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1em;">Active</th><td class="infobox-data"><b><a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a></b><br />3 April 1933 – 1 April 1937<br />21 November 1938 - 24 May 1939<br /><b><a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a></b><br />24 May 1939 – 12 August 1943<br />15 June 1945 – 24 January 1946<br /><b><a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Navy" title="Royal Canadian Navy">Royal Canadian Navy</a></b><br />24 January 1946 - 1 May 1951<br /><b><a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a></b><br />23 November 1951 - 4 November 1955<br />14 January 1957 - 31 March 1958<br />3 June 1958 – 1 October 1966<br />3 July 1967 – 18 December 1969</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Single-seat fighter squadrons</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Role</th><td class="infobox-data">Fighter squadron</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fleet_Air_Arm" title="Fleet Air Arm">Fleet Air Arm</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Motto(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Cave Punctum</i></span><br />(<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a> for 'Beware of the sting')</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_honour" title="Battle honour">Battle honours</a></th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li>North Sea 1939</li> <li>Norway 1940</li> <li>Libya 1940–41</li> <li>Matapan 1941</li> <li>Crete 1941</li> <li>Mediterranean 1941–44</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p><b>803 Naval Air Squadron</b> (803 NAS) was a <a href="/wiki/Fleet_Air_Arm" title="Fleet Air Arm">Fleet Air Arm</a> (FAA) <a href="/wiki/Naval_air_squadron" title="Naval air squadron">naval air squadron</a> of the United Kingdom’s <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> (RN). The squadron was operational on four occasions from 1933 to 1946, subsequently transitioning to a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Navy" title="Royal Canadian Navy">Royal Canadian Navy</a> squadron from 1946 to 1951. It had an additional four separate periods of activity within the Royal Navy from 1951 to 1969. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=803_Naval_Air_Squadron&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interwar">Interwar</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=803_Naval_Air_Squadron&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Interwar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>803 NAS was formed on 3 April 1933 by promoting No 405 (Fleet Fighter) Flight to the status of a squadron, with nine <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Hart#Osprey" title="Hawker Hart">Ospreys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same month it embarked on <a href="/wiki/HMS_Eagle_(1918)" title="HMS Eagle (1918)">HMS <i>Eagle</i></a> for the Far East, where it remained (transferring to <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hermes_(95)" title="HMS Hermes (95)">HMS <i>Hermes</i></a> in January 1935) until disbandment on 1 October 1937. </p><p>803 Squadron was re-formed on 21 November 1938 at <a href="/wiki/RNAS_Worthy_Down" class="mw-redirect" title="RNAS Worthy Down">RNAS Worthy Down</a> out of 'B' Flight of No 800 Squadron. Equipped with six Ospreys and three <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Nimrod" title="Hawker Nimrod">Nimrods</a>, then (from December 1938) six <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Skua" title="Blackburn Skua">Skuas</a> and three Nimrods, the squadron embarked in <a href="/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(91)" title="HMS Ark Royal (91)">HMS <i>Ark Royal</i></a> in April 1938 as an RAF squadron but was transferred to Admiralty control on 24 May 1939. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=803_Naval_Air_Squadron&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the outbreak of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Skua" title="Blackburn Skua">Skuas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Roc" title="Blackburn Roc">Rocs</a> which formed 803 Squadron were embarked on <a href="/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(91)" title="HMS Ark Royal (91)">HMS <i>Ark Royal</i></a>. Operating out of <a href="/wiki/Scapa_Flow" title="Scapa Flow">Scapa Flow</a>, the squadron carried out anti-submarine patrols in the <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_Approaches" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwestern Approaches">Northwestern Approaches</a> (losing two Skuas in an attack on <a href="/wiki/German_submarine_U-30_(1936)" title="German submarine U-30 (1936)"><i>U-30</i></a> on 14 September 1939 and defending <a href="/wiki/SS_Fanad_Head" title="SS Fanad Head">SS <i>Fanad Head</i></a>) and regular patrols off Norway (during which the squadron shot down the first German aircraft to be shot down by a British aircraft in the war, a <a href="/wiki/Dornier_18" class="mw-redirect" title="Dornier 18">Dornier 18</a>, on 26 September 1939). The squadron's activities continued off Norway (though leaving her Rocs behind), operating there in April 1940 from <a href="/wiki/HMS_Glorious" title="HMS Glorious">HMS <i>Glorious</i></a>. 803 and <a href="/wiki/800_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="800 Naval Air Squadron">800</a> Squadrons successfully dive bombed and sank the <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_K%C3%B6nigsberg" title="German cruiser Königsberg">German cruiser <i>Königsberg</i></a> at <a href="/wiki/Bergen" title="Bergen">Bergen</a> (with 800 providing five aircraft and seven crews in contrast to 803's eleven aircraft and nine crews), though an attack by 803 from <i>Ark Royal</i> on the <a href="/wiki/German_battleship_Scharnhorst" title="German battleship Scharnhorst">German battleship <i>Scharnhorst</i></a> in June was less successful, with the loss of all but two aircraft. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FlotaBrit%C3%A1nicaEnMatap%C3%A1nMarzoDe1941--P00090.108.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/FlotaBrit%C3%A1nicaEnMatap%C3%A1nMarzoDe1941--P00090.108.jpeg/220px-FlotaBrit%C3%A1nicaEnMatap%C3%A1nMarzoDe1941--P00090.108.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/FlotaBrit%C3%A1nicaEnMatap%C3%A1nMarzoDe1941--P00090.108.jpeg/330px-FlotaBrit%C3%A1nicaEnMatap%C3%A1nMarzoDe1941--P00090.108.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/FlotaBrit%C3%A1nicaEnMatap%C3%A1nMarzoDe1941--P00090.108.jpeg/440px-FlotaBrit%C3%A1nicaEnMatap%C3%A1nMarzoDe1941--P00090.108.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="624" data-file-height="399" /></a><figcaption>An 803 Squadron Fulmar I during the Battle of Cape Matapan, 1941.</figcaption></figure> <p>803 Squadron was re-formed (with <a href="/wiki/Fairey_Fulmar" title="Fairey Fulmar">Fairey Fulmar I</a>) in October 1940, and after that served in the Eastern Mediterranean off <a href="/wiki/HMS_Formidable_(67)" title="HMS Formidable (67)">HMS <i>Formidable</i></a>, fighting at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Matapan" title="Battle of Cape Matapan">Battle of Cape Matapan</a> (shooting down two aircraft and damaging two more) and providing fighter cover for the <a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a> <a href="/wiki/Malta_Convoys" class="mw-redirect" title="Malta Convoys">convoys</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Crete" title="Battle of Crete">evacuation of Crete</a>. After HMS <i>Formidable</i> was damaged at Crete, 803 Squadron moved to <a href="/wiki/HMS_Grebe" title="HMS Grebe">Dekheila</a>, where it was re-equipped with <a href="/wiki/RAF" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF">RAF</a> <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane" title="Hawker Hurricane">Hurricanes</a>. Next it was based in <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Palestine</a> for operations against <a href="/wiki/Syria%E2%80%93Lebanon_campaign" title="Syria–Lebanon campaign">Syria</a> from June 1941, then in August 1941 was merged into the RN Fighter Squadron (a combined unit fighting in the <a href="/wiki/North_African_campaign" title="North African campaign">Western Desert</a>). </p><p>Re-equipped again with <a href="/wiki/Fairey_Fulmar" title="Fairey Fulmar">Fairey Fulmar II</a> in March 1942, it next operated from <a href="/wiki/Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon">Ceylon</a> against the Japanese (such as against the <a href="/wiki/Easter_Sunday_Raid" title="Easter Sunday Raid">Easter Sunday Raid</a>), rejoining HMS <i>Formidable</i> in the Indian Ocean in April. 803 Squadron then saw operations in <a href="/wiki/East_Africa" title="East Africa">East Africa</a> in 1943, before absorbing <a href="/wiki/806_Squadron_FAA" class="mw-redirect" title="806 Squadron FAA">806 Squadron</a> for army co-operation exercises. The new combined squadron was disbanded at <a href="/wiki/Tanga,_Tanzania" title="Tanga, Tanzania">Tanga</a> in August 1943, and only re-formed in June 1945 ready to join 19th <a href="/wiki/Carrier_air_wing" title="Carrier air wing">Carrier Air Group</a> in the Far Eastern theatre. At the re-formation it was based at <a href="/wiki/Arbroath" title="Arbroath">Arbroath</a> and equipped with 25 <a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Seafire" title="Supermarine Seafire">Seafire L.IIIs</a>, but just as it was about to ship out to the Far East in August 1945, the war <a href="/wiki/VJ_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="VJ Day">came to an end</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_Canadian_Navy">Royal Canadian Navy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=803_Naval_Air_Squadron&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Royal Canadian Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When <a href="/wiki/HMS_Warrior_(R31)" title="HMS Warrior (R31)">HMS <i>Warrior</i></a> was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Navy" title="Royal Canadian Navy">Royal Canadian Navy</a> (as HMCS <i>Warrior</i>) in January 1946, 803 Squadron went with the ship. In May 1951, she was renamed <a href="/wiki/870_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="870 Naval Air Squadron">870 Squadron RCN</a>, and the designation "803 Squadron" again became available to the Royal Navy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_Navy">Royal Navy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=803_Naval_Air_Squadron&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Royal Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CV-36_RN_SeaHawk_NAN9-53.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/CV-36_RN_SeaHawk_NAN9-53.jpg/220px-CV-36_RN_SeaHawk_NAN9-53.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/CV-36_RN_SeaHawk_NAN9-53.jpg/330px-CV-36_RN_SeaHawk_NAN9-53.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/CV-36_RN_SeaHawk_NAN9-53.jpg/440px-CV-36_RN_SeaHawk_NAN9-53.jpg 2x" data-file-width="670" data-file-height="349" /></a><figcaption>An 803 NAS <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Sea_Hawk" title="Hawker Sea Hawk">Sea Hawk</a> on <a href="/wiki/USS_Antietam_(CV-36)" title="USS Antietam (CV-36)">USS <i>Antietam</i></a> in 1953.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Supermarine_Scimitar_F1_803_NAS_c1962.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Supermarine_Scimitar_F1_803_NAS_c1962.jpg/220px-Supermarine_Scimitar_F1_803_NAS_c1962.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Supermarine_Scimitar_F1_803_NAS_c1962.jpg/330px-Supermarine_Scimitar_F1_803_NAS_c1962.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Supermarine_Scimitar_F1_803_NAS_c1962.jpg/440px-Supermarine_Scimitar_F1_803_NAS_c1962.jpg 2x" data-file-width="769" data-file-height="493" /></a><figcaption>An 803 NAS <a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Scimitar" title="Supermarine Scimitar">Scimitar F.1</a> from <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hermes_(R12)" title="HMS Hermes (R12)">HMS <i>Hermes</i></a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Re-formed in 1958, 803 NAS became the first FAA squadron to operate a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_bomber" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear bomber">nuclear-capable aircraft</a>, when it received the <a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Scimitar" title="Supermarine Scimitar">Supermarine Scimitar F.1</a>. (Eight years and five months later, she also became the last front-line FAA squadron to operate the Scimitar.) The squadron deployed aboard the newly rebuilt <a href="/wiki/HMS_Victorious_(R38)" title="HMS Victorious (R38)">HMS <i>Victorious</i></a>, and remained attached to her air group for the next two years, after which the squadron transferred to <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hermes_(R12)" title="HMS Hermes (R12)">HMS <i>Hermes</i></a> for two years; during this period, the squadron had a normal complement of eight aircraft. It then moved to <a href="/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(R09)" title="HMS Ark Royal (R09)">HMS <i>Ark Royal</i></a>, where the greater hangar capacity meant that the squadron's standard strength could be doubled to 16 aircraft. This was achieved when 803 Squadron subsumed <a href="/wiki/800_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="800 Naval Air Squadron">800 NAS</a> (which was due to re-equip with the <a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Buccaneer" title="Blackburn Buccaneer">Blackburn Buccaneer S.1</a>). 803 Squadron was again disbanded on 1 October 1966. The squadron's Scimitars were transferred to <a href="/wiki/RNAS_Brawdy" class="mw-redirect" title="RNAS Brawdy">RNAS Brawdy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pembrokeshire" title="Pembrokeshire">Pembrokeshire</a>. There, they were overhauled, before flying<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vagueness" title="Wikipedia:Vagueness"><span title="This information is too vague. (May 2020)">vague</span></a></i>]</sup> to <a href="/wiki/Airwork_Services" title="Airwork Services">Airwork</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth_Airport" title="Bournemouth Airport">Hurn</a>. Subsequently, many appeared went on static display in various parts of the UK. </p><p>803 NAS was re-formed as the headquarters for the Buccaneer S.2 trials, on 3 July 1967, based at <a href="/wiki/RNAS_Lossiemouth" class="mw-redirect" title="RNAS Lossiemouth">RNAS Lossiemouth</a>. In August 1968, the squadron demonstrated the FAA's ability to reinforce forward-deployed carriers, when a flight of four Buccaneers flew from Britain to in the Indian Ocean, joining <i>Hermes</i>. Following a government decision to scale-down the British carrier force, 803 NAS was disbanded on 18 December 1969; her aircraft were transferred to the RAF. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Second_World_War_battle_honours">Second World War battle honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=803_Naval_Air_Squadron&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Second World War battle honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>North Sea 1939</li> <li>Norway 1940</li> <li>Libya 1940–41</li> <li>Matapan 1941</li> <li>Crete 1941</li> <li>Mediterranean 1941–44</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aircraft_flown">Aircraft flown</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=803_Naval_Air_Squadron&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Aircraft flown"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hawker_Hart" title="Hawker Hart">Hawker Osprey</a> 1932–1944</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawker_Nimrod" title="Hawker Nimrod">Hawker Nimrod</a> 1933–?</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Skua" title="Blackburn Skua">Blackburn Skua II</a> Dec 1938 – Oct 1940</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Roc" title="Blackburn Roc">Blackburn Roc I</a> April 1939 – April 1940</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairey_Fulmar" title="Fairey Fulmar">Fairey Fulmar I</a> Oct 1940 – June 1941</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane" title="Hawker Hurricane">Hawker Hurricane I</a> June 1941 – March 1942</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea Hurricane">Hawker Sea Hurricane</a> June 1942 – Aug 1942</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairey_Fulmar" title="Fairey Fulmar">Fairey Fulmar II</a> March 1942 – Aug 1943</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Seafire" title="Supermarine Seafire">Supermarine Seafire III</a> June 1945-end of WW2</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Seafire" title="Supermarine Seafire">Supermarine Seafire F.XV</a> Aug 1945-end of WW2</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Attacker" title="Supermarine Attacker">Supermarine Attacker FB.2</a> January 1953 - May 1954</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawker_Sea_Hawk" title="Hawker Sea Hawk">Hawker Sea Hawk</a> 1953–57</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Scimitar" title="Supermarine Scimitar">Supermarine Scimitar</a> 1958–1966</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Buccaneer" title="Blackburn Buccaneer">Blackburn Buccaneer</a> 1967–1969</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=803_Naval_Air_Squadron&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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title="760 Naval Air Squadron">760</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/761_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="761 Naval Air Squadron">761</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/762_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="762 Naval Air Squadron">762</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/763_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="763 Naval Air Squadron">763</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/764_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="764 Naval Air Squadron">764</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/765_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="765 Naval Air Squadron">765</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/766_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="766 Naval Air Squadron">766</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/767_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="767 Naval Air Squadron">767</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/768_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="768 Naval Air Squadron">768</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/769_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="769 Naval Air Squadron">769</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/770_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="770 Naval Air Squadron">770</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/771_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="771 Naval Air Squadron">771</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/772_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="772 Naval Air Squadron">772</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/773_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="773 Naval Air Squadron">773</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/774_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="774 Naval Air Squadron">774</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/775_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="775 Naval Air Squadron">775</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/776_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="776 Naval Air Squadron">776</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/777_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="777 Naval Air Squadron">777</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/778_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="778 Naval Air Squadron">778</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/779_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="779 Naval Air Squadron">779</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/780_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="780 Naval Air Squadron">780</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/781_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="781 Naval Air Squadron">781</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/782_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="782 Naval Air Squadron">782</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/783_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="783 Naval Air Squadron">783</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/784_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="784 Naval Air Squadron">784</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/785_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="785 Naval Air Squadron">785</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/786_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="786 Naval Air Squadron">786</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/787_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="787 Naval Air Squadron">787</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/788_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="788 Naval Air Squadron">788</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/789_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="789 Naval Air Squadron">789</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/790_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="790 Naval Air Squadron">790</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/791_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="791 Naval Air Squadron">791</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/792_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="792 Naval Air Squadron">792</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/793_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="793 Naval Air Squadron">793</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/794_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="794 Naval Air Squadron">794</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/795_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="795 Naval Air Squadron">795</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/796_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="796 Naval Air Squadron">796</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/797_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="797 Naval Air Squadron">797</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/798_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="798 Naval Air Squadron">798</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/799_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="799 Naval Air Squadron">799</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/800_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="800 Naval Air Squadron">800</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/801_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="801 Naval Air Squadron">801</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/802_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="802 Naval Air Squadron">802</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">803</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/804_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="804 Naval Air Squadron">804</a></li> <li><u><a href="/wiki/805_Squadron_RAN" title="805 Squadron RAN">805</a></u></li> <li><a href="/wiki/806_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="806 Naval Air Squadron">806</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/807_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="807 Naval Air Squadron">807</a></li> <li><u><a href="/wiki/808_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="808 Naval Air Squadron">808</a></u></li> <li><a href="/wiki/810_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="810 Naval Air Squadron">810</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/811_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="811 Naval Air Squadron">811</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/812_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="812 Naval Air Squadron">812</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/813_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="813 Naval Air Squadron">813</a></li> <li><u><a href="/wiki/816_Squadron_RAN" title="816 Squadron RAN">816</a></u></li> <li><u><a href="/wiki/817_Squadron_RAN" title="817 Squadron RAN">817</a></u></li> <li><a href="/wiki/818_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="818 Naval Air Squadron">818</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/819_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="819 Naval Air Squadron">819</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/821_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="821 Naval Air Squadron">821</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/822_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="822 Naval Air Squadron">822</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/823_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="823 Naval Air Squadron">823</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/826_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="826 Naval Air Squadron">826</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/827_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="827 Naval Air Squadron">827</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/828_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="828 Naval Air Squadron">828</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/829_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="829 Naval Air Squadron">829</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/830_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="830 Naval Air Squadron">830</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/831_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="831 Naval Air Squadron">831</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/832_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="832 Naval Air Squadron">832</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/833_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="833 Naval Air Squadron">833</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/834_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="834 Naval Air Squadron">834</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/835_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="835 Naval Air Squadron">835</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/836_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="836 Naval Air Squadron">836</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/837_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="837 Naval Air Squadron">837</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/838_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="838 Naval Air Squadron">838</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/840_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="840 Naval Air Squadron">840</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/841_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="841 Naval Air Squadron">841</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/842_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="842 Naval Air Squadron">842</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/848_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="848 Naval Air Squadron">848</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/849_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="849 Naval Air Squadron">849</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/850_Naval_Air_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="850 Naval Air Squadron">850</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/851_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="851 Naval Air Squadron">851</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/852_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="852 Naval Air Squadron">852</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/853_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="853 Naval Air Squadron">853</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/854_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="854 Naval Air Squadron">854</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/855_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="855 Naval Air Squadron">855</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/856_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="856 Naval Air Squadron">856</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/857_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="857 Naval Air Squadron">857</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/860_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="860 Naval Air Squadron">860</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/861_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="861 Naval Air Squadron">861</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/870_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="870 Naval Air Squadron">870</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/871_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="871 Naval Air Squadron">871</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/877_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="877 Naval Air Squadron">877</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/878_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="878 Naval Air Squadron">878</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/879_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="879 Naval Air Squadron">879</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/880_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="880 Naval Air Squadron">880</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/881_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="881 Naval Air Squadron">881</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/882_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="882 Naval Air Squadron">882</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/883_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="883 Naval Air Squadron">883</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/884_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="884 Naval Air Squadron">884</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/885_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="885 Naval Air Squadron">885</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/886_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="886 Naval Air Squadron">886</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/887_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="887 Naval Air Squadron">887</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/888_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="888 Naval Air Squadron">888</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/889_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="889 Naval Air Squadron">889</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/890_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="890 Naval Air Squadron">890</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/891_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="891 Naval Air Squadron">891</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/892_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="892 Naval Air Squadron">892</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/893_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="893 Naval Air Squadron">893</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/894_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="894 Naval Air Squadron">894</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/895_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="895 Naval Air Squadron">895</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/896_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="896 Naval Air Squadron">896</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/897_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="897 Naval Air Squadron">897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/898_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="898 Naval Air Squadron">898</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/899_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="899 Naval Air Squadron">899</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1701_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1701 Naval Air Squadron">1701</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1702_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1702 Naval Air 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Squadron">1832</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1833_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1833 Naval Air Squadron">1833</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1834_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1834 Naval Air Squadron">1834</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1835_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1835 Naval Air Squadron">1835</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1836_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1836 Naval Air Squadron">1836</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1837_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1837 Naval Air Squadron">1837</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1838_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1838 Naval Air Squadron">1838</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1839_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1839 Naval Air Squadron">1839</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1840_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1840 Naval Air Squadron">1840</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1841_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1841 Naval Air Squadron">1841</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1842_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1842 Naval Air Squadron">1842</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1843_Naval_Air_Squadron" title="1843 Naval Air 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