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Royal Naval Air
Station Hatston (RNAS
Hatston, also
called HMS Sparrowhawk), was a
military airfield located one mile to the
north west of Kirkwall, on...
- into
Orkney and Shetland. On the
western edge of the town,
surrounded by
Hatston Industrial Estate,
there is a
prehistoric monument,
known as the "Grain...
-
built at the
instigation of Capt. Fresson, who had
proved to the Navy at
Hatston (Orkney) that to
maintain all-round
landing facilities over the winter...
- (Ardgour Road, Caol) (t/a
Stagecoach in Lochaber)
Kirkwall (Scott's Road
Hatston Industrial Estate) (t/a
Stagecoach in Orkney)
Portree (Park Road) (t/a...
- over Bergen. But at 16:00 a
Martin Maryland managed to take off from RNAS
Hatston and made it to
Bergen where it
could see the
harbour was empty. On receiving...
- 1939 from part of 769 NAS Sea
Gladiators which had been
detached to RNAS
Hatston. The
squadron was
merged into 800 NAS in June 1944 and
subsequently reformed...
-
Squadron (771 NAS), a
Fleet Requirements Unit (FRU),
arrived from RNAS
Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk)
around the same time as 700 NAS
arrived and sta**** at...
- in 1931. HMS
Sparrowhawk was the name
given to
Royal Naval Air
Station Hatston, a
naval air
station of the
Fleet Air Arm
during World War II . HMS Sparrow...
- Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), Hampshire, on 15 April. The
squadron moved to RNAS
Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk), Orkney, Scotland, in June 1942.
During a
period of frequent...
-
British service in
August 1940, with 804
Naval Air Squadron,
stationed at
Hatston in the
Orkney Islands. The
Martlet Mk I did not have a wing
folding mechanism...
