List of Fleet Air Arm groups

This is a list of Fleet Air Arm groups of the Royal Navy, that were either formed or planned.

The Fleet Air Arm squadrons, embarked on the Fleet and Light Fleet aircraft carriers, were placed into Air Groups to align with US Navy policy, once World War II in Europe had ended, to support operations in the Pacific War against the Japanese, in 1945.

[1] The carrier air groups were divided up based on the aircraft carrier class and using a standardised strength approach of Fleet Air Arm squadrons and aircraft type.

[2] During World War II the creation of a 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 12th and 22nd Carrier Air Group also was planned.

The surrender of Japan rendered these new carrier air groups unnecessary, and they were never formed.

HMS Implacable of the British Pacific Fleet. The carrier's aircraft (twenty two Supermarine Seafires) line the deck whilst the ships company are stretching along it. Forward is the Ship's Scottish pipe band, the only one of its kind in the Royal Navy.