January - July 1945 13 January 1958 - 2 December 1961[1]
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Royal Navy
Type
Fleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron
Role
Fleet Requirements Unit
Pilotless Drone Target Unit
Size
Squadron
Part of
Fleet Air Arm
Naval Air Stations
RNAS Takali (HMS Goldfinch) RNAS Stretton (HMS Stretton) RNAS Hal Far (HMS Falcon)
Insignia
Identification Markings
590-599 (Firefly / Canberra) 655-659 (Meteor)[2]
Military unit
728B Naval Air Squadron (728B NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) which disbanded in December 1961. It first formed as a Fleet Requirements Unit at HMS Goldfinch, RNAS Takali in January 1945, with Miles Martinet and Supermarine Seafire aircraft, but disbanded in July. It reformed in the United Kingdom in January 1958 at HMS Blackcap, RNAS Stretton, as a Pilotless Drone Target Unit and moved to Malta towards the end of February 1958, becoming operational at HMS Falcon, RNAS Hal Far in March 1958. It flew various fixed wing target drones in particular to support the Seaslug surface-to-air missile development program.
^Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 52.
^Ballance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 36.
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