Fairey Aviation
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The Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century, notable for a number of important planes, including the Fairey III family and the Fairey Swordfish. Founded in 1916, Fairey merged with Westland Aircraft in 1960.
Westland Aircraft became Westland Helicopters which was later merged with other companies to form the Hawker Siddeley Group and eventually British Aerospace.
The company's first craft was the Fairey Campania, a patrol seaplane that first flew in February 1917.
Aircraft, by date:
- Fairey Campania - 1917
- Fairey III - large biplane family, starting late 1917
- Fairey Flycatcher - 1922
- Fairey Firefly (biplane) - 1925
- Fairey Fox - biplane bomber, 1925
- Fairey Swordfish - biplane torpedo bomber, 1934
- Fairey Battle - 1936
- Fairey Seafox - 1936
- Fairey Fulmar - 1937
- Fairey Albacore - 1938
- Fairey Barracuda - 1940
- Fairey Firefly - 1941
- Fairey Spearfish - 1945
- Fairey Gyrodyne - 1947
- Fairey Gannet - 1949
- Fairey F.D.2 - record-setting delta-wing, 1954
- Fairey Rotodyne - compound helicopter, 1957
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