The Airwork Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU) was a civilian-operated unit of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm managed by Airwork Limited. It was established...
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Squadron. The Fleet Requirements and Air Direction Training Unit (FRADTU) was formed in 1972 by the merger of the Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU) and the...
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Airwork Services (section Fleet Requirements Unit)
Fleet Requirements Unit was relocated from Hurn to RNAS Yeovilton and amalgamated with the Air Direction Training Unit to form the Fleet Requirements...
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RNAS Twatt (HMS Tern) (section Units)
disembarked Ship's Flight Aircraft and was home to the Home Fleet Fleet Requirements Unit, 771 Naval Air Squadron. The airbase is situated near two notable...
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September 1952 with the Royal Navy, to operate the Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU) at Hurn. It used ex-Fleet Air Arm aircraft as targets to provide training...
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Air Squadron (Fleet Requirements Unit) 775 Naval Air Squadron (Fleet Requirements Unit) 777 Naval Air Squadron (Fleet Requirements Unit) 778 Naval Air...
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during World War II Fleet Requirements Unit, Royal Navy Florida Rugby Union Force Research Unit, a covert military intelligence unit of the British Army...
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RNAS Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk) (section Units)
disembarked Ship's Flight Aircraft and was home to the Home Fleet Fleet Requirements Unit, 771 Naval Air Squadron. The airbase was situated near two notable...
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Hawks were FGA.6 flown by the Airwork Limited managed "black" Fleet Requirements Unit based at Bournemouth (Hurn) Airport which retired the type in 1969...
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operational career, 16 examples were flown between 1965 and 1970 by the Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU) based at Bournemouth Airport (Hurn). The FRU was managed...
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701 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
Lee-on-Solent where it was a Helicopter Trials, Communications and Fleet Requirements Unit. It initially formed during July 1936 as a Catapult Flight operating...
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four prototypes for the Fleet Air Arm. By early 1949 the DH.110 design was expected to be adaptable to fulfil four requirements: F4/48, F5/49 (a long range...
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Sembawang Air Base (redirect from Aircraft Holding Unit, RAF Sembawang)
the conclusion of January 1946, the only remaining unit at the station was the Fleet Requirements Unit. On 26 January, 791 Naval Air Squadron integrated...
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RAF Kai Tak (section Units based at HMS Nabcatcher)
facilities for disembarked squadrons and ultimately overseeing a Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU). Concurrently, the Royal Air Force began its operations at...
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771 Naval Air Squadron (redirect from No. 771 Fleet Requirements Unit)
was formed on 24 May 1939 at HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent as a Fleet Requirements Unit with 14 Fairey Swordfish TSR biplanes. The squadron carried out...
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728 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
Naval Air Squadron during July. It reformed in August, again as a Fleet Requirements Unit, at HMS Grebe, moving immediately to RN Air Section Takali, Malta...
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779 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
(779 NAS) was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). Formed as a Fleet Requirements Unit, in October 1941...
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773 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
773 Naval Air Squadron initially formed during June 1940, as a Fleet Requirements Unit in Bermuda, in support of ships on the North America and West Indies...
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pilot reserve for Fleet Air Arm catapult squadrons. The other unit was 771 Naval Air Squadron, formed out of a fleet requirements unit, with a northern...
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727 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
Squadron is a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It was formed in 1943 as a Fleet Requirements Unit, being disbanded...
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772 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
disbanded during September 1995. 772 Naval Air Squadron formed as a Fleet Requirements Unit out of 'Y' Flight from 771 Naval Air Squadron at RNAS Lee-on-Solent...
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jet-powered de Havilland Sea Venom. The NF.21 later equipped the Fleet Requirements Units at Hal Far, Malta, and St Davids, West Wales. One Sea Hornet F...
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722 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN), created on 7 September 1944, as a Fleet Requirements Unit, where...
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770 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
at HMS Merlin, RNAS Donibristle, on New Year’s Day 1941, as a Fleet Requirements Unit out of 771 Naval Air Squadron’s 'X' Flight. It moved to HMS Jackdaw...
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797 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
carrier-based dive bomber/fighter aircraft. It was tasked as a Fleet Requirements Unit. Unit personnel included new arrivals, along with ground crew from...
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721 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
Northern Ireland, at the beginning of March 1945, as a Fleet Requirements Unit for the British Pacific Fleet. Initially equipped with Vultee Vengeance target...
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Airways Fleet Requirements Unit, civilian operated unit, run by Airwork Ltd for the Fleet Air Arm Australia WG725 – HR.3 under restoration at the Fleet Air...
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705 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
squadron was re-formed briefly in 1945 and then again in 1947 as a fleet requirements unit to evaluate naval use of helicopters. Since the 1950s the squadron...
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788 Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
RNAS Tanga (HMS Kilele) in Tanganyika, East Africa to become a Fleet Requirements Unit and relocating almost immediately to RN Air Section Port Reitz...
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728B Naval Air Squadron (category 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons)
on 1 January 1945 at RNAS Takali (HMS Goldfinch), Malta, as a Fleet Requirements Unit. It was initially equipped with five Miles Martinet target tug...
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