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    Airframe Family: Fairey Firefly
    Latest Model:Firefly
    Last Military Serial:WD901 RAN
    Construction Number:F.8724
    Last Civil Registration:CF-BDH
    Compressed ID:Fairey Firefly sn WD901 RAN cn F.87...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dennis Bradley and Alan Ness/Canadian Warplane Heritage, Hamilton, ON

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Firefly.

    From June 1953 to 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Navy with s/n WD901.

    1967

    Placed on display.
    Casula Auto Wreckers, Casula, NSW.

    1967

    To William F. G. Gambella, Charleston, SC.
    Shipped to USA.

    27 January 1969

    To John M. Sliker, Wadley, GA with new c/r N7469.

    6 December 1971

    Civil registration, N7469, cancelled.

    From 7 December 1971 to 1977

    To Dennis Bradley and Alan Ness/Canadian Warplane Heritage, Hamilton, ON with new c/r CF-BDH.

    Circa 16 January 1973


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Great Miami Air Race.

    Circa 16 January 1973


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Great Miami Air Race.

    July 1973


    Photographer: Kenneth M. Hare
    Notes: Firefly FR.5 WD901 / CF-BDH 825 Squadron at Windsor Ap., Ont. July 1973

    18 August 1974


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1974 photo at Winnipeg - Originally one of a batch delivered to the Royal Australian Navy, this Fairey Firefly was imported in 1971 for the Canadian Warplane Heritage at Hamilton/ON. It is painted to represent one of the Royal Canadian Navy machines operated from aircraft carriers in the 1950s. It crashed into Lake Ontario in 1977

    May 1977


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Rickenbacker AFB, Columbus, OH

    2 September 1977

    Crashed.
    Crashed into Lake Ontario, pilot killed.
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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