1830 Naval Air Squadron
Active1943-45
1947-57[1]
Country United Kingdom
Branch Royal Navy
Part ofFleet Air Arm

1830 Naval Air Squadron (1830 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

From HMS Illustrious 1830 NAS participated in Operation Robson over Sumatra in December 1944.[2]

1831 Squadron reformed at RNAS Abbotsinch (HMS Sanderling (now Glasgow Airport ) in Renfrewshire on 15 August 1947 as part of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, equipped with Fairey Firefly fighters.[3]

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 342.
  2. ↑ Winton 1970, pp. 70–74.
  3. ↑ "A history of 1830 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Air Squadron". The Royal Navy Research Archive. 29 December 2022.

Bibliography

  • Sturtivant, R; Ballance, T (1994). The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-223-8.
  • Winton, John (1970). The Forgotten Fleet: The British Navy in the Pacific, 1944–1945. New York: Coward-McCann.


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