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    Airframe Family: Fairey Gannet
    Latest Model:Gannet AEW.3
    Last Military Serial:XL502 RN
    Construction Number:F9461
    Last Civil Registration:G-BMYP
    Compressed ID:Fairey Gannet AEW.3 sn XL502 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:David Copley, The Grange, Goxhill, Barrow-Upon-Humber

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gannet AEW.3.

    March 1961

    First flight.

    29 March 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XL502.

    By 1968

    Transferred to Headquarters Flight, 849 Squadron, RNAS Brawdy, Wales.
    Operated with markings: BY-764

    7 July 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gannet AEW.3 of 849 Squadron aboard HMS Ark Royal on display at the 1973 International Air Tattoo held at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire

    From April 1975 to 1978

    Transferred to HQ Flight, 829 Squadron, RNAS Lossiemouth.

    27 November 1978

    Transferred to RAF Leuchars, Fife.
    To as Battle Damage Repair instructional airframe 8610M.

    From 16 September 1986 to 29 August 1990

    To Neil Moffat and Robert King with new c/r G-BMYP.

    To Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington Airport, York, York, England.
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    17 September 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gannet AEW.3 on civil register but still in 849 Squadron markings on display at the 1988 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    From 29 August 1990 to 15 March 1995

    To Robert King keeping c/r G-BMYP.

    27 August 1994


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Neil Moffat displayed his Gannet AEW.3 at the 1994 Carlisle Air Show, Cumbria.

    From 15 March 1995 to 17 December 1997

    To Ronald Henry Cooper keeping c/r G-BMYP.

    17 December 1997

    To David Copley, The Grange, Goxhill, Barrow-Upon-Humber keeping c/r G-BMYP.

    22 February 2005

    Civil registration, G-BMYP, cancelled.

    30 April 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Yorkshire Air Museum

    11 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Fairey Gannet AEW.3, at Yorkshire Air Museum

    5 March 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington Airport, York,
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