816 Naval Air Squadron

816 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed at the start of the Second World War.

The squadron formed aboard HMS Furious in October 1939 with 9 Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers for anti-submarine duty on convoys between the UK and Canada

In 1948 it was re-formed as 816 Squadron RAN an Australian squadron with the Fairey Firefly and embarked on HMAS Sydney.

Battle honours

• Norway 1940,
• Narvik 1940,
• Malta Convoys 1941,
• Mediterranean 1941,
• Atlantic 1943,
• Arctic 1944,
• Normandy 1944

Aircraft operated

• Fairey Swordfish I (Anti submarine Warfare, Search)
• Fairey Swordfish II (Strike)
• Supermarine Seafire Ib & L.IIc (Strike)
• Grumman Wildcat V (Strike)
• Fairey Barracuda II (Torpedo Bomber)
• Fairey Firefly FR.I (Fighter Reconnaissance)
• Fairey Firefly NF.I (Night Fighter)

See also

• List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons

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