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    Airframe Family: Fairey Firefly
    Latest Model:Firefly TT.1
    Last Military Serial:DT989 RN
    Construction Number:F.6071
    Last Civil Registration:G-CGYD
    Compressed ID:Fairey Firefly TT.1 sn DT989 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Firefly F.1 by Fairey at Stockport.

    1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n DT989.

    19 February 1950

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Navy.

    Converted to a Firefly TT.1.

    20 September 1950

    To Svensk Flygtjanst, AB with new c/r SE-BRG.

    3 June 1964

    Civil registration, SE-BRG, cancelled.

    To Technical Museum, Stockholm-Arlanda, Sweden.

    2 September 2011

    To Propshop Ltd, Duxford Airfield, Duxford, Cambridge with new c/r G-CGYD (FAIREY FIREFLY MK1, F6071).

    Based at Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England

    24 September 2018


    Photographer: David Blaker
    Notes: Under restoration to flying conditon at Duxford England
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