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Date: | Monday 1 October 1956 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Fairey Firefly U.8 |
Owner/operator: | RAE Llanbedr |
Registration: | WM860 |
MSN: | F.8915 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAE Llanbedr, near Harlech, Gwynedd -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAE Llanbedr, Gwynedd (EGOD) |
Destination airport: | RAE Llanbedr, Gwynedd (EGOD) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Fairey Firefly U.8 WM860: Ordered from Fairey Aircraft Ltd., Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Cheshire as a Firefly AS.7, but completed as a Firefly U.8 drone. First flown as such at Ringway Airport, Manchester 20/4/1954.
Pleased into short term storage at Fairey Aircraft Ringway Airport, Manchester from 3/6/1954. Delivered to RAE Aberporth and/or RAE Llanbedr 21/7/1954. Returned to Fairey Aircraft at Ringway Airport, Manchester 28/6/1955 for overhaul. Upon completion of this work, delivered to HMS Nuthatch, RNAS Anthorn RDU, Cumberland 18/7/1956 for short term storage
Issued for service 14/8/1956 to RAE Llanbedr. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 1/10/1956 when crashed on landing at RAE Llanbedr, near Harlech, Gwynedd. Aircraft extensively damaged (Cat.4(R)) but later deemed "beyond economic repair" and Struck Off Charge 20/3/1957 as Cat.5(c)
Sources:
1. Fleet Air Arm Fixed Wing Aircraft Since 1946 (Ray Sturtivant, Lee Howard & Mick Burrows, Air Britain, 2004 p.299)
2.
http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WM 3. Firefly U.8 WM860 (and WM859) at Ringway, Manchester 6/2/1956:
https://www.airhistory.net/photo/136445/WM860 4.
http://www.ukserials.com/losses_drones.htm 5.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1327670 6.
https://www.airliners.net/photo/UK-Navy/Fairey-Firefly-U8/2041314/L Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Sep-2020 17:52 |
Dr. John Smith |
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