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820 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed in April 1933 with the transferral of the Fairey III aircraft from 405 Flight Royal Air Force to the Fleet Air Arm. It has operated, with a number of brief gaps, up to the present day and continues in service, flying the Merlin HM.Mk.1 out of RNAS Culdrose.

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  • 820 Naval Air Squadron
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  • 820 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed in April 1933 with the transferral of the Fairey III aircraft from 405 Flight Royal Air Force to the Fleet Air Arm. It has operated, with a number of brief gaps, up to the present day and continues in service, flying the Merlin HM.Mk.1 out of RNAS Culdrose.
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Garrison
Branch
  • 23(xsd:integer)
command structure
Role
  • Offensive Support
identification symbol
  • A flying fish above the waves in a circle of rope
Country
  • United Kingdom
Current Commander
  • Cdr. Jason P Phillips, BA, MSc, FRGS, RN
Type
  • Carrier based squadron
identification symbol label
  • Squadron Badge heraldry
Caption
  • Fairey Swordfish of 820 Naval Air Squadron passing over HMS Ark Royal in 1939
Dates
  • Apr 1933 – Nov 1943
  • January 1958 – May 1959
  • Jul 1951 – December 1957
  • Nov 1959 – Oct 1960
  • Oct 1944 – Mar 1946
  • Sep 1964 – present
Unit Name
  • 820(xsd:integer)
battle honours
  • Japan 1945
  • 'Bismarck' 1941
  • Okinawa 1945
  • Sicily 1943
  • Malta Convoys 1941
  • Atlantic 1941
  • Falkland Islands 1982
  • North Africa 1942–43
  • Norway 1940–41 Spartivento 1940
  • Salerno 1943 Palembang 1945
Equipment
Motto
  • Latin: Tutamen et Ultor
identification symbol 2 label
  • Squadron Codes
abstract
  • 820 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed in April 1933 with the transferral of the Fairey III aircraft from 405 Flight Royal Air Force to the Fleet Air Arm. It has operated, with a number of brief gaps, up to the present day and continues in service, flying the Merlin HM.Mk.1 out of RNAS Culdrose.
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