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Serial #: VW232 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: None Model: 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, Mar. 1951-1959. Sydney Technical College, Ultimo, NSW, Mar. 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, Nov. 1974. Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1982-2002. - Loaned to Naval Aviation Museum, Nowra NAS, NSW, Aug. 1987-1991. -- Displayed as "RAN VX 730". - Returned to Australian War Memorial. - Displayed on carrier deck diorama as RAN VX730/109K, Apr. 2000. |