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FAIREY GANNET/XG797
Serial #: XG797
Construction #: F9365
Civil Registry:
None
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Model(s):
Gannet AS.4
Gannet ECM.6
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2010
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History:
Delivered to the Royal Navy as XG797, 19??.
- BOC: April 03, 1957.
- Delivered to storage.
- Assigned to 810 NAS, May 1959.
- Transferred to Aircraft Holding Unit at RNAS Culdrose, 1960.
- Loaned to 700 NAS at RNAS Yeovilton and later RNAS Culdrose.
- Converted to ECM.6 at RNAS Lee-on-Solent, 1963-March 1965.
- Assigned to 831 NAS at RAF Watton, May 1965.
- Retired to ground instructional use at Arbroath, June 1966.
- Returned to airworthy status and used by 849 HQ flight, May 1967.
- Returned to Arbroath, Aug. 1968.
Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK, 1972-2010.
- Painted in 931 NAS scheme.
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