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    Airframe Family: Fairey Gannet
    Latest Model:Gannet T.5
    Last Military Serial:XG883 RN
    Construction Number:F9412
    Compressed ID:Fairey Gannet T.5 sn XG883 RN cn F9...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Sanford, Reading, Wokingham, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gannet T.5.

    1 March 1957

    First flight.

    30 May 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XG883.

    30 May 1957

    Transferred to Receipt Dispatch Unit (RDU), RNAS Anthorn.

    12 July 1957

    Transferred to Aircraft Handling Unit (AHU), RNAS Abbotsinch.

    25 January 1960

    Transferred to Navy Air Radio Installation Unit (NARIU), RNAS Lee-On-Solent.

    23 March 1960

    Transferred to Station Flight, RNAS Culdrose.
    Code 996-CU.

    25 July 1960

    Transferred to 849NAS, RNAS Culdrose.
    Code 451-CU.

    15 July 1964

    Transferred to Westland, White Waltham.

    7 July 1965

    Transferred to Westland, RNAS Yeovilton.

    17 February 1966

    Transferred to 849NAS, HQ FLT, RNAS Brawdy.
    Code 773-BY.

    9 January 1970

    Transferred to Navy Air Support Unit (NASU), RNAS Brawdy.

    3 June 1970

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum.

    8 June 1970

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Navy.

    12 April 1983

    To Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff.

    By October 1986

    Markings Applied: 77, 773, BY
    Code 77 on starboard nose, code 773 on port nose, BY on tail.

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Mid-Wales Air Museum, Rhoose Airport, Cardiff

    March 1996

    To Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Sanford, Reading, Wokingham, England.
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    2009


    Photographer: Andy West
    Notes: Gannet T.5
    Credits
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    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    South Wales Aviation Group
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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