811 Naval Air Squadron

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811 Naval Air Squadron
A Grumman Martlet fighter of 811 Squadron lands on HMS Biter after a successful action against a German Junkers Ju 290, February 1944
Active	1933–1939 1941–1944 1945–1947 1955–1956
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Navy
Role	Torpedo-bomber / fighter squadron
Part of	Fleet Air Arm
Motto(s)	Ventre à mer
Aircraft flown	Blackburn Ripon Blackburn Baffin Fairey Swordfish Hawker Sea Hurricane Vought Chesapeake Avro 652 Grumman Martlet de Havilland Sea Mosquito Hawker Sea Hawk
Battle honours	English Channel 1942 North Sea 1942 Atlantic 1943–44 Arctic 1944[1]

811 Naval Air Squadron was a unit of the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It was first founded in 1933, and served during World War II, seeing action in the battle of the Atlantic and on Russian convoys, and was eventually disbanded in 1956.