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<strong>orders</strong>, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria<br />

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Pair: Phantom Pilot Comm<strong>and</strong>er N.L.L. Featherstone, Comm<strong>and</strong>ing Officer<br />

No.750 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy<br />

General Service 1962-2007, three clasps, Radfan, South Arabia, Malay Peninsula<br />

(Lieut. N.L.L. Featherstone. R.N.); Jubilee 1977, nearly extremely fine, with the<br />

recipient’s Fleet Air Arm cloth insignia (2)<br />

£300-400<br />

Comm<strong>and</strong>er Neville Longdale Lee Featherstone, Commissioned Sub-Lieutenant, Royal<br />

Navy, 28.9.1959; Promoted Lieutenant, 26.3.1962, <strong>and</strong> trained as a fixed wing pilot,<br />

carrying out two front-line tours east of Suez flying Sea Vixens from the carrier H.M.S.<br />

Centaur; on return to the U.K. he qualified as a Flying Instructor (QFI) <strong>and</strong> spent two years<br />

at R.N.A.S. Brawdy in Wales teaching ëpipe-lineí pilots to fly the swept wing Hunter.<br />

Towards the end of this appointment he was invited to go to the US Naval Air Station<br />

Miramar at San Diego, California, to fly the F4 Phantom (this was at a time when the United<br />

States Navy was suffering heavy losses in Vietnam <strong>and</strong> was fully stretched to train sufficient<br />

replacements. More importantly it provided invaluable experience on the Phantom which had<br />

been ordered by the Royal Navy as a replacement for the Sea Vixen). In 1968 when the first<br />

Royal Navy Phantoms arrived at R.N.A.S. Yeovilton Featherstone joined 700P, the Intensive<br />

Flying Trials Unit. This metamorphosed into No.767 Squadron where as QFI <strong>and</strong> Senior<br />

Pilot he was responsible for training naval crews for the front-line No.892 Squadron <strong>and</strong><br />

R.A.F. crews for the first Squadron to re-equip with the Phantom. Promoted Lieutenant-<br />

Comm<strong>and</strong>er, 1.3.1970; he served as personal pilot to Vice-Admiral J.D. Treacher, Flag<br />

Officer, Naval Air Comm<strong>and</strong>, 1972-73, before being appointed to the Comm<strong>and</strong> of No.750<br />

Squadron at R.N.A.S. Culdrose in 1977. Promoted Comm<strong>and</strong>er, 1.9.1982, he carried out<br />

various staff jobs at the M.O.D. <strong>and</strong> SHAPE in Belgium, before retiring in 1987.<br />

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