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You might want to check the following link and look closely towards the bottom of the page:
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/s...changeNav/3533
In case the link doesn't work, it's the RN website biography of Vice Admiral Adrian Johns, the current Second Sea Lord. According to his career history:
On relinquishing command and promotion to Flag Rank, he took up his appointment as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff in May 2003 and was selected as Rear Admiral Fleet Air Arm in October 2003.
Looks remarkably like an RN appointment with 'Fleet Air Arm' in the title to me!
Just to correct any misconception, the Fleet Air Arm is alive and well. Some of us may be OPCOM LAND or STC as part of JHC or JFH, but I'm pretty sure you'll find that any Naval aviator is still under the Full Command of CINCFLEET. We are all still Naval personnel and proud of the fact that we are part of the FAA. It has an ethos and esprit-de-corps that has existed since the formation of the Royal Naval Air Service and is one of the reasons I joined this organisation rather than becoming a Crab. Our structures may have changed since SDR and we're a little more spread out, but we're still here!!
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