806 Naval Air Squadron

806 Naval Air Squadron
806 Naval Air Squadron
	Squadron badge
Active	1940–1943; 1945–1947; 1948; 1953–1955; 1957–1960;
Disbanded	15 December 1960
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Navy
Type	Single-seat fighter squadron
Role	Carrier-based fighter squadron
Part of	Fleet Air Arm
Mottos	Sursum in pugnam; (Latin for 'Up and into the fight')
Aircraft	See Aircraft flown section for full list.
Engagements	World War II Norwegian Campaign; Operation Dynamo; Battle of the Mediterranean; Western Desert Campaign; Malta convoys; Battle of Cape Matapan; Battle of Crete; Battle of Madagascar;
Decorations	Boyd Trophy 1955
Battle honours	Norway 1940; Dunkirk 1940; Mediterranean 1940–1941; Libya 1940–1941; Malta Convoys 1941-42; Matapan 1941; Crete 1941; Diego Suarez 1942;
Insignia
Squadron Badge Description	Per fess wavy red and barry wavy of six white and blue, issuant from base a dexter cubit arm pale armoured proper grasping a flash of lightning in bend gold (1945)
Identification Markings	L6A+ (Skua/Roc); 6A+ (Fulmar/Sea Gladiator 1940-41); single letters (Hurricane); 6A+ (Fulmar November 1941); 0A+ (Fulmar on Illustrious); 8A+ (Martlet 1942); 6A+ (Seafire); 111-123 (Seafire August 1946); 161-174 (Sea Hawk March 1953); 175-190 (Sea Hawk January 1957);
Fin Carrier Codes	Y:R (Seafire August 1946); C (Sea Hawk March 1953); J:E:A (Sea Hawk January 1957);

806 Naval Air Squadron (806 NAS), sometimes alluded to as 806 Squadron, is an inactive Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It was most recently active with the Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 fighter and ground attack aircraft from April 1958 until December 1960. Additionally, it was the final front-line squadron of the Fleet Air Arm to operate the Sea Hawk, with its last deployment aboard HMS Albion before disbanding at RNAS Brawdy.

It existed on a number of occasions from February 1940 to December 1960 and saw active service in the Norwegian campaign, the Dunkirk evacuation and the Malta Convoys. During the early years of the Second World War it operated with a variety of fighter aircraft including Blackburn Skua, Blackburn Roc, Fairey Fulmar, Gloster Sea Gladiator, Hawker Hurricane and Grumman Martlet. It later flew Supermarine Seafire but the war ended before it saw action. It briefly flew Hawker Sea Fury, de Havilland Sea Hornet and de Havilland Sea Vampire in 1948.