Post 1952 Royal Navy (RN) Fleet Air Arm (FAA) Pilot Wing Full Size Badge

c1950s vintage paper backed padded, F.A.A. Pilot's wing full size qualification badge R.N. Removed from uniform. GC.


The Royal Navy regained its own air service in 1937, when the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force (covering carrier borne aircraft, but not the seaplanes and maritime reconnaissance aircraft of Coastal Command) was returned to Admiralty control and renamed the Naval Air Branch. In 1952, the service returned to its pre-1937 name of the Fleet Air Arm. The Station base names are still called RNAS.

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