816 Naval Air Squadron
816 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed at the start of the Second World War.
The squadron formed aboard in October 1939 with 9 Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers for anti-submarine duty on convoys between the UK and Canada
In 1948 it was re-formed as 816 Squadron RAN an Australian squadron with the Fairey Firefly and embarked on HMAS Sydney.Battle honours
- Norway 1940,
- Narvik 1940,
- Malta Convoys 1941,
- Mediterranean 1941,
- Atlantic 1943,
- Arctic 1944,
- Normandy 1944
Aircraft operated
- Fairey Swordfish I
- Fairey Swordfish II
- Supermarine Seafire Ib & L.IIc
- Grumman Wildcat V
- Fairey Barracuda II
- Fairey Firefly FR.I
- Fairey Firefly NF.I
