Wildcat Training to No.825 NAS

摘要

No.825 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm was reformed on August 1 at RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset, taking over the seven AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcats of No.700W NAS. A ceremony was held at RNAS Yeovilton on July 30 to mark the decommissioning of No.700W NAS, which helped develop the Wildcat and tactics for its use over five years. The newly re-established squadron is responsible for training crews and support personnel for the Wildcat HMA2 and one of its first tasks will be to undertake operational sea training. It will also form the first flights for deployment on the Royal Navy's warships. These will be used to replace those assigned to No.815 Squadron equipped with the Lynx HMA8, which the Wildcat is due to replace by 2017. No.825 Squadron has only been active once in the last 50 years. Between May and September 1982 it flew Westland Sea Kings in the Falklands conflict.