Fairey Aviation
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Image:Fairey Aviation.png 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 - biplane figher, 1922
- Fairey Firefly (biplane) - 1925
- Fairey Fox - biplane bomber, 1925
- Fairey Seal - biplane torpedo bomer, reconnaissance floatplane, 1930
- Fairey Swordfish - biplane torpedo bomber, 1934
- Fairey Battle - light bomber, 1936
- Fairey Seafox - reconnaissance floatplane, 1936
- Fairey Fulmar - carrier-borne fighter, 1937
- Fairey Albacore - carrier-borne biplane torpedo bomber, 1938
- Fairey Barracuda - carrier-borne divebomber/torpedo bomber, 1940
- Fairey Firefly - carrier-borne fighter, 1941
- Fairey Spearfish - divebomber, 1945
- Fairey Gyrodyne - 1947
- Fairey Gannet - carrier-borne ASW/AEW aircraft, 1949
- Fairey F.D.1 - experimental delta wing
- Fairey F.D.2 - record-setting delta-wing, 1954
- Fairey Rotodyne - compound helicopter, 1957
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In 1937, workers at the Fairey Aviation Plant formed a brass band. For some 60 years the band was associated with the company and its successors, although the Fairey Band has now had to turn to external sources for financial backing. The band however retains it's identity with the company under its current name Fairey FP (Music) Band. The Fairey Band is synonymous with success within the brass band scene, winning national and international titles throughout its proud history.de:Fairey
