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    Airframe Family: Fairey Flycatcher
    Latest Model:Flycatcher (replica)
    Construction Number:WA/3
    Last Civil Registration:G-BEYB
    Compressed ID:Fairey Flycatcher (replica) cn WA/3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Flycatcher (replica).

    From 11 July 1977 to 12 July 1996

    To John Fairey, Stockbridge with new c/r G-BEYB.

    Markings Applied: 5, S1287

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1978 photo at Old Warden

    1 August 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At RNAS Yeovilton Air Day (at that time it had not been retired to the FAAM and was still flying)

    29 July 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: out of the museum and into the static at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Flycatcher replica, now a museum exhibit at Yeovilton, was airworthy and shown being positioned at the 1995 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
    (replica).
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    By 2015

    Placed on display with Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    30 March 2015


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset, England
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