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Fury/VH-HFG
Baghdad Fury



Serial #: -
Construction #:
  37729
  41H/65802
Civil Registration:
  N54SF
  VH-HFG
Model(s):
  FB Mk. 11
Name: Baghdad Fury
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
  History:
Delivered to Iraqi AF as 308, 19??.
Ed Jurist & David C. Tallichet, Orlando, FL, 1979.
- Registered as N54SF.
- Recovered from Iraq.
- Stored dismantled in Orlando, FL.
Ed Jurist/Vintage Aircraft International/Nyack, NY, Aug. 1979-1982.
Guido Zuccoli, Darwin, NT, Jan. 1982-1997.
- Shipped.
- Registered as VH-HFG, Nov. 9, 1983.
- Restored at Darwin.
- First Flight Nov. 14, 1983.
- Flew as RAN 308/K.
- Damaged in forced landing near Toowoomba, Queensland, Feb. 24, 1984.
-- Repaired.
Lynette Zuccoli/Zucooli Classic Aircraft Collection, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, June 1997-2002.
- Withdrawn from use.
- Displayed, toowoomba, 1999-2001.
- Maintained airworthy as RAN 308/K/"Baghdad Fury".

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.
Photo Source(s):
John Parker