WARBIRD REGISTRY > FURY/SEA FURY REGISTRY > PREVIOUS PAGE
|
Serial #: VW232 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: None |
Model(s): Fury FB Mk. 11 Name: None Status: Display Last info: 2002 |
History:
Delivered to Royal Australian Navy as VW232
- BOC: March 1949.
- SOC: 1959
- Arrived as deck cargo on carrier HMAS Sydney, May 25, 1949.
- Rebuilt in RAN service using rear fuselage, outer wings & stern post of TF925.
- Ground instruction airframe, NAS Nowra, NSW, March 1951-1959.
Sydney Technical College, Ultimo, NSW, March 9, 1959.
Museum Of Applied Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales, 1965-1974.
- Stored, Sydney Technical College, Ultimo, NSW.
- Painted as RAN VX730.
- Loaned to Camden Museum Of Aviation, NSW, November 1974.
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1982-2002.
- Loaned to Naval Aviation Museum, Nowra NAS, NSW, August 1987-1991.
-- Displayed as "RAN VX 730".
- Returned to Australian War Memorial.
- Displayed on carrier deck diorama as RAN VX730/109K, April 2000.
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):
None.
WARBIRD REGISTRY > FURY/SEA FURY REGISTRY > PREVIOUS PAGE