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    Airframe Family: Fairey Gannet
    Latest Model:Gannet ECM.6
    Last Military Serial:XG797 RN
    Construction Number:F9365
    Compressed ID:Fairey Gannet ECM.6 sn XG797 RN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gannet AS.4.

    8 March 1957

    First flight.

    3 April 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XG797.

    3 April 1957

    Transferred to RDU, RNAS Anthorn.

    25 June 1957

    Assigned to RNAS Abbotsinch for storage.

    1 May 1959

    Transferred to 810 NAS.

    12 July 1960

    Assigned to Aircraft Handling Unit (AHU), RNAS Culdrose for storage.

    30 August 1960

    Transferred to 700 NAS, RNAS Yeovilton.

    23 January 1961

    Transferred to 700 NAS, RNAS Culdrose.

    29 June 1961

    Assigned to AHU, RNAS Abbotsinch for storage.

    11 March 1963

    Repaired.
    To AHU, RNAS Culdrose for repairs and modifications.

    From November 1963 to March 1965

    Converted to a Gannet ECM.6.
    At NARIU, RNAS Lee-on-Solent.

    May 1965

    Transferred to 831 NAS, RAF Watton.

    6 June 1966

    Transferred to RN Apprentice School, RNAS Arbroath.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    15 May 1967

    Transferred to Naval Air Support Unit (NASU) RNAS Brawdy.

    10 July 1967

    Transferred to 849 NAS, HQ Flight, RNAS Brawdy.

    10 July 1967

    Markings Applied: 766, BY

    2 February 1968

    Transferred to NASU, RNAS Brawdy.

    7 August 1968

    Transferred to RNAS Arbroath.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    February 1971

    Transferred to Martsu, RNAS Lee-On-Solent.

    21 May 1972

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
    Transported by road from RNAS Lee-on-Solent.
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    1 August 1979


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at IWM Duxford

    April 1989


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Duxford.

    Markings Applied: 277
    In the markings of 831 NAS.

    27 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist
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