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Lee-on-Solent

Major
Also known as: Daedalus / Daedalus East / Daedalus West / Faraday Business Park / HMS Ariel / HMS Daedalus / Lee / Lee-on-Solent Aerodrome / RAF Lee-on-Solent / RAF Station, Lee-on-Solent / RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent / RNAS Lee-on-Solent / Solent Airport / Solent Airport Daedalus / Swordfish Business Park
County: Hampshire
Current Status: Aviation / Emergency services support
Date: Opened July 1917
Current Use: Active
Used By: RAF / RNAS / FAA / Civil / US Navy
Landing Surface Types: Water, later unpaved/water, later paved/water, later paved

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 01/07/2013):

  • Airport Express Connections
  • BN Aerosystems Ltd
  • BN Defence Ltd
  • Bournemouth Avionics Limited
  • CEMAST (Fareham College)
  • Fareham Innovation Centre
  • HMS Sultan HIVE
  • Hovercraft Museum
  • Lee Flying Association
  • Lee-on-the-Solent Library
  • Lee on the Solent Multi-Purpose Driving Test Centre
  • LIOS Bikes Ltd
  • The Wyvern

Notable Past Associated Organisations:

  • The Swordfish

Main unit(s) present:

  • No 1 Gunnery Co-operation Flight

  • No 2 AACU

  • 3rd Naval Fighter Wing

  • No 10 Group

  • No 15 (General Reconnaissance) Group

  • No 16 (Reconnaissance) Group

  • No 16 Sqn

  • No 17 Gp Comm Flight

  • No 17 (Training) Group

  • No 18 (Reconnaissance) Group

  • 20th Carrier Air Group

  • No 26 Sqn

  • No 42 Sqn

  • 51st Miscellaneous Air Group

  • No 63 Sqn

  • No 202 Sqn

  • No 209 TDS

  • No 407 (Fleet Fighter) Flight
  • No 407 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight
  • No 440 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight
  • No 441 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight
  • No 441 (Fleet Spotter Reconnaissance) Flight
  • No 442 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight
  • No 443 (Fleet Spotter Reconnaissance) Flight
  • No 444 (Fleet Reconnaissance) Flight
  • No 444 (Fleet Spotter Reconnaissance) Flight
  • No 445 (Fleet Spotter Reconnaissance) Flight

  • No 700H Flight

  • No 701 (Catapult) Flight

  • No 701 Sqn

  • No 702 Sqn

  • No 703 Sqn

  • No 705 Sqn

  • No 708 Sqn

  • No 710 Sqn

  • No 712 Sqn

  • No 716 (Catapult) Flight

  • No 716 Sqn

  • No 728C Sqn

  • No 739 Sqn

  • No 746 Sqn

  • No 752 Sqn

  • No 753 Sqn

  • No 754 Sqn

  • No 760 Sqn

  • No 762 Sqn

  • No 763 Sqn

  • No 764 Sqn

  • No 765 Sqn

  • No 770 Sqn

  • No 771 Sqn

  • No 772 Sqn

  • No 773 Sqn

  • No 776 Sqn

  • No 778 Sqn

  • No 780 Sqn

  • No 781 Sqn

  • No 782 Sqn

  • No 783 Sqn

  • No 784 Sqn

  • No 793 Sqn

  • No 798 Sqn

  • No 799 Sqn

  • No 800 Sqn

  • No 801 Sqn

  • No 802 Sqn

  • No 803 Sqn

  • No 804 Sqn

  • No 805 Sqn

  • No 807 Sqn

  • No 808 Sqn

  • No 809 Sqn

  • No 810 Sqn

  • No 811 Sqn

  • No 812 Sqn

  • No 813 Sqn

  • No 814 Sqn

  • No 815 Sqn

  • No 816 Sqn

  • No 817 Sqn

  • No 818 Sqn

  • No 819 Sqn

  • No 820 Sqn

  • No 821 Sqn

  • No 822 Sqn

  • No 823 Sqn

  • No 824 Sqn

  • No 825 Sqn

  • No 826 Sqn

  • No 827 Sqn

  • No 828 Sqn

  • No 829 Sqn

  • No 830 Sqn

  • No 831 Sqn

  • No 832 Sqn

  • No 833 Sqn

  • No 835 Sqn

  • No 836 Sqn

  • No 837 Sqn

  • No 841 Sqn

  • No 842 Sqn

  • No 845 Sqn

  • No 847 Sqn

  • No 848 Sqn

  • No 849 Sqn

  • No 850 Sqn

  • No 854 Sqn

  • No 855 Sqn

  • No 878 Sqn

  • No 881 Sqn

  • No 884 Sqn

  • No 885 Sqn

  • No 886 Sqn

  • No 887 Sqn

  • No 888 Sqn

  • No 891 Sqn

  • No 892 Sqn

  • No 894 Sqn

  • No 895 Sqn

  • No 897 Sqn

  • No 1021 Servicing Wing

  • No 1320 Special Duties Flight

  • No 1700 Sqn

  • No 1701 Sqn

  • No 1702 Sqn

  • No 1703 Sqn

  • No 1791 Sqn

  • No 1792 Sqn

  • No 1831 Sqn

  • Air Spotting Pool

  • Atlas Helicopters

  • Coastal Area

  • Coastal Command

  • Fleet Requirements Unit

  • Fleetlands Flying Association 

  • Floatplane Training Flight

  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency (HM Coastguard)

  • Phoenix Aviation 

  • Portsmouth Naval Gliding Centre

  • Portsmouth Naval Gliding Club 

  • RAF & Naval Co-operation School

  • RAF Seaplane Establishment

  • School of Naval Co-operation

  • School of Naval Co-operation and Aerial Navigation

  • School of RAF and Naval Co-operation and Navigation

  • Seaplane Club

  • Seaplane Training School

  • Seaplane Training Sqn

  • Solent Microlight Flying Group 

  • Southampton UAS

  • VCS-7
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Aerial view of Lee-on-Solent, 15 July 2005.

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Site of a seaplane slipway at Lee-on-Solent, 24 September 2009.

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A Jabiru SPL-450 at Lee-on-Solent, 23 September 2010. © Richard Flagg

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Gulfstream American AA-5B Tiger at Lee-on-Solent, 23 September 2010. © Richard Flagg

Footage of Sir Alan Cobham beginning his flight around Britain, 1924. Courtesy of British Pathé

Footage of Sir Alan Cobham beginning his flight around Britain, 1924. Courtesy of British Pathé

Footage from an aerial display at Lee-on-Solent, 1950. Courtesy of British Pathé

An air display at Lee-on-Solent, 1954. Courtesy of British Pathé

Lee-on-Solent Naval display, 1962. Courtesy of British Pathé

Footage of Lee-on-Solent, 1967. Courtesy of British Pathé

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Plan of Lee-on-Solent, 1918. Courtesy of Ed Andrews

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Plan of Lee-on-Solent, c. 1940s. © Royal Navy Research Archive. Click here for more information.

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