List of aircraft wings of the Royal Navy
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This is a list of aircraft wings of the Royal Navy. A Wing designation consisted a number to differentiate each one and a simple label for the role of the wing. Each wing was formed of a small number of Fleet Air Arm Naval Air Squadrons and were mostly either a fighter wing or a torpedo, bomber and reconnaissance wing, and there included a proposed Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship) wing.
Royal Navy air wings
The Fleet Air Arm squadrons, embarked on the Fleet and Light Fleet aircraft carriers, were grouped into explicit Wings from June 1943. Due to the existing Royal Air Force Wings having the same number designation, each Fleet Air Arm Wing contained the word Naval in its title. The Wings were each allocated a unique number and the name of each wing also contained the designated wings role. There were two significant roles with each wing being either a Fighter wing or a Torpedo Bomber Reconnaissance wing, with the latter known as a TBR wing.
Beginning on 25 October 1943, the establishment of certain Royal Navy air wings commenced. However, not all of the air wings that the Fleet Air Arm intended to create were ultimately realised. The air wings that were part of the British Pacific Fleet were reorganized into new Carrier Air Groups, resulting in their disbandment.
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