899 Naval Air Squadron

899 Naval Air Squadron
Active15 December 1942 – 27 September 1945
7 November 1955 – 3 January 1957
1 February 1961 – 23 January 1972
31 March 1980 – 23 March 2005
Country United Kingdom
Branch Royal Navy
Part ofFleet Air Arm
Battle honoursSicily 1943
Salerno 1943
Aegean 1944
South France 1944[1]
Falklands 1982

899 Naval Air Squadron (899 NAS) was a squadron of the Fleet Air Arm of the United Kingdom.

It was most recently based at RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron), in Somerset, as the British Aerospace Sea Harrier FA2 training squadron until it was decommissioned in March 2005 prior to the stand-up of 800 Naval Air Squadron with the British Aerospace Harrier GR7 at RAF Cottesmore, in Rutland.

  1. ^ "Fleet Air Arm Archive — Battle Honours of the Fleet Air Arm". Archived from the original on 20 June 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2014.