On 6 May 1926 a Blackburn Dart torpedo bomber made what this account identifies as the first night landing on an aircraft carrier. The achievement connected lessons drawn from Jutland with a practical doctrine for operating and striking after dark. The Royal Navy had spent a decade developing toward that capability rather than treating the landing as an isolated stunt. Furious had the deck size, stores, maintenance space, and personnel accommodations needed to sustain repeated experiments. Those qualities made her design limitations less important than her availability as a platform for turning night-carrier theory into operational practice.
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The first night carrier landing advances strike doctrine
A Blackburn Dart landed on Furious at night on 6 May 1926, marking a major step in the Royal Navy's decade-long pursuit of night strike capability.