkirk evacuation. In June 1940, the squadron joined HMS ''Illustrious'', serving in the North Atlantic before moving to the Mediterranean Fleet in August and participated in the Taranto attack in November. After HMS ''Illustrious'' was severely damaged in January 1941, the squadron was disbanded. Reformed at HMS ''Daedalus'', RNAS Lee-on-Solent, in October, the squadron was again assigned to Coastal Command, later. In April 1943 it embarked in HMS ''Archer'' and provided anti-submarine protection for North Atlantic convoys. It became the first squadron to sink a U-boat using rockets. The squadron later bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
818 Naval Air Squadron
818 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier-based squadron formed in August 1939. It served on a number of the Navy's aircraft carriers during the Second World War, serving in most of the theatres of the war, before decommissioning at the end of the war. History Norway and the Mediterranean 818 Squadron was formed as a torpedo reconnaissance squadron at Evanton in August 1939. This was some two months earlier than had originally been planned, owing to the increased threat of war. The squadron was initially equipped with nine Fairey Swordfish Is, and then embarked on the aircraft carrier at the navy's base at Scapa Flow. ''Ark Royal'' was then deployed to search for enemy shipping off Norway. 818 Squadron then transferred to in April 1940, after the German invasion of Norway. On 11 April aircraft from the squadron attacked two German destroyers in Trondheim Fjord. The squadron then moved ashore, spending the period between May and June 1940 flying out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
815 Naval Air Squadron
815 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron flying the AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA.2 helicopter and is the Navy's front line Wildcat Naval Air Squadron. The squadron is based at RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) in Somerset. The squadron is capable of carrying out multiple roles such as: counter-narcotics, anti-piracy, Above Surface Warfare (ASuW), search and rescue, disaster relief and flying and engineering training. In the early 2000s, the Navy said that the squadron was largest helicopter squadron in Europe. History Second World War The squadron formed at RNAS Worthy Down on 9 October 1939, from the remnants of 811 and 822 squadrons that had survived the sinking of their carrier in September 1939, with Fairey Swordfish aircraft. The squadron disbanded in November 1939 but reformed the same month. In May 1940 the squadron provided support to the Dunkirk evacuation. In June 1940, the squadron embarked on and sailed for the Mediterranean in August, attacking a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
812 Naval Air Squadron
812 Naval Air Squadron (812 NAS), also referred to as 812 Squadron, was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It most recently operated with Fairey Gannet between November 1955 and December 1956. It was active from 1933 and saw service in both World War II and the Korean War. Service history First formation The squadron was first formed on 3 April 1933 aboard the aircraft carrier , then part of the Mediterranean Fleet, by amalgamating No 461 and 462 (Fleet Torpedo) Flights. Originally equipped with the Blackburn Ripon, these were replaced with the Blackburn Baffin in January 1934, with the squadron being the first to be fully equipped with this improved derivative of the Ripon. In June 1934, when ''Glorious'' returned to Britain for a refit, the Squadron transferred over to and in February 1935, moved over to , disembarking in March and remaining shore based at Hal Far airfield in Malta until ''Glorious'' returned to the Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
811 Naval Air Squadron
811 Naval Air Squadron (811 NAS), sometimes expressed as 811 Squadron, was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It most recently operated Hawker Sea Hawk between 1955 and 1956. It was first founded in 1933, and served during World War II, seeing action in the battle of the Atlantic and on Russian convoys, and was eventually disbanded in 1956. Service history Pre-war The squadron was formed on 3 April 1933 by amalgamating No. 465 and No. 466 Fleet Torpedo Flights, and served aboard the aircraft carrier in the Home Fleet. Initially equipped with the Blackburn Ripon Mk.II, these were replaced in January 1935 with the Blackburn Baffin, which were in turn replaced by the Fairey Swordfish Mk.I in October 1936. In December 1938 the ''Furious'' was paid off, and the next year 811 Squadron was assigned to her sister ship . The squadron lost much of its personnel and all of its aircraft when ''Courageous'' was sunk by a U-boat on 17 Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
808 Naval Air Squadron
808 Naval Air Squadron is a ship-based helicopter squadron of the Royal Australian Navy. 808 Naval Air Squadron (808 NAS) was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). Originally established as a fleet fighter squadron at HMS ''Kestrel'', RNAS Worthy Down, in July 1940, it subsequently relocated to RAF Castletown, Caithness, in September. In October of the that year, the squadron was deployed aboard HMS ''Ark Royal'', joining Force H in the Western Mediterranean. Following the sinking of HMS ''Ark Royal'' in November 1941, the squadron was integrated into 807 Naval Air Squadron. Re-formed at HMS ''Merlin'', RNAS Donibristle, in January 1942, the squadron swiftly relocated to HMS ''Vulture'', RNAS St Merryn, HMS ''Heron'', RNAS Yeovilton and HMS ''Gadwall'', RNAS Belfast, before boarding the escort carrier HMS ''Biter'' in September but disembarking at HMS ''Blackcap'', RNAS Stretton. In December 1942, Supermarine Seafire aircraft were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
807 Naval Air Squadron
807 Naval Air Squadron (807 NAS) sometimes referred to as 807 Squadron, was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It most recently operated the Supermarine Scimitar F.1 strike aircraft between October 1958 and May 1962. Formed in September 1940 and operating as a carrier-based fighter squadron, it served throughout the Second World War operating with Fairey Fulmar initially and then transitioning to Supermarine Seafire, the first FAA squadron to do so. During the Korean War, it flew Hawker Sea Fury and then later the Hawker Sea Hawk. History Second World War (1939-1945) Formation 807 Naval Air Squadron was formed at RNAS Worthy Down (HMS ''Kestrel''), Hampshire, in September 1940, as a Fleet Fighter Squadron equipped with nine Fairey Fulmar Mk.I, a British carrier-based reconnaissance/fighter aircraft. Three were embarked in the fighter catapult ship HMS ''Pegasus'', where they remained until February 1941, when the entire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
