FAIREY AVIATION LTD.

UK

Founded by C R. (later Sir Richard) Fairey, initially to build 12
Fairey III
III
Short 827 seaplanes. Leased premises at Hayes, Middlesex, replaced by new factory 1917-1918. Became a public company March 5,1929 and the following year opened new airfield at Harmondsworth, later requisitioned and incorporated in site
Fairey Hendon
"Hendon"
for London's Heathrow Airport. Reorganized as holding company The Fairey Company Ltd. March 31,1959, aircraft manufacturing subsidiary becoming Fairey Aviation Ltd. and the Stockport plant Fairey Engineering Ltd. Fairey Aviation Ltd. merged with Westland Aircraft
Fairey Long Range Monoplane
Long Range Monoplane
Ltd. in 1960. Britten-Norman (Bembridge) Ltd. acquired 1972. Fairey group into liquidation 1977; engineering activities acquired by National Enterprise Board; Britten-Norman operated by liquidator pending sale.

Company designs included F.2 twin-engined biplane fighter; camber-changing trailing-edge
Fairey Swordfish
Swordfish
flaps introduced on Hamble Baby. Fairey III series introduced 1917; final model IIIF entered production 1926 and declared obsolete 1940. Fairey Hendon (1930) was the first British cantilever monoplane heavy bomber; Long-range Monoplane captured absolute
Fairey Barracuda
"Barracuda"
distance record for Britain 1933. The famous Fairey Swordfish ("Stringbag") torpedo bomber entered production in 1936; 2,392 were built by Fairey and Blackburn; it was the only biplane to remain in service throughout Second
Fairey Gannet
"Gannet"
World War. Other famous aircraft included Battle light bomber, Fulmar fleet fighter, and Barracuda dive-bomber. Firefly name revived for Rolls-Royce Griffon-powered monoplane which entered FAA service in 1943, serving in Korea in 1950. First
Fairey F.D.2
F.D.2
FAA aircraft to combine search and strike roles was the Gannet with Double Mamba coupled turbines; developed Gyrodyne convertible helicopter 1946; Jet Gyrodyne 1953; Rotodyne compound helicopter airliner 1957. Fairey Delta 2 research aircraft set world air speed record of 1,822km/h on March 10, 1956.


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Hamble Baby
"Campania"
F.2
N9
III
F.128
N10
Pintail
Flycatcher
Fawn
N.4
Fremantle
"Fox"
Ferret
Firefly (biplane)
Long Range Monoplane
Fleetwing
"Hendon"
Gordon
Seal
Swordfish
TSR I
G.4/31
Fantome
"Battle"
Seafox
"Fulmar"
P.4/34
"Albacore"
"Barracuda"
"Firefly"
"Spearfish"
"Gannet"
FD.1
F.D.2
Gannet A.E.W.3