| RNAS Fearn (HMS Owl) | |
| Ensign: | Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg |
| Ensign Size: | 90px |
| Location: | Fearn, Scottish Highlands |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Pushpin Map: | Scotland Highland#United Kingdom |
| Pushpin Label: | RNAS Fearn |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within the Scottish Highlands |
| Type: | Royal Naval Air Station |
| Ownership: | Admiralty |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Controlledby: | Fleet Air Arm |
| Used: | October 1942 - July 1946 - |
| Battles: | European theatre of World War II |
| Elevation: | 8m (26feet) |
| R1-Number: | 05/23 |
| R1-Length: | 1348m (4,423feet) |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
| R2-Number: | 11/29 |
| R2-Length: | 1152m (3,780feet) |
| R2-Surface: | Concrete |
| R3-Number: | 18/36 |
| R3-Length: | 1078m (3,537feet) |
| R3-Surface: | Concrete |
Royal Naval Air Station Fearn (RNAS Fearn; or HMS Owl) is a former Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm airbase, located southeast of Tain, Scottish Highlands and northeast of Inverness, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. The Tower has now been converted to residential use. See Restoration Man George Clarke.
Situated around 1miles from the north west shore of the Moray Firth, the airfield is 8.5miles north east of the town and port of Invergordon and 1miles south east of the village of Fearn. Notable landmarks include Tarbat Ness and Cromarty Firth.[1]
The Royal Navy acquired the airbase when on 15 July 1942 it was transferred from the RAF to the Admiralty and was known as Royal Naval Air Station Fearn (RNAS Fearn). On 11 October it was commissioned as HMS Owl.[1] The airbase had initially opened in late 1941 as a satellite for RAF Tain, known as RAF Fearn, before the Fleet Air Arm took it over.[2] HMS Owl was home to the Royal Navy’s Barracuda Operational Training Unit, No. 1 Barracuda Servicing Unit and No. 3 Barracuda Servicing Unit along with No. 1 Avenger Servicing Unit. There was also No. 2 Torpedo School. The site also included accommodation for disembarked squadrons.[1]
A number of units were here at some point:
The site is currently used as farmland.[2] On the southeast edge, a new, separate, aerodrome has been created by the name of "Easter Airfield".[3] The control tower is now a private residence owned. It was in a 2015 episode of Channel 4's The Restoration Man.[4] A lot of the original buildings on the other side of the camp are derelict and only have trash from fly-tipping, crows and bugs in them.