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720 Naval Air Squadron information


720 Naval Air Squadron
ActiveRoyal Air Force
15 July 1936 - 24 May 1939
Royal Navy
24 May 1939 - 21 January 1940
1 August 1945 - 5 January 1950[1]
Country720 Naval Air Squadron United Kingdom
Branch720 Naval Air Squadron Royal Navy
TypeFleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron
Role
  • Catapult Flight
  • RN Photographic Squadron
SizeSquadron
Part ofFleet Air Arm
Insignia
Identification MarkingsZ1-Z4 (Walrus)
P9A+ (Walrus May 1939)
FD8A+ (Oxford)
FD8+ (Anson)
600-603 (Anson 1947)[2][3]
Tail CodesFD:GJ (1947)[3]
Aircraft flown
ReconnaissanceSupermarine Walrus
TrainerAvro Anson
Airspeed Oxford
Avro Anson, of the type used by 720 NAS

720 Naval Air Squadron (720 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. The squadron originated as the Catapult Fight for the New Zealand Division and it achieved squadron status and a shore base at Auckland, New Zealand, before the start of the Second World War. However it was absorbed into 700 Naval Air Squadron in January 1940. The squadron reformed at the beginning of August 1945, from an unnumbered photographic flight originally formed in December 1940, at HMS Peregrine, RNAS Ford, in Sussex, as the RN Photographic Squadron. It moved to HMS Siskin, RNAS Gosport, in Hampshire, during May 1948, but 720 Naval Air Squadron disbanded in January 1950, with 771 Naval Air Squadron taking on the aircraft and duties.

  1. ^ Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 41.
  2. ^ Wragg 2019, p. 117.
  3. ^ a b Ballance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 25.

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