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aircraft development work. It will also provide support to the Merlin HM2 Crowsnest airborne early warning programme and support any future
Testing and Evaluation programmes for the Merlin HC4/4A, the Wildcat HMA2 and the Wildcat AH1 helicopters. Support to various weapons integration programmes will
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X Flight, as an anti-submarine trials and development unit at RNAS Eglinton (HMS Gannet) and continued in this role until 31 October 1956 when it was disbanded. The squadron was engaged with trials to support the development of search receivers, which were designed to detect submarine radar. A Fairey
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helicopters, although this role ended on disbandment at
Eglinton. By 1953, 744 NAS also operated as the Station Flight, but again this ended on disbandment, which took place on 1 March 1954. However, on the same day, the squadron reformed at
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be provided, and with the initial Air and Space
Warfare Centre's focus also including the Testing and Evaluation of electronic warfare and combat air systems, it will develop a modelling and simulation strategy.
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Grumman AS.5 Avenger, 'XB355' of 744 Naval Air Squadron
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Ballance, Theo; Howard, Lee; Sturtivant, Ray (2016).
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2708:This United Kingdom navy-related article is a
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1142:Fleet Air Arm Association (19 October 2018).
987:Fleet Air Arm Association (19 October 2018).
731:(Detachment 6 March 1944 - 29 September 1945)
1331:The Squadrons and Units of the Fleet Air Arm
1096:The Squadrons and Units of the Fleet Air Arm
527:Royal Navy Merlin HM2 Crowsnest ASaC variant
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301:British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
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715:Royal Naval Air Station Maydown (HMS
666:Naval air stations and other airbases
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672:naval air stations of the Royal Navy
2675:Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm
1348:Sturtivant, R; Ballance, T (1994).
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1350:The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm
1333:. Air Britain Historians Limited.
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183:AgustaWestland Merlin HC4/4A
130:Air and Space Warfare Centre
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193:AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA2
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989:"744 NAS Commissioning"
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164:Nemo solus satis sapit
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