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Serial #: VR930 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: None |
Model(s): Fury FB Mk. 11 Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2006 |
History:
First flight, February 23, 1948
Delivered to Royal Navy as VR930.
- BOC: March 8, 1948 at RNAS Culham.
- To RN Fleet Requirements Unit, Bournemouth.
- Withdrawn from use, December 1961.
- Total time on airframe, 1280hrs.
Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Ltd, Dunsfold, January 1963-1965.
- Delivered from RNAS Lossiemouth.
- Stored.
RAF Museum, RAF Colerne, January 1965-1975.
- Initially gate guard, later stored.
FAA Museum, RNAS Wroughton, 1975-1986.
- Stored.
RN Historic Flight, RNAS Yeovilton, 1992-2006.
- Stored, trucked to Brough for restoration, June 9, 1994.
- Rolled out as RN/VR930/110/0, May 1997.
- Trucked from Brough to Yeovilton for completion, September 12, 1997.
- First flight, March 1, 2001.
- Suffered engine failure, landed safely at RNAS Yeovilton, August 21, 2001.
- Stored, at Yeovilton, 2002
- Rebuilt to airworthy by 2006.
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. |
Photo Source(s): Andy Court Research Assistance: - |
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