British air services in the Falklands War

Army Air Corps edit

• No. 656 Squadron Army Air Corps – (Gazelle AH.1, Scout AH.1) 6 (1), 6

Royal Marines edit

• 3 CDO Brigade Air Squadron – (Gazelle AH.1, Scout AH.1) 9 (2), 6 (1)

Fleet Air Arm edit

Royal Air Force edit

All of the four-engined aircraft operated from Wideawake Airfield, Ascension Island, but flew in the war zone.

• No. 1(F) Squadron – (Harrier GR.3) 10 (4) (HMS Hermes & Port San Carlos)
• No. 18 Squadron – (Chinook HC.1) 4 (3) +1 at Wideawake
• No. 29 Squadron – (Phantom FGR.2) 3; only at Wideawake
• No. 39 Squadron – (Canberra PR.9) 2; Clandestine operations from Chile^[4][5]
• No. 42 Squadron – (Nimrod MR.2) 3
• No. 44 Squadron – (Vulcan B.2) 2
• No. 47 Squadron – (Hercules C.1) 3
• No. 50 Squadron – (Vulcan B.2) 1
• No. 51 Squadron – (Nimrod R.1) 3
• No. 55 Squadron – (Victor K.2) 10
• No. 57 Squadron – (Victor K.2) 10
• No. 70 Squadron – (Hercules C.1) 3
• No. 101 Squadron – (Vulcan B.2) 1
• No. 120 Squadron – (Nimrod MR.2) 3
• No. 201 Squadron – (Nimrod MR.2) 3
• No. 202 Squadron – (Sea King HAR.3) 1 only at Wideawake
• No. 206 Squadron – (Nimrod MR.2) 4
• No. 10 Squadron - (VC10 C.1) 14

Armament edit

• L44A1 GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun)
• 30 mm ADEN Cannon with 120–130 rounds Sea Harrier, Harrier GR.3
• AIM-9D/G Sidewinder Air-to-air missile (AAM) F-4 at Wideawake
• AIM-9L Sidewinder AAM Sea Harrier, Harrier GR.3^[6]
• AGM-45 Shrike Air-to-Surface Anti-radiation missile (ARM) Vulcan
• BAe Sea Skua Air-to-Surface anti-ship missile Lynx
• Aerospatiale AS.12 Air-to-Surface missile Wasp
• Paveway II Laser-guided bomb (LGB), 454 kg Harrier GR.3
• BL755 Cluster bomb with 147 bomblets Sea Harrier & Nimrod
• 1,000 lb General-Purpose Bomb Sea Harrier, Harrier GR.3, Vulcan & Nimrod
• SNEB Rockets Harrier GR.3, Gazelle^[7]
• Marconi Stingray Torpedo^[8]
• Mk. 46 Torpedo
• Mk. 11 Depth charge

• Human losses:
  • 2 Army Air Corps^[11]
  • 4 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron Royal Marines
  • 17 Fleet Air Arm
• Passengers
  • 1 Royal Air Force^[12]
  • 18 Special Air Service (Army)^[12]
  • 3 Royal Corps of Signals (Army)^[11][12]
• Aircraft Lost in the Air:, _{no suffix: Fleet Air Arm}
  • 2 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (hit by anti-aircraft fire during 4 May attack on Goose Green and by Roland missile during 1 June attack on Port Stanley)^[13]
  • 3 Westland Gazelle AH.1 Army and Royal Marines^[11][14]
  • 3 Harrier GR.3 RAF (shot down by shoulder-fired missile in Port Howard on 21 May, hit by anti-aircraft fire on 27 May over Goose Green and hit by ground fire near Port Stanley on 30 May)^[13]
  • 1 Scout AH.1 Royal Marines (shot down by Pucara at Goose Green on 28 May)^[13]
• Flying accidents in the war zone
  • 2 Westland Wessex HU.5 (crashed in bad weather on Fortune Glacier 22 April)^[13]
  • 2 Westland Sea King HC.4^[12] (1 lost operational accident 23 April)^[13]
  • 4 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (two 801 Sqn CAP collided over the task force on 6 May – one 800 Sqn crashed during takeoff from Hermes on 24 May – one 801 Sqn slid off deck in bad weather on 29 May)^[13]
  • 2 Westland Sea King HAS.5 (ditched on 12 May & 17 May)^[13]
  • 1 Harrier GR.3 RAF (landing accident on 8 June)^[13]
  • 1 Scout AH.1 Royal Marines (crash landed after main rotor gearbox failure over MacPhee Pond, 8 June. Recovered but written off.)^[13]
• Lost on board a ship
  • 3 Westland Lynx HAS.2 (aboard Ardent on 21 May and aboard Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor on 25 May)^[13]
  • 3 Chinook HC.1 RAF^[15]
  • 6 Westland Wessex HU.5^[15]
  • 1 Westland Wessex HAS.3 (when Glamorgan hit by shore-launched Exocet on 12 June)^[13]
• Self-destruct in Chile
  • 1 Westland Sea King HC.4 (on 20 May)^[13]
• Total

10 fixed-wing aircraft and 25 helicopters.

• British ground forces in the Falklands War
• British naval forces in the Falklands War

• British site about British Aircraft lost
• Britains Small Wars.com:
• Argentine Air Force (FAA) official site about the Malvinas/Falkland Air War
• Fleet Air Arm – RAF Role and Operations