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    Airframe Family: Fairey Firefly
    Latest Model:Firefly AS.6
    Last Military Serial:WD833 RAN
    Construction Number:F.8661
    Last Civil Registration:N833WD
    Compressed ID:Fairey Firefly AS.6 sn WD833 RAN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Anoka County Airport, Minneapolis - Saint Paul, Minnesota

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Firefly AS.6.

    14 July 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WD833.

    10 December 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Navy with s/n WD833.

    19 September 1960

    To R. H. Grant Trading Co, Hawthorn, Vic.

    November 1967


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: This battered Royal Australian Navy Fairey Firefly AS.6 WD833 was seen at a car wreckers yard in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote in November 1967. It had Nowra code NW910 and was saved, later being shipped to USA.

    1973

    To Berwick Museum of Transport, Victoria.

    May 1975

    To Strathallan Collection, Scotland.

    November 1989

    To Henry J Schroeder, Danville, IL with new c/r N833WD.

    25 January 1994

    To Wally Fisk/Amjet Aircraft Corp, Saint Paul, Anoka Country Minnesota.

    2001

    To Steve Alex, Rockport, MO.

    By 26 March 2014

    To Len Parker keeping c/r N833WD.

    Based at Anoka County Airport, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN.
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    26 March 2014

    Civil registration, N833WD, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Rockport, ME.
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