728 Naval Air Squadron

728 Naval Air Squadron
Active	1945-67^[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Navy
Part of	Fleet Air Arm

728 Naval Air Squadron (728 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

Aircraft operated

The squadron operated a variety of different aircraft and versions:^[2]

Avro Anson I
Baltimore IV & V
Bristol Beaufighter II, X & T.10
Bristol Beaufort I
Boulton Paul Defiant TT.1
Hawker Hurricane IIc
Miles Martinet TT.1
de Havilland Mosquito B.25, T.3, PR.16 & TT.39
Airspeed Oxford I
Supermarine Seafire L.IIC, III, XV & F.17
Supermarine Sea Otter 2
Fairey Swordfish I & II
Supermarine Walrus
Vickers Wellington XIV
Westland Dragonfly HR.3
Beech Expediter C.2
Fairey Gannet T.2
North American Harvard T.3
de Havilland Heron C.2
Gloster Meteor T.7 & TT.20
de Havilland Sea Devon C.20
de Havilland Sea Hornet FR.20
de Havilland Sea Vampire F.20
Short Sturgeon TT.3
Westland Whirlwind HAR.3 & HAS.22

References

Citations

↑ Sturtivant, Ballance 1994, p. 50.
↑ Sturtivant, Ballance 1994, p. 51.

Bibliography

Sturtivant, R; Ballance, T (1994). The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-223-8.

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons
Currently active squadrons	700 703 705 727 736 750 814 815 820 824 825 829 845 846 847 849
Inactive squadrons	701 702 704 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 728 728B 728C 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 816 817 818 819 821 822 823 826 827 828 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 838 840 841 842 848 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 860 861 870 871 877 878 879 880 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 891 892 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 1700 1701 1702 1703 1770 1771 1772 1790 1791 1792 1820 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853
Display teams	Fred's Five Simon's Sircus Blue Herons Sharks Black Cats
Other units	Royal Navy Historic Flight
Units in bold subsequently commissioned into Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm Units in italics subsequently commissioned into Marine-Luchtvaartdienst

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