• Aircraft:

  Fairey Firefly AS.5

• Reg: WB518 photos
• Serial #:

  F8646

• Airline: Australia - Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
• Photo Date: Apr 25, 2010
• Uploaded: Aug 30, 2010
• Other Location - Griffith town centre, Australia

This is one of those tricky ones! The original WB518 was built for the RAN and delivered in 1950. In 1965 it was delivered to Bankstown for disposal and eventually bought by the town of Griffith, NSW, as a war memorial and mounted on a pole in the centre of town. After VH-HMW/WD828 crashed in 1987, WB518 was removed from its pole and the forward fuselage and centre-section was used to rebuild WD828. The corresponding bits from WD828 were used to reconstruct WB518, and it was re-mounted on its pole.

Photographer

Aircraft

Low res close-cropped front Stbd view of RAN Fairey Firefly AS5 WB518 MSN F8646 (with Code K903 visible), pole mounted in a park in Griffith NSW during Easter 1973 (Apr 1973)

Wal Nelowkin WB518

1,348 3 0 Fairey Firefly AS.5

Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Firefly WB518 (Code K201, Cn F8646), folds her wings to the delight of spectators at Oshkosh on 01Aug2003

Wal Nelowkin WB518

9,877 2 0 Fairey Firefly AS.6

RAN Firefly WB518 (Code K201, Cn F8646), with wheels and flaps extended, overflies the Runway at Oshkosh in August 2003

Wal Nelowkin WB518

4,596 0 0 Fairey Firefly AS.6

Photo location

This is one of those tricky ones! The original WB518 was built for the RAN and delivered in 1950

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2,588 0 0 Fairey Firefly AS.5

Photographer

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