760 Naval Air Squadron

760 Naval Air Squadron (760 NAS) is a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. The squadron first formed on 1 April 1940 as No.1 Fleet Fighter Pool with a variety of aircraft types before standardising in 1941 on the Sea Hurricane. In this role it disbanded on 31 December 1942. In May 1944 760 NAS briefly reformed as an Anti-Submarine Operational Training Squadron before disbanding into 766 Naval Air Squadron in November. Reformed again as part of No.1 Naval Air Fighter School in April 1945 it converted fighter pilots to the Corsair and then the Seafire until 23 January 1946 when it disbanded.

760 Naval Air Squadron
Active1940-42
1944
1945-46[1]
1989 onwards
CountryUnited Kingdom
BranchRoyal Navy
Part ofFleet Air Arm
Hawker Sea Hurricanes

760 Squadron reformed in 1989 at the Air Engineering School Lee-on-Solent providing air engineering training for officers and ratings using old airframes. The school moved to HMS Sultan Gosport in 1995. It continues as the Engineering Training Squadron of the Royal Navy Air Engineering and Survival School, now equipped with retired Sea King airframes.[2]

References

Citations
  1. Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 78.
  2. Ballance, Theo (2016). The Squadrons and Units of the Fleet Air Arm. Air-Britain. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978 0 85130 489 2.

Bibliography
  • Sturtivant, R; Ballance, T (1994). The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-223-8.


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