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Fairey Firefly/WD901



Serial #: WD901
Construction #: F.8724
Civil Registration:
  N7469
  CF-BDH
  Model(s):
  AS Mk. 6
  TT Mk. 6
Name: None
Status: Destroyed
Last info: 1977

History:
Delivered to Royal Australian Navy as WD840.
- BOC: June 1953.
- SOC: 1965
- Put up for disposal at Bankstown, NSW, Mar. 3, 1965.
Casula Auto Wreckers, Casula, NSW, Jan. 1967.
- Displayed.
William F. G. Gambella, Charleston, SC, 1967.
- Shipped to USA on S.S. African Crecent, 1967.
John M. Silver, Wadley, GA, 1968-1971.
- Registered as N7469.
Dennis Bradley & Alan Ness/Canadian Warplane Heritage, Hamilton, Ontario, Sept. 1971-1977.
- Registered as CF-BDH.
- Delivered from Georgia to Toronto, Sept. 1971.
- Flew as RCN/BD-H.
- Crashed into Lake Ontario, Sept. 2, 1977.
-- Alan Ness fatally injured.



Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Photo Source(s):
Eric Dumigan Photography

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