HMS Flycatcher was a stone frigate name for the Royal Navy's headquarters for its Mobile Naval Air Bases which supported their Fleet Air Arm units.
Flycatcher was based first at RNAS Ludham, Norfolk then moved to Middle Wallop.
On 1 April 1947 Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong was recommissioned as HMS Flycatcher.[1]
The previous HMS Flycatcher was an ex-Turkish motor patrol boat. Built in 1912 by Thornycroft, she was sunk on 9 November 1914 by HMS Espiegle in Shatt-al-Arab, salvaged, and returned to service late 1915, armed with 1 6-pounder gun and 1 machine gun. Sold c1923.[2]
^Kai Tak – Helicopter Database
^"British Warships 1914-1919" by F J Dittmar & J J Colledge
HMSFlycatcher was a stone frigate name for the Royal Navy's headquarters for its Mobile Naval Air Bases which supported their Fleet Air Arm units. Flycatcher...
base is notable for having previously served as both a Royal Navy (as HMSFlycatcher) and a Royal Air Force (as RAF Middle Wallop) controlled airfield, as...
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torpedo bombers. Commissioned as HMS Urley (Manx for Eagle) by the Admiralty on 21 June 1944, with accounts handled by HMS Valkyrie, flying recommenced on...
and Royal Air Force (RAF) stations with a Royal Navy presence. HMS Gannet HMS Seahawk HMS Heron Predannack Airfield RNAS Merryfield RAF Marham - 809 Naval...
Mobile Naval Airfields Organisation. Ludham was then commissioned as HMSFlycatcher, RNAS Ludham on 4 September 1944 under the command of the Senior Officer...
became known as Royal Naval Air Station Ford, (RNAS Ford) and commissioned as HMS Peregrine, with Captain (A) R. de H. Burton as the initial Royal Navy commanding...
(RNAS Grimsetter). On 15 August, it was commissioned as HMS Robin, as a satellite to RNAS Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk), located 1 mi (1.6 km) to the north west...
navy ships and bases are given ship names and Abbotsinch's was known as HMS Sanderling since June 1940. During the 1950s, the airfield housed a large...
World War II military airfield which was operated by the Fleet Air Arm as HMS Nuthatch. John Laing & Son began building an airfield at Anthorn for the...
site was transferred to naval command in 1939 and renamed RNAS Eastleigh (HMS Raven), and spent most of the war in a ground and air training role for the...
for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm airfield at Burscough, HMS Ringtail, being given the name HMS Ringtail II. After a period of inactivity, Woodvale reopened...
from the RAF to the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) on 2 July 1946 and became known as HMS Fulmar II. On transfer of the station, No. 111 OTU and No. 1674 HCU disbanded...
transferred to the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) and became known as RNAS Lossiemouth or HMS Fulmar. Lossiemouth was used as a training station by the FAA until it was...
HMS Fieldfare also known as R.A.F. Landing Ground Novar, then RNAS Evanton and later as RAF Evanton, is a disused airfield in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland...
HMS Courageous, where 16 Flycatchers served alongside 16 Blackburn Ripons and 16 reconnaissance aircraft. Very popular with pilots, the Flycatchers were...
different times, embarking on the aircraft carriers HMS Ark Royal, HMS Eagle, HMS Hermes and HMS Victorious. In 1967 RNAS Brawdy was used by 736 NAS and...
Naval Air Station Bramcote, (RNAS Bramcote), and when commissioned became HMS Gamecock. When it subsequently transferred to the British Army from the Admiralty...
was designated a Royal Naval Air Station as "H.M.S. Corncrake", and Kirkistown Airfield was known as "H.M.S. Corncrake II". The following units were here...
when it was known as Royal Naval Air Station Arbroath (RNAS Arbroath; or HMS Condor). It was opened on 19 June 1940. From the outset it was a training...
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