Del'd: 24 - 1944 to 1948






Fleet Air Arm R-4 Hoverfly

The Admiralty had seen demonstrations of the Sikorsky XR-4 and been impressed with its anti-submarine potential and its small size offered the chance of ship-board operation. This had been confirmed by trials aboard the mv Daghestan during Nov 1943. The first was accepted in Mar 1944 in the USA and a second batch was sent by sea to the UK aboard HMS Thane (D48) at the end of Dec 1944. Others were kept in the USA to provide training for RN pilots. 240 were ordered for the UK (including the RAF) but many were cancelled at the end of WWII and only 24 served in the Fleet Air Arm.


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AW139 Maintenance in Poland, 07-Dec-16 : Heli-One, CHC MRO provider, announced its Poland’s facility opened in 2014 now received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval to provide base maintenance service to the AW139 helicopter

Bristow Commemoration of Helicopter Landing, 26-Sep-16 : Seventy years ago, on September 24, 1946, pioneering helicopter pilot, Lieutenant Alan Bristow Royal Navy, became the first Briton to land a helicopter on the deck of a naval frigate at sea




Units

YearsUnitsbold : Current base of the Unit
1947/50705 NASPortland Heliport
HMS Siskin
1946/47703 NASThorney Island
1945/47771 NAS Lee-on-Solent
Portland Heliport
Twatt

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