Fleet Air Arm Squadrons

The Fleet Air Arm has both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft, at a number of bases across the UK. The squadrons are named No. # NAS, where No. is an abbreviation for the word Number; # is a cardinal number; and NAS stands for Naval Air Squadron. The nomenclature[?] used by the FAA is to assign numbers in the 700-799 range to training and operational conversion squadrons and numbers in the 800-899 range to operational squadrons.

Present squadrons active in the FAA are:

• No. 700 NAS[?]
• No. 702 NAS[?]
• No. 727 NAS[?]
• No. 750 NAS[?]
• No. 771 NAS[?]
• No. 792 NAS[?]
• No. 800 NAS[?]
• No. 801 NAS[?]
• No. 814 NAS[?]
• No. 815 NAS[?]
• No. 820 NAS[?]
• No. 824 NAS[?]
• No. 845 NAS[?]
• No. 846 NAS[?]
• No. 847 NAS[?]
• No. 848 NAS[?]
• No. 849 NAS[?]
• No. 899 NAS[?]