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892 Naval Air Squadron

Index 892 Naval Air Squadron

892 Naval Air Squadron (892 NAS) was a carrier-based fighter squadron of the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. [1]

33 relations: BBC, British Aerospace Sea Harrier, CVA-01, Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race, De Havilland Sea Venom, De Havilland Sea Vixen, English Electric Lightning, Escort carrier, Fin flash, Fleet Air Arm, Grumman F4F Wildcat, Grumman F6F Hellcat, HMS Archer (D78), HMS Ark Royal (R09), HMS Battler (D18), HMS Eagle (R05), HMS Ocean (R68), McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, McDonnell Douglas Phantom in UK service, No. 111 Squadron RAF, No. 23 Squadron RAF, No. 43 Squadron RAF, Norfolk, Virginia, Omega, RAF Leuchars, RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron), Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Sailor (TV series), Simon's Sircus, United Kingdom, 1966 Defence White Paper, 819 Naval Air Squadron.

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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British Aerospace Sea Harrier

The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval short take-off and vertical landing/vertical take-off and landing jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft; the second member of the Harrier Jump Jet family developed.

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CVA-01

In the 1960s CVA-01 aircraft carrier was to be the first of a class of fleet carriers that would have replaced the Royal Navy's existing aircraft carriers, most of which had been designed before or during World War II.

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Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race

The Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race was a race between London, UK and New York City, USA to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first trans-atlantic crossing by John Alcock and Arthur Brown.

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De Havilland Sea Venom

The de Havilland Sea Venom is a British postwar carrier-capable jet aircraft developed from the de Havilland Venom.

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De Havilland Sea Vixen

The de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen is a British twin-engine, twin boom-tailed, two-seat jet fighter flown by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during the 1950s through the early 1970s.

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English Electric Lightning

The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic fighter aircraft of the Cold War era.

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Escort carrier

The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (US hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, and the United States Navy in World War II.

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Fin flash

A fin flash is part of the national markings of the military aircraft of a number of countries.

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Fleet Air Arm

The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the branch of the British Royal Navy responsible for the operation of naval aircraft.

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Grumman F4F Wildcat

The Grumman F4F Wildcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that began service with both the United States Navy and the British Royal Navy in 1940, where it was initially known by the latter as the Martlet.

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Grumman F6F Hellcat

The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II.

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HMS Archer (D78)

HMS Archer was a built by the United States in 1939–1940 and operated by the Royal Navy during World War II.

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HMS Ark Royal (R09)

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1979, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier.

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HMS Battler (D18)

HMS Battler (D18) was an escort aircraft carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

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HMS Eagle (R05)

HMS Eagle was an of the Royal Navy, in service 1951–1972.

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HMS Ocean (R68)

HMS Ocean was a Royal Navy ''Colossus''-class light fleet aircraft carrier of 13,190 tons built in Glasgow by Alexander Stephen and Sons.

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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft.

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McDonnell Douglas Phantom in UK service

The United Kingdom operated the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II as one of its principal combat aircraft from the 1960s to the early 1990s.

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No. 111 Squadron RAF

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No. 23 Squadron RAF

No.

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No. 43 Squadron RAF

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Omega

Omega (capital: Ω, lowercase: ω; Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet.

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RAF Leuchars

Royal Air Force Leuchars or RAF Leuchars was a Royal Air Force station located in Leuchars, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland.

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RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron)

Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, or RNAS Yeovilton, (HMS Heron) is an airfield of the Royal Navy and British Army, sited a few miles north of Yeovil, somerset, just off the Dorset border.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Sailor (TV series)

Sailor was a major BBC television documentary series, first shown in the mid-1970s, about life on board the fourth HMS ''Ark Royal'', a British aircraft carrier.

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Simon's Sircus

Simon’s Sircus was an aerobatics display team comprising six Sea Vixen FAW2 aircraft from 892 Naval Air Squadron of the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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1966 Defence White Paper

The 1966 Defence White Paper (Command Papers 2592 and 2901) was a major review of the United Kingdom's defence policy initiated by the Labour government under Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

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819 Naval Air Squadron

819 Naval Air Squadron (819 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/892_Naval_Air_Squadron

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