A special morning tea was held to mark the occasion and according to tradition the youngest person on the base and the commanding officer cut the birthday cake.

Seaman Kimberley Carter and CO Captain Fiona Sneath cut the birthday cake with Fleet Air Arm Museum curator Terry Hetherington and one of the more senior members Lieutenant Commander Bob Kyle.

A Freedom of Entry ceremony is also planned for later in the year.

August 31 also saw the graduation of the first intake of navy and army pilots, aviation warfare officers and aircrews at the Joint Helicopter School, which forms 723 Squadron.

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The 28 graduates completed their Helicopter Aircrew Training System [HATS] and were presented their wings.

A Unit Citation for Gallantry pennant, recently awarded to the RAN Flight Vietnam from 723 Squadron, was also raised for the first time.

Around the base and other celebrations took place with 816 Squadron also celebrating the 70th anniversary of its formation on August 28.

Known as the 'Fighting Tigers', the squadron based at Albatross, has flown Fireflys, Gannets, Sea Venoms, Trackers, Wessex, S-70B-2 Seahawks and now MH-60R Seahawks.

816 Squadron is the Fleet Air Arm’s MH-60R Romeo operational support squadron deploying up to eight flights in the navy's destroyers and frigates with enhanced anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare capability.

The squadron has battle honours for Norway, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Malta Convoys, Arctic, Malaysia, East Timor, Persian Gulf, Kuwait and Iraq and is the only unit that has been on every RAN deployment to the Middle East since the first Gulf War.