The following story is based on a Royal Australian Navy News story first published on Friday 23 April 1982, page 4. Australian Naval aviation this month celebrated the 65th anniversary ...
Fleet Air Arm
Auster shootdown over Sydney in 1955
FOR more than three hours on a fine, calm August morning in 1955, the eyes of Sydney’s suburbia were fixed skyward, anxiously watching the flight of a pilotless Auster aeroplane ...
Occasional Paper 161: HMAS Tobruk (II) Recognized for Operation SOLACE Service
Thirty years after the event, HMAS Tobruk and the crew members of her 1992-93 Operation SOLACE deployment to Somalia received approval from the Minister for Defence Personnel, Matt Keogh for ...
FLYING STATIONS II, The Royal Australian Navy’s Fleet Air Arm 1998-2022: Book Review
Edited by Lieutenant Commander Desmond Woods OAM RAN Published by the RAN Fleet Air Arm in conjunction with Avonmore Books, Kent Town, South Australia 5071 ISBN 978-0-6452469-5-7 Reviewed by David ...
Navy Birds Return to their Nest – Navy News Paper article August 1958.
After a glamorous six months’ cruise in H.M A.S. Melbourne, the Air Group returned to its nest at Albatross on July 20. At 7.30 in perfect weather, 11 Sea Venoms, ...
Australian Naval History on 15 January 2021
NUSHIP Supply II arrived in Sydney Harbour ahead of her commissioning in 2021. Navy’s Fleet Air Arm was recognised for its contribution to Operation Bursa with the awarding of the ...
Occasional Paper 68: Bristol Sycamore HR50/51
This paper, first published by the Sea Power Centre – Australia provides an overview of the service history of the Bristol Sycamore rescue and training helicopter operated by the RAN ...
Australian Naval History on 1 December 2017
Retirement of the S-70B-2 Seahawk and AS350BA Squirrel helicopters from 723 and 816 Squadrons during a ceremony at Nowra ...
Australian Naval History on 1 December 2017
The AS350BA Squirrel Helicopter was retired from RAN service. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 September 2016
The last of Navy’s 24 MH60 Romeos was accepted at Nowra’s Aviation Technology Park ...
Australian Naval History on 11 June 2015
725 Squadron commissioned to fly MH-60R helicopters ...
Australian Naval History on 12 December 2013
First two MH-60R accepted into NU SQDN 725 at NAS Jacksonville USA ...
Australian Naval History on 11 July 2013
808 Squadron was recommissioned at HMAS Albatross to fly the MRH-90 Taipan ...
Farewell to the LPAs
816 Squadron – the Fighting Tigers
Australian Naval History on 16 December 2011
817 squadron decommissioned and last Sea Kings withdrawn from RAN service ...
817 Squadron: You will miss us when we are gone
Introduction of the A4 Skyhawk into the RAN Fleet Air Arm 1967/1968
Australian Naval History on 28 January 2011
808 Squadron recommissioned into the Fleet Air Arm at Nowra to fly the MRH-90 Taipan ...
Australian Naval History on 26 June 2008
805 Squadron decommissioned at NAS Nowra after the Super Sea Sprite program was cancelled in March 2008 ...
Australian Naval History on 18 December 2007
The first two MRH-90 Taipan were accepted into service in Brisbane ...
Australian Naval History on 24 March 2006
The landing craft heavy, HMA Ships WEWAK, (LCDR Williams, RAN), LABUAN, (LCDR M. A. Verho, RAN), and TARAKAN, (LEUT C. J. Doolin, RAN), along with two Sea King helicopters from ...
By Dawn’s Early Light
Australian Naval History on 22 December 2003
Sea King helicopters from 817 Squadron were involved in water bombing to fight several fires burning near HMAS CRESWELL, Jervis Bay, NSW. Over 100 campers, from nearby Green Patch, also ...
Australian Naval History on 28 February 2001
805 Squadron recommissioned at NAS Nowra with Kaman Super Seasprite helicopters ...