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Fairey Firefly/WD826



Serial #: WD826
Construction #: F.8655
Civil Registration:
  VH-NVU
  Model(s):
  AS Mk. 5
  TT Mk. 5
Name: None
Status: Static Display
Last info: 2002

History:
Delivered to Royal Australian Navy as WD826.
- BOC: Dec. 1950.
NAS Schofields, NSW, 1964-1974.
- Used as instructional airframe.
Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Nowra, NSW, Dec. 1974-1986.
RAN Historic Flight, NAS Nowra, Sept. 30, 1986-1992.
- Restored at Nowra.
- First flight, Oct. 4, 1986.
- Flew as RAN/WD826/245K.
Australian Naval Air Museum, Albatross, 2002.
- Static Display pending restoration to airworthy.



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):
John Parker.

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