page_title: 815 Naval Air Squadron
section_title: Avenger and Gannet
hierarchical_section_title: 815 Naval Air Squadron / History / Post war / Avenger and Gannet
caption_attribution_description: A Royal Navy Fairey Gannet AS.4.
context_page_description: 815 Naval Air Squadron is a squadron of the Fleet Air Arm, part of the Royal Navy, based at RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset; it is the Navy's front line Wildcat Naval Air Squadron. It comprises AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA.2 helicopters and is the largest helicopter squadron in western Europe.
context_section_description: The squadron disbanded some time after the war and reformed in 1947 from 744 Squadron, flying Grumman Avengers, which were replaced with Fairey Gannets, the last fixed-wing aircraft of the squadron when it disbanded at RNAS Culdrose (HMS Seahawk), July 1958.
caption: A Fairey Gannet AS.4
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