766 Naval Air Squadron

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History 
15. April 1942 766 NAS formed at RAF Machrihanish
25. November 1954 766 NAS disbanded RNAS Culdrose
18. October 1955 766 NAS reformed at RNAS Yeovilton
10. December 1970 766 NAS disbanded RNAS Yeovilton
Planes:
 

 

 

 Apr. 1942 - Nov. 1944
Swordfish I, II, III		      
 

 

 

 Apr. 1942 - Oct. 1943
Albacore I		      
 

 

 

 Aug. 1942 - Sep. 1944
Fulmar I, II		      
 

 

 

 Jan. 1944 - Mar. 1949
Anson I		      
 

 

 

 Nov. 1944 - Mar. 1945
Sea Hurricane IIc		      
 

 

 

 Harvard IIb, III
Feb. 1946 - Nov. 1949		      
 

 

 

 Oct. 1944 - Nov. 1954
Firefly FR.1, T.1, T.2		  
 

 

 

 Nov. 1946 - Jun. 1947
Oxford		      
 

 

 

 1945 - Jun. 1946
Martinet TT.1		      
 

 

 

 Aug. 1946 - Sep. 1947
Seafire III		      
 

 

 

 Jun. 1947 - Nov. 1951
Seafire F.15, F.17		      
 

 

 

 Sep. 1951 - Jul. 1952
Sea Fury T.20		    
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 Jan. 1956 - Jul. 1956
Sea Vampire T.22		      
 

 

 

 Oct. 1955 - Aug. 1956
Sea Venom FAW. 20		      
 

 

 

 Aug. 1956 - Oct. 1960
Sea Venom FAW. 21		    
 

 

 

 Oct. 1959 - May 1968
Sea Vixen FAW-1		    
 

 

 

 Jul. 1965 - Dec. 1970
Sea Vixen FAW-2		    
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766 NAS Deployments 
766 Sqn was a second-line Squadron and not deployed on a carrier.-
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766 NAS Home Port Assignments
1942 - 1954
RAF Machrihanish, Argyll & Bute 15. Apr. 1942  7. Jul. 1943
RNAS Inskip, Lancastershire  7. Jul. 1943 20. Jan 1946
RNAS Rattray, Aberdeen 20. Jan 1946 4. Aug. 1946
RNAS Lossiemouth, Moray 4. Aug. 1946 3. Oct. 1953
RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall 3. Oct. 1953 25. Nov. 1954
1955 - 1970
RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset 18. Oct. 1955 24. Nov. 1956
RNAS Merryfield, Somerset 24. Nov. 1956 20. Jan. 1958
RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset 20. Jan. 1958 10. Dec. 1970
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766 NAS Commanding Officers 
1942 - 1954
Lt-Cdr (A) R.E. Bibby, DSO, RNVR 15. Apr. 1942 24. Jul. 1943
Lt-Cdr W. F. C. Garthwaite, DSC, RNVR 24. Jul. 1943 3. Aug. 1944
Lt-Cdr E. B. Morgan, RANVR 3. Aug. 1944 20. Jan. 1946
Mjr V. B. G. Chesman, DSO, MBE, DSC, RM 20. Jan. 1946 1. Dec 1947
Lt-Cdr T. W. Harrington, DSC & Bar, RN 1. Dec 1947 30. Mar. 1949
Lt-Cdr A. W. Bloomer, RN 30. Mar. 1949 21. Jan. 1951
Lt-Cdr J. M. Henry, RN 21. Jan. 1951 2. Dec. 1952
Lt-Cdr D. W. Winterton, RN 2. Dec. 1952 30. Oct. 1953
Lt-Cdr P. Carmichael, RN 30. Oct. 1953 10. Feb. 1954
Lt-Cdr E. F. Pritchard, RN 10. Feb. 1954 25. Nov. 1954
1955 - 1970
Lt-Cdr L. Jeyes, RN 18. Oct. 1955 4. Jan. 1956
Lt-Cdr P. J. Young, RN 4. Jan. 1956 6. Feb. 1956
Lt-Cdr I. McKenzie, RN 6. Feb. 1956 16. Apr. 1956
Lt-Cdr G. R. J. Elgar, RN 16. Apr. 1956 11. Mar. 1957
Lt-Cdr W. A. M. Ferguson, DSO, RN 11. Mar. 1957 1. May 1958
Lt-Cdr K. Sinclair, RN 1. May 1958 29. Sep. 1959
Lt-Cdr J. F. Blunden, RN 29. Sep. 1959 14. Jan. 1960
Lt-Cdr W. J. Carter, RN 14. Jan. 1960 9. May 1960
Lt-Cdr K. Sinclair, RN 9. May 1960 28. Apr. 1961
Lt-Cdr P. B. Reynolds, RN 28. Apr. 1961 15. Feb. 1963
Lt-Cdr G. P. Carne, RN 15. Feb. 1963 24. Aug. 1964
Cdr K. E. Kemp, RN 24. Aug. 1964 10. Nov. 1965
Lt-Cdr B. G. Youns, RN 10. Nov. 1965 14. Okt. 1966
Lt-Cdr G. W. G. Hunt, RN 14. Okt. 1966 3. Jun. 1968
Lt-Cdr D.J. Dunbar-Dempsey, RN 3. Jun. 1968 23. Jul. 1969
Lt-Cdr G. L. Shaw, RN 23. Jul. 1969 10. Dec. 1970
766B NAS 1959 - 1960
Lt-Cdr K. Sinclair, RN 22. Oct. 1959 24. Oct. 1960
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History 

1942 - 1954
No. 766 NAS was originally to have formed at RNAS Lee-on-Solent in 1939 as a Seaplane School and pool, but after several postpnements this plan was abandoned. Instead it fomed at RAF Machrihanish on 15. April 1942 as a Night ALT Course equipped with Swordfish. On 7. July 1943 it moved to RNAS Inskip to becone part of No.1 Naval Operational Training Unit, and by May 1944 was operating 31 Swordfish, including 3 used by a photographic Flight. In October 1944 Fireflies arrived, initial equipment being 14 aircraft given up by by 1772 NAS.
766 NAS moved to RNAS Rattray on 20 January 1946, and then to RNAS Lossiemouth on 4 August 1946 where it also received Seafires, becoming Part I of the Operational Flying School course. A few Sea Fury T.20s arrived on September 1951, there being given up ten months later. On 3 Otober 1953 the squadron moved to RNAS Culdrose, where it disbanded on 25. November 1954.

1955 - 1970
On 18. October 1955 766 NAS reforned at RNAS Yeovilton from 890 NAS as an All Weather Fighter pool, equipped with 8 Sea Venoms. Owing to reconstruction of the RNAS Yeovilton runways it moved out to RNAS Merryfield on 24 November 1956. From October 1957 it operated as a Naval All Weather Fighter School, taking over the task of training naval pilots and observers in this work previously performed by No.238 Operational Conversion Unit at RAF North Luffenham. Moving back to RNAS Yeovilton on 20. January 1958, it became the All Weather Fighter Training Squadron in May 1959. Sea Vixens FAW.1s arrived in October 1959, and thes were designated No. 766B Squadron until the remaining Sea Venom fjnally left on 24 October 1960. Sea Vixen FAW.2s began to arrive in July 1965, but the last of the FAW.Is did not depart until May 1968. The squadron disbanded at Yeovilton on 10 December 1970, its task and aircraft going to 890 NAS.

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last update 14. April 2014

written 1. March 2011

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