1 May 1943 - 4 July 1943 14 August 1943 - 31 May 1967[1]
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Royal Navy
Type
Fleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron
Role
Fleet Requirements Unit
Size
Squadron
Part of
Fleet Air Arm
Motto(s)
Docendo discimus (Latin for 'We learn by teaching')
Insignia
Squadron Badge Description
Blue, upon a base wavy white two bars wavy blue chief a Maltese Cross per pale red and white there on a hurt surmounted by a plate surmounted by a torteau pierced by an arrow point downward in bend sinister feathered black (1953)[2]
de Havilland Sea Hornet F Mk 20s of No 728 Fleet Requirements Unit, Hal Far, Malta
728 Naval Air Squadron (728 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA). It was formed at the beginning of May in 1943, as a Fleet Requirements Unit, at RN Air Section Gibraltar. It provided detachments at RN Air Section Tafaraoui, in Algeria and later at RAF Oujda in Morocco. Moving to HMS Grebe, RNAS Dekheila, in Egypt, during June, it then merged into 775 Naval Air Squadron during July. It reformed in August, again as a Fleet Requirements Unit, at HMS Grebe, moving immediately to RN Air Section Takali, Malta. It provided target towing both for the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet and the British Army, before later providing a detachment to tow targets for the United States Navy at Naples, Italy.[5] The squadron remained on Malta, alternating between the airbases at Ta Kali, Luqa and Hal Far, until disbanding at the latter, in May 1967.[1]
^ abBallance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 34-35.
^Sturtivant, Ballance 1994, p. 50.
^Ballance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 35.
^"728 NAS Helis". www.Helis.com. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
^Wragg 2019, p. 119.
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