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FAIREY GANNET/XL502
XL502 at Mildenhall, May 29, 1988.
Serial #: XL502
Construction #: F9461
Civil Registry:
G-BMYP
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Model: Gannet AEW.3
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2011
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History:
Delivered to Royal Navy as XL502, 19??.
- BOC: March 29, 1961.
- SOC: 1986.
- Used as ground trainer, RNAS Lossiemouth, 1978.
- Transferred to RNAS Leuchars to be used as instructional airframe, Dec. 1, 1978-1986.
- Put up for disposal.
Neil Moffat/Moffat Aviation, Carlisle, UK, April 5, 1986-1989.
- Registered as G-BYMP, Sept. 16, 1986.
- Restored to airworthy at RNAS Leuchars, first flight April 27, 1987.
- Ferried to Carlisle, April 27, 1987.
- Flew in airshows from 1987 to 1989.
- Stored at Carlisle.
R. King/King of Chichester Ltd, Bognor Regis, UK, Aug. 29, 1990.
Gerry Cooper/Cooper Aerial Surveys, Sandtoft. circa 1994-1997.
- Ferried from Carlisle to Sandoft, Feb. 25, 1995.
-- WFU.
David Copley/Imperial Aviation Group, North Coates (later Sandtoft) Dec. 1997-2004.
- Open storage, Sandoft, 1997-2005.
Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York, UK, 2005-2011.
- Displayed.
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