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    Airframe Family: Fairey Gannet
    Latest Model:Gannet T.5
    Last Military Serial:XG882 RN
    Construction Number:F9411
    Compressed ID:Fairey Gannet T.5 sn XG882 RN cn F9...
    Latest Owner or Location:Airport (formerly), Errol / Grange, Perth and Kinross, Scotland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Gannet T.5.

    1 March 1957

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n XG882.

    15 September 1958

    Transferred to Station Flight, RNAS Abbotsinch.

    23 April 1959

    Transferred to Station Flight, RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall.

    19 November 1970

    Transferred to 849 Squadron, RNAS Lossiemouth.
    Operated with markings: LM-771

    June 1971

    Transferred to Naval Air Storage Unit, RNAS Lossiemouth.

    10 July 1971


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gannet T.5 of 849 Squadron at the 1971 RNAS Lossiemouth Airshow.

    1981

    Restored.
    Rebuilt using parts from XA463 and XG889.

    21 July 1982

    Transferred to RNAS Lossiemouth.
    Placed on display as a gate guard at Lossiemouth.

    To Airport (formerly), Errol/Grange, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
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    3 September 1984


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Gannet T.5 of 849 Squadron was a gate guardian at RAF Lossiemouth in September 1984.

    30 July 2023


    Photographer: Macauley Porter
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