Editing HMS Glorious (section)

=== Air group ===
[[File:Fairey Seals on HMS Glorious 1936.jpg|thumb|A squadron of Fairey Seals preparing for takeoff from ''Glorious'', 1936]]
The ship could carry up to 48 aircraft; when first recommissioned, she carried [[Fairey Flycatcher]] fighters, [[Blackburn Dart]] and [[Blackburn Ripon]] [[torpedo bomber]]s, and [[Fairey IIIF]] reconnaissance planes of the [[Fleet Air Arm]]. From 1933 until ''Glorious'' returned to the United Kingdom in April 1940, aside from a period when refitting in the mid-1930s, she carried [[802 Naval Air Squadron|802 Squadron]] which flew a mixture of nine [[Hawker Nimrod]] and three [[Hawker Osprey]] fighters, until re-equipping with a dozen [[Gloster Sea Gladiator]]s in May 1939.<ref>Sturtivant, pp. 167, 169</ref> [[812 Naval Air Squadron|812]] and [[823 Naval Air Squadron|823 Squadrons]] were embarked for reconnaissance and anti-ship attack missions. They flew the Blackburn Ripon, the [[Blackburn Baffin]] and the [[Fairey Swordfish]] torpedo bombers and as well as [[Fairey III]]F and [[Fairey Seal]] reconnaissance aircraft.<ref>Sturtivant, pp. 206, 208–209, 256–257</ref> When ''Glorious'' recommissioned after her refit in 1935, [[825 Naval Air Squadron|825 Squadron]] was embarked, initially with Fairey IIIFs, but the squadron converted to Fairey Swordfish in May 1936.<ref>Sturtivant, pp. 266, 269–270</ref>