Air Services

United Kingdom  

Fleet Air Arm

Initially formed in 1914 as the Royal Naval Air Service, the Fleet Air Arm is the aeriel branch of the Royal Navy.  The RNAS became the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force in 1924 comprising those RAF units formerly based on aircraft carriers and targeting ships.  Authority was handed over to the Royal Navy in 1939.

F-35B Lightning 

ZM157 / 023 @ RIAT 2022

ZM154 / 020 @ RIAT 2023

ZM155 / 021 @ RIAT 2023

Beechcraft Avenger

ZZ501 @ RIAT 2017

ZZ503 @ Kilze Rijen 2013

AgustaWestland AW159 HMA2 Wildcat 

ZZ529 @ RIAT 2017

ZZ381 @ Yeovilton Air Day 2015

Westland Merlin HM.1

ZH850 @ Waddington Airshow 2013

ZH856 @ Southend Airshow 2011

Westland Merlin HC.4

ZJ128/M @ RIAT 2023

ZJ131/P @ RIAT 2023

Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin II

ZJ165 @ RIAT 2023

Grob Tutor T1 

G-BYXS @ Yeovilton Airday 2015

G-BYWM @ Yeovilton Airday 2015

RECENTLY RETIRED

Westland Lynx

1976- 2017

XZ692 @ Duxford Spring Airshow 2011

XZ736 @ Yeovilton Airday 2011

Westland Sea King ASaC7

1969 - 26th September 2018

XV707/184 @ Yeovilton Airday 2015

ZE427 @ Yeovilton Airday 2015

British Aerospace Hawk T1

1994 - 18th March 2022

XX281 @ Yeovilton Air Day 2015

XX205 @ RIAT 2017