[5] The squadron provided a Flight at Inverness Airport to enable a connection with trains from London.

Handley Page Harrow were also acquired, designed as a bomber-transport hybrid, some of these aircraft were modified to carry aero engines and other larger freight items.

[5] Identification markings comprised the air station name Merlin and an individual number on most of the aircraft.

[2] When 781 Naval Air Squadron disbanded on 31 July 1945, 782 NAS took over part of its role and had detached Flights of de Havilland Dominie, a short-haul biplane airliner, being by then stationed at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), in Hampshire, England, RNAS Eglinton (HMS Gannet), in County Down, Northern Ireland and Inverness In the Scottish Highlands.

In July 1953 the FOFT moved to RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron), in Somerset, England, which meant the squadron’s tasks were reduced and it eventually disbanded on 9 October 1953.