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Fleet Air Arm. Descended from the Royal Naval Air service - which, with the Royal Flying Corps, became part of the Royal Air Force on April 1, 1918 - the Fleet Air Arm was formed in April 1924.
FAA - Fleet Air Arm, of UK's Royal Navy.
FADEC - full authority digital engine control.
FAF - final approach fix, the point at which a published instrument approach begins. ...
Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset
Gatwick Aviation Museum, Charlwood, Surrey
Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Folkestone, Kent ...
The Corsair served with the US Navy, US Marines, the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm and the Royal New Zealand Air Force (postwar, the French Aeronavale and other services), and quickly became the most capable carrier-based fighter-bomber of the war.
The first F2As to arrive in Britain were aircraft which should have gone to Belgium, by then occupied; these were flown by 805th and 885th Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm and took part in the defense of Crete, but not as front line aircraft.
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