INDEX OF PRESERVED AIRCRAFT TYPES USED BY THE FAA |
Fairey Swordfish |
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Threat Status 1999-2000 |
1999-2000 |
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13 Royal Navy FAA or RCN survivors, in addition 3 have unknown history and one served only with the RAF | - | 2 under restoration |
View the summary text for each of the preserved Fairey Swordfish in existence
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| Status | Civil Registration Nunber | Serial Number
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Type | Markings | Owner/Operator | Condition/Notes |
| - | W5856 | Mk I | Painted in the pre-war colours of 810 Squadron embarked in Ark Royal, wearing the codes [A2A]. See photo | Royal
Navy Historic Flight (ex Strathallan a/c collection (UK)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft. Delivered 82 MU 1941. |
Airworthy | |
| - | DK791 | Mk II | Marked "4C". | Museum
of Transport and Technology, Auckland (New Zealand)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft. Served with 813 squadron 1942. |
Remains | |
| C-GRCN
G-AWII |
HS469
Serial NoFB3S 126A |
Mk II | See photo | Shearwater
Aviation Museum (Canada)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft. Served with 841 sqdn Manston 1943. To RCAF 1943 |
Airworthy | |
| - | HS491 | Mk II | - | National
Aviation Museum of Canada (Canada)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft. Served with 745 sqdn RT Flight at Yarmouth (Canada) from 1943-1944 |
Stored? Parts of HS491 were used to restore HS469 and HS554. | |
| - | HS498 | Mk II | - | Private hands: Karl Enholder,
Vancouver, Canada
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft. Served with 745 squadron in 1943 |
Airworthy? | |
| - | HS503 | Mk IV | See photo | RN
Historic Flight, Yeovilton (UK)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft. Served with 745 squadron 1943, 754 squadron 1944-45 |
Airworthy? | |
| - | HS509 | Mk II | - | National
Aviation Museum of Canada (Canada)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft served with 745 squadron in 1943 |
Stored? Parts of HS509 were used to restore HS469 and HS554. | |
| C-GEVS | HS554
Serial No F/BS35270A |
Mk II | - | Private hands: Bob Spence's
Farm, Muirkirk, Ontario (Canada)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft. Delivereed to Dartmouth (Canada) 1943, thence to RCAF. 745 sqdn RT Flight Yarmouth 1943-1944 |
Airworthy | |
| - | HS618
A2001/'WS984" |
Mk II | Marked in the FAA museum previously as "W5984" and as "P4139". See photo | Fleet
Air Arm Museum -Yeovilton (UK)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm wartime aircraft.Served with 834 squadron in 1943. |
Static | |
| G-AJVH | LS326 | Mk II | See photo | Royal
Navy Historic Flight (UK)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm aircraft. Served with 836 sqdn onbaord MAC-ship Rapana |
Airworthy | |
| - | NF370 | Mk III | See photo | Imperial
War Museum - Duxford (UK)
Former RAF swordfish 1945 |
Static-under restoration 2000 | |
| - | NF389 | Mk III | Wears the squadron code letter [D]. See photo | RN
Historic Flight (UK)
Former RN Fleet Air Arm aircraft. Delivered to the RN in April 1944, thence served with the RAF 1945 and RN in 1946. |
Under restoration 2000 at Brough | |
| - | "NS122" (RCN) | Mk III | Painted as "NS122" and "TH-M". See photo | National Aviation Museum of Canada | Static - but airworthy condition | |
| - | Registration #: Not Known | Mk II | See photo | National
Air and Space Museum (USA)
Wartime history unknown |
Static | |
| - | Registration #: Not Known | Mk II | See Photo | Aero
Space Museum Association of Calgary (Canada)
Wartime history unknown |
Static-awaiting restoration | |
| - | Registration #: Not Known
Ex RCAF |
Mk II | - | Bristol
Heritage Collection, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Wartime history unknown |
Static-awaiting restoration | |
| - | Swordfish Replica | Swordfish Replica | See photo | Museum of Transport and Technology (New Zealand) | Static - Swordfish Replica | |
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