803 Naval Air Squadron
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803 Naval Air Squadron, sometimes called 803 Squadron, is an inactive Fleet Air Arm naval air squadron of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. It most recently operated the Blackburn Buccaneer S.2 carrier
An 803 Squadron Fairey Fulmar Mk I during the Battle of Cape Matapan, 1941.
An 803 NAS Sea Hawk on USS Antietam in 1953.
HMS Victorious in 1960. A Supermarine Scimitar on the flight deck
An 803 NAS Scimitar F.1 from HMS Hermes.
Supermarine Scimitar
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The Supermarine Scimitar was a British single-seat naval strike aircraft. Operated exclusively by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, it was the final aircraft to be entirely designed and manufactured by
803 Naval Air Squadron
…Hawker Sea Fury. Reformed as part of the Royal Navy it operated with Supermarine Attacker. These were followed by the Hawker Sea Hawk and later the Supermarine Scimitar. 803 NAS was formed on 3 April 1933 by promoting No 405 (Fleet Fighter) Flight to the status of a squadron, with nine Ospreys. Later that month, the…
Scimitars of 736 Naval Air Squadron at Farnborough, 1962
An 803 NAS Scimitar from HMS Hermes together with a Sea Vixen, and an A-4, two F-8s, an A-3 and an F-4 of the US Navy over the Mediterranean Sea
XD220 at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in 2009