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The Fairey Firefly is a Second World War-era carrier-borne fighter aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft that was principally operated by the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). It was developed and built by the British aircraft manufacturer Fairey Aviation Company .
Firefly T.Mk 1 of Royal Netherlands Navy in 1948. Royal Netherlands Navy. Dutch Naval Aviation Service. VSQ-1; VSQ-2; VSQ-4; VSQ-5; VSQ-7; VSQ-860 - F.1/FR.1 India. Indian Navy. Indian Naval Air Arm operated 10 Fireflies from 1955 onwards for target tugging. [10] [11] Sweden. Firefly TT.Mk I of Svensk Flygtjänst AB in 1955
The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire that designed important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet. It had a strong presence in the supply of naval ...
The Fairey Firefly IIM was a British fighter of the 1930s. It was a single-seat, single-engine biplane of all-metal construction. Built by Fairey Aviation Company Limited , it served principally with the Belgian Air Force throughout the 1930s until the outbreak of World War II .
The Firefly was a private-venture design, penned by Marcel Lobelle.It was first flown on 9 November 1925 by Norman Macmillan. [1] The Air Ministry did not pursue the project, partly because of the American Curtiss engine used [2] and partly because of its wooden construction [1] and the Firefly I did not enter production.
A Griffon installed on WH632, an airworthy Fairey Firefly at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (2014) . Compared with earlier Rolls-Royce designs, the Griffon engine featured several improvements, which meant that it was physically only slightly larger than the Merlin, in spite of its 36% larger capacity of 37-litres (2,240 cu in).
The Fairey Swordfish was deployed from normal Royal Navy ships with floats through an aircraft catapult on board the ship in order to do recon or act as an artillery spotter for the ship. Artillery spotting involved the Swordfish tracking the fall of shot from its ship and relaying back where it landed to help its ship make adjustments to their ...
826 Squadron reformed as part of the Fleet Air Arm in May 1951, equipped with Firefly Mk 5 (soon replaced by Firefly AS. Mk.6) in the anti-submarine role. The Squadron flew its Fireflys off the carriers HMS Indomitable , Theseus and Glory , before re-equipping with the new Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft in January 1955, becoming the ...