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Fairey Firefly/WH632

   


Serial #: WH632
Construction #: F.8755
Civil Registration:
  C-GBDG
Model: AS Mk. 6
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
  History:
Delivered to RAN as WH632.
- BOC: June 1953.
- SOC: May 29, 1960.
Australian Air League, Marrickville, NSW, May 1960-1966.
Camden Museum Of Aviation, Camden, NSW, June 17, 1966-1978.
Canadian Warplane Heritage, Hamilton, Ontario, June 1978-2002.
- Shipped from Sydney to Canada, June 1978.
- Registered as C-GBDG.
- Rebuilt to airworthy, Hamilton, Ontario & Victoria, BC.
- First flight Victoria, BC, Apr. 1992.
- Crashed on take-off for ferry flight from Victoria, May 6, 1992.
- Rebuilt to airworthy.
- First flight Oct. 31, 1995.
- Marked as BD-G/VH142.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
David Maude
Photo Source(s):
Jim Buckel
Mike Henniger.

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