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FAIREY GANNET/XG883

Fairey Gannet XG883, right click and view picture for larger version
XG883 at the Wales Air Museum, April 14, 1988.

Serial #: XG883
Construction #: F9412
Civil Registry:
  None
  Model: Gannet T5
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2011

History:
Delivered to Royal Navy as XG831.
- BOC: May 30, 1957.
- SOC: 1983.
- Stored, RNAS Anthorn, Cumbria, May 1957-July 1957.
- Pre-delivery prep work and storage, RNAS Abbotsinch, Strathclyde, July 1957-Jan 1960.
- Radio installation work, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, Jan. 1960-March 1960.
- Delivered to Station Flight, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, March 1960-Aug. 1960.
- Transferred to 849 NAS, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, Aug. 1960-July 1964.
- Modernisation work, White Waltham, Berkshire, July 1964-Feb. 1966.
- Returned to 849 NAS, RNAS Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, Feb. 1966-Jan. 1970.
- Stored, RNAS Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, Jan. 1970-May 1970.
- Stored, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset, May 1970-April 1983.
Wales Aircraft Museum, Cardiff Airport, South Glamorgan, April 1983-March 1996.
Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Woodley, Berkshire, UK, March 1996-2011

Source(s):
www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk
UK Serials
Museum of Berkshire Aviation
Photo Source(s):
Brian Johnstone

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