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    Airframe Family: Hawker Sea Fury
    Latest Model:Sea Fury FB.11
    Last Military Serial:TF956 RN
    Compressed ID:Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 sn TF956 RN
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Navy Historic Flight, R N A S Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1947

    Constructed as a Sea Fury FB.11.

    5 September 1947

    First flight.

    October 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n TF956.

    By August 1948

    Markings Applied: 108, JR

    By October 1950

    Markings Applied: 123, T
    HMS Theseus (off Korea).

    By May 1953

    Markings Applied: 125, CW
    RNAS Culdrose.

    From 1960 to 1963

    Transferred to RNAS Lossiemouth.

    From 1963 to 1970

    Assigned to Hawker-Siddeley Aircraft Ltd, Langley for storage.
    Intended for use in Company Historic Flight.

    From 1970 to 10 June 1989

    To Royal Navy Historic Flight, R N A S Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    21 January 1972

    First post-restoration Flight.
    At RNAS Yeovilton.

    1973


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1973 photo at Biggin Hill

    1974


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1974 photo at Yeovilton in the UK - aircraft having received damage

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1980


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.Ditched into sea in 1989.

    By July 1981

    Markings Applied: 123, T
    Markings of operational service aboard HMS Theseus during Korean War 1952.

    22 July 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    22 July 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Culdrose Air Show

    3 August 1985


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Show

    10 June 1989

    Crashed.
    Pilot bailed out after several attempts to fully lower undercarriage, including bouncing on one u/c leg. Aircraft crashed into sea and destroyed off Prestwick, Scotland.
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