The naval air force (AVIA) is the name of the naval Aéronautique French. It forms one of the four large components of the French Marine. It is resulting from fusion between the forces of embarked aviation and the maritime aviation of patrol on June 19th, 1998.

This maritime force is placed under the command of a general officer of navy (ALAVIA) based with Toulon which is responsible for the administration, the drive and the operational conditioning of its elements (organic command).

The personnel working directly on the aircraft is composed of the specialities: Carrier, Avionics and ARMAE (“Boom”), for the maintenance part and implemented, and Mecbo and DENAE for the flying part.

History

With an aim of studying the possible use of the Airship S and Airplane S by the Navy after on July 25th, 1909, Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel and that in March 1910, Henri Fabre was, on the pond of Berre, first has to make fly away in Hydravion, the Ministre for the Navy of the time, the Vice-amiral Auguste Boué of Lapeyrère made up in April 1910 a commission formed by the Rear-admiral Pord, the chief engineer of the Marine engineering Martine Radiguer, the Lieutenant Glorieux and them signs of vessel Cayla and Conneau which returned his report/ratio on July 1st 1910.

In this text, which one defines as the founding document of the maritime aviation, the commission affirms the primacy of aviation on ballooning and consider the realization of a ship, bases aviation, comprising launching sites by rail with before and a platform of atterissge to the back, supplemented by a hangar sheltering the planes.

The minister, filled with enthusiasm by this project wished to create, moreover, a naval Aérodrome.

Seven naval officers were appointed to follow the courses to the Aéro-Club of France, only organization then having authority to deliver patent of pilot of August 1910 in March 1911. The first trained pilot, the Lieutenant Louis Byasson, was the first pilot and the first dead of aviation, being crushed on April 14th, 1911 on board a Maurice Farman between Coignières and Rambouillet.

On the whole, 24 pilots were trained for the maritime aviation until end 1914.

The first apparatus which the Marine accepted the December 26th 1910 was a Biplan Maurice Farman.

One chooses the Croiseur Foudre, a ship launched into 1895 of 6.089 tons, to be the future one building-bases, but ambitions dropping with time, which would have could be the first Porte-avions with the current direction of the term was transformed into carry-seaplanes.

The March 26th 1912, a decree gives rise to officially the service of maritime Aeronautics including/understanding an aerodrome established on the littoral, the future Frejus-St Raphaël, a Warship building-bases aviation Foudre , building of flotilla and flying material

Organization in 2005

This force counts 162 aircraft and: 6800 people, like six bases of naval aeronautics (ROUND OF APPLAUSE): Landivisiau, Lann-Bihoué, Hyères, Nimes-Let us park, Lanvéoc-Poulmic and Tontouta (New Caledonia).

The personnel is composed of:

• 769 pilot officers including 452
• : 4538 officers marines
• 434 leading seamen and sailors
• : 1054 civilians

The aircraft include/understand:

• the embarked air group, intended to arm the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is composed of four flotillas with Rafale , Super-Standard and E-2C Hawkeye ;
• of the helicopters embarked on the frigates, mainly of the Panther and Lynx ;
• of the helicopters of public service and rescue at sea, based with ground ( Super-Frelon and Dolphin );
• of the planes of maritime patrol (two flotillas of Atlantic II) and of maritime surveyance (three flotillas of Gardian , Falcon 50 and Northern 262E );
• an aviation of support which ensures of the missions of transport and drive and formation (a Northern flotilla of Xingu and 262E )

Units

See also: List of the units of naval aeronautics

• ROUND OF APPLAUSE of Landivisiau:

• 11 F (Super-Standard modernized)
• 12 F (Rafale M)
• 17 F (Super-Standard modernized)
• 57 S (Falcon 10 Sea)

• ROUND OF APPLAUSE of Lanvéoc-Poulmic

• 32 F (Super-Frelon)
• 34 F (Lynx)
• 22 S (Alouette III)
• 50 S (Rally/Cape 10)

• ROUND OF APPLAUSE of Lann-Bihoué

• 4 F (Hawkeye)
• 23 F (Atlantique II)
• 24 F (Falcon 50 and Xingu)

• ROUND OF APPLAUSE of Nimes-Let us park

• 21 F (Atlantique II)
• 28 F (N262E and Xingu)

• ROUND OF APPLAUSE of Hyères

• 31 F (Lynxes)
• 35 F (Dolphin and Alouette III)
• 36 F (Panther)

• ROUND OF APPLAUSE of PAPEETE Fort-de-France Tontouta

• 25 F (Gardian)

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