781 Naval Air Squadron (781 NAS) was a

Naval Air Squadron A naval air squadron (NAS) is the title of naval aviation squadrons in some countries. Poland The Polish ''Morski Dywizjon Lotniczy'' #Naval Air Squadron# was formed in 1920 with two ''Escadrille''s# United Kingdom The squadrons of the Fleet Air ...

of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

Aircraft operated

The squadron operated a variety of different aircraft and versions between 1947 & 1981:

North American Harvard The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air forces ...

T.2b & T.3 * Hawker Sea Fury F.10, FB.11 & T.20 * Gloster Meteor T.7 * Fairey Swordfish TS.3 * de Havilland Vampire T.11/22 * de Havilland Sea Vampire T.22 *

Boulton Paul Sea Balliol The Boulton Paul Balliol and Sea Balliol are monoplane advanced trainer aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Boulton Paul Aircraft. On 17 May 1948, it became the world's first single-engined turboprop aircraft to ...

T.21 *

de Havilland Sea Devon The de Havilland DH.104 Dove is a British short-haul airliner developed and manufactured by de Havilland. The design, which was a monoplane successor to the pre-war Dragon Rapide biplane, came about from the Brabazon Committee report whic ...

C.20 *

Percival Sea Prince The Percival Prince is a British light transport of the early postwar period. It was a twin-engine, high-wing, cantilever monoplane of all-metal stressed-skin construction; the undercarriage was of retractable, tricycle type. Development T ...

C.1, C.2 & T.1 *

de Havilland Tiger Moth The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth is a 1930s British biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland and built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and other operators as a primary trainer aircraft. ...

T.2 *

Westland Whirlwind Westland or Westlands may refer to: Places *Westlands, an affluent neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi, Kenya * Westlands, Staffordshire, a suburban area and ward in Newcastle-under-Lyme *Westland, a peninsula of the Shetland Mainland near Vaila, ...

HAR.1, HAR.3, HAS.7 & HAS.22 * Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 * Westland Wessex HU.5 * de Havilland Sea Heron C.2 * de Havilland Heron C.4 & CC.4 * de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10

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* 700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons Military units and formations established in 1940 Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War II {{UK-navy-stub