Royal Navy (1943–1945) Royal Australian Navy (1958–present)
Part of
Fleet Air Arm
Garrison/HQ
HMAS Albatross
Battle honours
Vietnam 1967
Aircraft flown
Helicopter
MH-60R Seahawk Romeo
Military unit
725 Squadron is a naval aviation squadron of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Fleet Air Arm. The squadron was originally created in August 1943 as part of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. It initially served as a fleet requirements unit, was rerolled in August 1945 as a target towing unit, then was disbanded in December 1945. In January 1958, the squadron was re-formed, as a fleet requirements and communications unit of the RAN, operating a variety of fixed-wing aircraft. The squadron was redesignated as an anti-submarine warfare training squadron in May 1959, then was decommissioned in May 1961 and absorbed into 724 Squadron. 725 Squadron was recommissioned in November 1962 as an operational anti-submarine helicopter squadron, flying the Westland Wessex. During this commission, the squadron was involved in HMAS Sydney's troop transport voyages, the rescue of personnel following the Melbourne-Voyager collision, and the Operation Navy Help Darwin relief effort post-Cyclone Tracy. The squadron was decommissioned in December 1975. 725 Squadron was commissioned for the fourth time in June 2015, this time as a training unit for MH-60R Seahawk Romeo helicopters: the squadron had been reactivated two years prior as a non-commissioned unit train on and accept into service the Romeos.
725Squadron is a naval aviation squadron of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Fleet Air Arm. The squadron was originally created in August 1943 as part...
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will transition to the new MH-60R Seahawk, with 725Squadron being reformed to be the training squadron. Sikorsky MH-60R Romeo (Anti Submarine Warfare...
1960s as the RAN wound-down its fixed-wing aircraft operations. 724 Squadron absorbed 725Squadron in June 1961 and 805 Squadron and 723 Squadron in June and...
War Office. However, the RAN submarine HMAS AE1 became the first ever vessel of the new navy to be sunk. The Australian Squadron was placed under control...
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the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres. 805 Squadron was recreated as a unit of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1948, and operated from Australian aircraft...
March 1953 the Squadron took delivery of the RAN's first helicopter, a Bristol Sycamore. 723 Squadron also took delivery of the RAN's first jet aircraft...
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the end of the war. It was re-formed in 1950 as 808 SquadronRAN, a carrier-based attack squadron of the Royal Australian Navy's Fleet Air Arm, and saw...
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