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    Airframe Family: Fairey Gannet
    Latest Model:Gannet AEW.3
    Last Military Serial:XL482 RN
    Construction Number:F9451
    Last Civil Registration:N1350X
    Compressed ID:Fairey Gannet AEW.3 sn XL482 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gannet AEW.3.

    25 July 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XL482.
    The delivery date is provided.

    13 August 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gannet AEW.3 of 849 Squadron on display at the 1977 RNAS Lossiemouth Open Day.

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Yeovilton.

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Yeovilton.

    Assigned to RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall for storage.
    Flown to Culdrose for long-term storage.

    15 February 1982

    To Hamilton with new c/r N1350X.
    Used for propeller vibratory stress trials.

    13 June 1983

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1350X (A.E.W., XL-482) issued.

    From 8 September 1986 to 2004

    Ferry flight. Delivered to New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.
    Flown from Rentschler Airport, East Hartford, CT by former Gannet Pilot, Commander Keneth Lamphrey of the Royal Navy.
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    11 June 1992


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    1993

    To Kal Aero Services, Bonita, CA.

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Initially placed in storage dismantled.

    Markings Applied: LM
    Placed on display reassembled but unrestored in the colours of the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Air Station Lossiemouoth, in 1978.

    July 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At New England Air Museum, CT.

    9 February 2005

    Civil registration, N1350X, cancelled.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    Thunder and Lightnings
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Peter Nicholson
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