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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. [7] As of 2023 it is a primarily helicopter force, though also operating the F-35 Lightning II carrier-based stealth fighter jointly with the Royal Air Force.
Carried by the Wessex and Wasp helicopter (retired). Aérospatiale AS.12: Air-to-surface anti-ship missile. Carried by the Wasp and Wessex helicopters (retired). Martin Marietta Bullpup: Air-to-surface missile – Carried by the Scimitar and Sea Vixen (retired). Hawker Siddeley/Matra Martel – Carried by the Buccaneer and Sea Harrier (retired).
24 helicopters. Operated by No. 723 Squadron RAN and the Australian Defence Force Helicopter School: N42 AgustaWestland AW109: A109E Power: Italy United Kingdom: Two-crew trainer, general utility helicopter: 2007–2012: Four helicopters were leased from Raytheon Australia in 2007. Operated by No. 723 Squadron RAN: A11 Auster Autocar: J/5G Autocar
Attack helicopters; Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian: United States: Helicopter: Attack: 2022: 41 [47] 50 on order: 50 Apache AH1 are being remanufactured to AH-64E specification. Armed with M230 cannon and JAGM, Hellfire K1 and Hellfire Romeo missiles. [48] Reconnaissance helicopters; AgustaWestland Wildcat: United Kingdom: Rotorcraft: Utility ...
With the formation of the Fleet Air Arm in 1924, as a part of the Royal Air Force, blocks of squadron numbers were used. Numbers 401-439 were Fleet Fighter / Spotter Flights, assigned to Royal Navy battleships and cruisers. [2]
Loaned to Royal Canadian Navy 1946-48 and not commissioned into RN until November 1948. Returned to UK 1956 and modernised. Sold to Argentina as Independencia 1958. HMS Perseus (R51) ex-Ethalion ex-Mars: 48 18,330 long tons (18,624 t) 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines 1 June 1942 19 October 1945 Scrapped 1958
The military helicopter that collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in a crash that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft, was a UH-60 Black Hawk ...
705 Naval Air Squadron is a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN). It currently forms part of No. 1 Flying Training School at RAF Shawbury and trains pilots and aircrew from all three services under 2 Maritime Air Wing, operating with the Airbus H135 Juno HT Mk1 utility helicopter.