So people presenting you with sites that contradict you is somehow an opinion rather than a fact that contradicts what you've been posting and I have to ask if you've actually got any references to back up what you're saying?
No one has posted any such information. Only a link to a glossy public facing Royal Navy site, which lists the squadrons that compose the FAA. Those squadron's and their aircraft do in fact exist. It is not my argument that they do not.
They very much do. However due to the way Joint Helicopter Command works, and how Joint Force Harrier used to work, and how Joint Force Lightning will work, the FAA cannot operate independently of RAF support structures. (Neither can Army Air Corps either, but since they operate several types that the RAF do not, they retain more independence than the FAA.)
This was done, not as some Goeringesque RAF masterplan to hoard all the precious precious aircraft for themselves, but rather as a pretty rational expedient by the MoD and Treasury to save money on otherwise duplicated support infrastructure. It is just that because the RAF had the most aircraft it was their support infrastructure that was consolidated on, and it was they who ended up having the most control over the various 'Joint Forces'. Aircraft are not the core focus for the other two services, and so to try and preserve their budgets in other areas they acquiesced.
I doubt that the service chiefs of the RAF are too unhappy with the extra budgetary clout and influence over the procurement decisions of the other services that this gives them. In fact, I suspect they realized the end results of this process before it began. Which is why they have been very much in favour of it.
The end result is that the Fleet Air Arm as it once was is no longer really a thing. What is left is rather a sort of return to the state of affairs before the naval aircraft were divested from the RAF in 1939.
The people, the machines and units are real. Rather it is the FAA itself which is now a revenant like shade. Here, but becoming more intangible with every passing day.
Quite honestly I'm astounded at how angry people are getting over what is really a very esoteric point of bureaucratic organisation.