Dunno about any Fairchilds in the UK, but a few did survive for a while outside of the USA. The yanks took a good basic design and unecessarily complicated it with prop brakes, an APU and freon air-conditioning. The cockpit (sorry 'flight compartment' - the word 'cock' was unacceptable in polite circles in the USA back then) layout had some notable differences like two sets of power levers with the HP cocks (sorry, 'valves') in the centre of the pedestal. It made going from the F27 to the Fairchild and back again on the same day interesting as one grabbed for the wrong lever. They stretched it into the FH-227 and to save weight used lighter metal (in the skin, I think). Result was all sorts of extra X-ray inspections. Not one of the better American success-stories.