Gannet to fly at Farnborough 2016

[NutLoose]

Superb, they're going to ship the one over from the States in the AN124

Gannet to fly at Farnborough 2016 (http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?136984-Gannet-to-fly-at-Farnborough-2016)

[Pontius Navigator]

Maybe the Navy will have fixed wing AEW after all.

That link says AN124. I see it is a prototype therefore ASW not AEW. Probably the display where it did a single engine flypast with the other propeller feathered. Gave rise to an Airship asking if the Shackleton could also improve its endurance by shutting down 4 of its engines too.

[Wander00]

Nutty - cannot get that link to work

[MPN11]

The Forum link works on Mac/Safari. Just saying.

... but we want PICTURES!

[LeggyMountbatten]

If you want pictures,go to the Fb site and/or Google Fairey Gannet XT752.

There's an interesting and contentious story to this Gannet, it turns out. This Odone v Hawarden Services Ltd & Ors [2014] EWHC 1694 (QB) (23 May 2014) (http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2014/1694.html) makes interesting reading.

[NutLoose]

Try this for the link, corrected transport aircraft type too... Oops :*

http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=241859&d=1447149637

https://www.facebook.com/FaireyGannetXT752/

[NutLoose]

Forgot to add, don't forget the UK's one being rebuilt to flying condition

https://www.facebook.com/Fairey-Gannet-AEW3-XL500-235548589980702/info?tab=page_info

[RAFEngO74to09]

XT752 is a T5 trainer version of the AS4 (converted from a T2).

http://wingsofsteelfoundation.org/history/

Videos here:

EAA Video Player - Your Source for Aviation Videos (http://eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=3705543679001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_WPAbJa8xA

https://vimeo.com/104783215

[Warmtoast]

In the summer of 1955 I was on temporary detachment to Northolt and wandering around the station getting my bearings was astonished to see a hanger full of Gannets in various stages of assembly being assembled by civilian workers. ISTR output was one Gannet a week, but am not 100% sure of how many.
Curious, I was told the aircraft being assembled at Northolt had been built at Fairy's Hayes factory, transferred by road to Northolt for assembly, and finally flown to White Waltham for collection by the Navy.

[RAFEngO74to09]

Warmtoast,

303 AS/T and 45 AEW aircraft built in 7 years 1953-1959 - so pretty much one per week on average. Almost unbelievable numbers by the norms of today for a couple of niche roles - but the RN had several carriers back then and some were built for export to Australia and West Germany.

[Nige321]

XT752 is now up for sale on Barnstormers...
I can't post links, just search for Barnstormers.com

[Jhieminga]

It doesn't help when the seller doesn't know how to spell 'Fairey'.... but I found it: https://www.barnstormers.com/classified-1705959-SALE.html?catid=23451

[chevvron]

Curious, I was told the aircraft being assembled at Northolt had been built at Fairy's Hayes factory, transferred by road to Northolt for assembly, and finally flown to White Waltham for collection by the Navy.
I lived about 15 miles north of White Waltham and it was a weekly event; you heard the Gannet taking off and it took a loooong time to pass overhead.
Last ones I encountered were a T5 accompanied by an AEW 3; the AEW was delivered to Farnborough in about '78 with the intention of removing the H2S and then scrapping the rest, whilst the T5 arrived at the same time to collect the crew and return them to (I think) Yeovilton.
Last one I saw was parked in somebodies back garden in 1991 next to the ring road at Cirencester.