Seaplane and Flying boat station Naval Air Station
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British Army (1913–14) Royal Navy (1914–18)
Site history
Built
1913 (1913)
In use
March 1913 – April 1918
Battles/wars
First World War
RNAS Calshot was a First World War Royal Navy air station for seaplanes and flying boats, mainly operating as an experimental and training station, but also providing anti-submarine and convoy protection patrols.
It was located at the end of Calshot Spit in Southampton Water, at grid reference SU487024, with the landing area sheltered by the mainland, to the west, north and east, and the Isle of Wight a few miles away to the south on the other side of the Solent.
RNASCalshot was a First World War Royal Navy air station for seaplanes and flying boats, mainly operating as an experimental and training station, but...
Royal Flying Corps established Calshot Naval Air Station (later known as RNASCalshot and RAF Calshot) at the end of Calshot Spit. It was also at one point...
19th century it was apparently harvested for sale in Southampton. RNASCalshot RAF Calshot OS Explorer Map, New Forest, Scale: 1:25 000.Publisher: Ordnance...
departure point must be either Hounslow Heath Aerodrome (for landplanes) or RNASCalshot (for seaplanes and flying boats), with reporting points at Alexandria...
Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during the First World War and finally became a Royal Air Force station on the merger of the RNAS and the RFC on 1 April...
resulting Special torpedo seaplane Type C was delivered to RNASCalshot on 1 July 1914, carrying the RNAS serial number 170. The Special was a four-bay biplane...
include storage, a data centre, lorry park, and manufacturing space. RNASCalshot RAF Eastchurch another air station providing flying training to the Royal...
the planned RNAS strategic bombing force to RFC squadrons on the Western Front because the Sopwith firm were contracted to supply the RNAS exclusively...
(Canton-Uneé) piston engine, were completed by October. They went to RNASCalshot for evaluation in November 1914. The Special, tested that July, had failed...
initially at all), so Squadron-Commander Arthur Longmore, commander of the Calshot seaplane station which was carrying out the torpedo trials, suggested that...
testing at Calshot of radio equipment, sold to Greece in July. The Circuit of Britain machine was subject to compulsory purchase by the RNAS following...
Sunderland I & II 9 August 1939 26 May 1940 6 November 1939 9 October 1941 RAF Calshot → RAF Invergordon RAF Invergordon → RAF Lough Erne Squadron moves twice...
posted to No. 480 Flight, based at RAF Calshot. Hemming died following a flying accident in a Fairey IIID at Calshot on 26 February 1926. His passenger Flying...
for the RNAS, of which only 37 were completed. The Converted Seaplane entered service with the RNAS in 1917, operating from bases at Calshot, Dover, Portland...
Three RNAS squadrons were swiftly deployed to Belgium and France, primarily to fly reconnaissance missions. Grey was in command of the RNAS squadron...
Sydenham Airport, transferred to RN in 1943 as HMS Gadwall; reverted from RNAS back to RAF 1973 and closed in 1978. RAF Bellasize England East Riding of...
the main base of the RAF Marine Branch, with the closure of No. 238 MU, Calshot until the marine branch closed in 1986 and the School of Survival until...
Supermarine after being demobilised from the Royal Air Force, the successor to the RNAS, in 1919, and became a close colleague of R. J. Mitchell, the company's chief...
man to travel at more than five miles a minute in a Supermarine S.5 near Calshot England. The circumstances of his death have never been satisfactorily...
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