Gannet photo

Hey – don’t worry; Americans assume that it is the Federal Aviation Authority or something! Just that it is always regarded as being the stunted, almost illegitimate, off-cut from the RAF – and it is shortly to lose its fixed wing strike/support capability to the crabs yet again…
Not your fault – have a jelly baby!

Flood.

:rolleyes: oooops 😮 😮 😮 my first post on the historical forum and I have crashed right away.

Was thinking RN, but then the FAA confused me, never seen Fleet Air Arm abbreviated. Sorry, I was sleepy I think…because I was thinking Fuera Area Argentina…but of course the NAS then doesn’t make sense.

Thanks. And the ones of the RN, when was that? replaced by the AEW version of the SeaKing I guess?

(Rolls eyes and mutters to himself…;))
The Gannets that I was referring to were Royal Navy ones – the FAA is the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. No AEW Gannets were used by any other air arm.
The Searchwater RADAR equiped Sea King HAS.2(AEW) joined 824NAS’s (Naval Air Squadron) ‘D’ Flight on 14/6/1982. The Sk2AEW at somepoint became the SkAEW2 and ‘D’ Flight became 849NAS on 8/11/1984.

Hope this makes things a little clearer…:)

Flood.

The Navy Gannets were retired in 1978 but it wasn’t until 1982 that the first AEW Sea King flew.

Thanks. And the ones of the RN, when was that? replaced by the AEW version of the SeaKing I guess?

Gannets? The last in service was the AEW3 version – like XL482 above – and they were retired from service with B Flight 849NAS, FAA, on 15th December 1978.

Flood.

When were the last retired by the way?

Ant,

Their is a disput on ownership of this aircraft, when I was their the talk was it was bought by the person who did alot of the Museum trading, and he sold it another person.

The other question is how to move the plane. The big problem is can the wings be removed and if so how do go about moving it.

Yes she is in a bad state but at least its complete.

Hang on,IIRC this aircraft has been displayed with her wings spread since arrival,yet here they’re folded.She was also in a very shady spot under the trees in one corner of the outdoor display area.(Well lets’ face it,it would be worrying if the trees were growing indoors!).
I’ve recently heard whispers about this aircraft being bought as a spares source by someone in the UK who already has one Gannet on the way to airworthiness. Could the sudden activity with XL482 mean she’s on the move??

The poor old girl is looking somewhat sad and neglected. It’s a sad fact of life that aircraft don’t do well if kept outside unless they get lots of TLC