1 April 1940 - 31 December 1942 1 May 1944 - 1 November 1944 10 April 1945 - 23 January 1946[1] 1989 onwards
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Royal Navy
Type
Fleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron
Role
No.1 Fleet Fighter Pool
Anti-Submarine Operational Training Squadron
Naval Air Fighter School
Engineering Training Squadron
Size
Squadron
Part of
Fleet Air Arm
Insignia
Squadron Badge
Blue, upon a bar wavy white in base a griffin rampant gold armed and langued red (2006)[2]
Identification Markings
W7A+ to W9A+Sea Hurricanes Y1A+ to Y7A+Corsairs[3]
Military unit
Hawker Sea Hurricane of the type used by 760 NAS
760 Naval Air Squadron (760 NAS) is a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.
The squadron first formed in April 1940 as No.1 Fleet Fighter Pool with a variety of aircraft types before standardising in 1941 on the Hawker Sea Hurricane. In this role it disbanded in December 1942.
In May 1944 760 NAS briefly reformed as an Anti-Submarine Operational Training Squadron before disbanding into 766 Naval Air Squadron in November. Reformed again as part of No.1 Naval Air Fighter School in April 1945 it converted fighter pilots to the Vought Corsair and then the Supermarine Seafire until 23 January 1946 when it disbanded.
760 Squadron reformed in 1989 at the Air Engineering School at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), providing air engineering training for officers and ratings using old airframes. The school moved to HMS Sultan at Gosport in 1995. It continues as the Engineering Training Squadron of the Royal Navy Air Engineering and Survival School, now equipped with retired Westland Sea King airframes.[4]
^Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 78.
^Ballance 2016, p. 61.
^Wragg 2019, p. 126.
^Ballance 2016, p. 62.
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