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In the beginning the Fleet Air Arm was the Royal Naval Air Service. In 1912 the Admiralty created the Air Department, which begat the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in the same year. From that time until April 1918, when it merged with the Royal Flying Corps into the newly formed Royal Air Force, the […]

Sea Hawk FGA.6 XE364 was assigned to No.899 NAS when photographed complete with a full load of rockets. The aircraft and the squadron would both take part in operations over Suez. After the Korean War many of the Colossus class carriers were withdrawn from use and placed in reserve causing the Royal Navy to shrink […]