1830 Naval Air Squadron Explained

Unit Name:	1830 Naval Air Squadron
Dates:	1943-45 1947-57
Command Structure:	Fleet Air Arm

1830 Naval Air Squadron (1830 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

From 1830 NAS participated in Operation Robson over Sumatra in December 1944.

Naval Reserve

1831 Squadron reformed at RNAS Abbotsinch (HMS Sanderling (now Glasgow Airport) in Renfrewshire on 15 August 1947 as part of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, equipped with Fairey Firefly fighters.^[1]

References

Bibliography

Book: Sturtivant . R . Ballance . T . The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm . 1994 . Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd . Tonbridge, Kent, UK . 0-85130-223-8 .
Book: Winton, John . The Forgotten Fleet: The British Navy in the Pacific, 1944–1945 . Coward-McCann . New York . 1970 .

External links

Web site: A History of 1830 Naval Air Squadron . 18 December 2021 . The Royal Navy Research Archive.

Notes and References

Web site: A history of 1830 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Air Squadron . 29 December 2022 . The Royal Navy Research Archive.