Home / Aircraft Profiles / British Aircraft Fairey Fulmar Quick facts - First flight: 4th January 1940 | Entered service: 10th May 1940 | Total built: 600 The Fulmar would provide the Fleet Air

Home / Aircraft Profiles / British Aircraft Fairey Battle Quick facts - First flight: 10th March 1936 | Entered service: 20th May 1937 | Total built: 2,200 Designed as a light bomber when the Battle

Home / Aircraft Profiles / British Aircraft Fairey Albacore Quick facts - First flight: 12th December 1938 | Entered service: 15th March 1940 | Total built: 800 The Albacore was a single-engined

Home / Aircraft Profiles / British Aircraft Fairey Barracuda Quick facts - First flight: 7th December 1940 | Entered service: 10th January 1943 | Total built: 2,602 The Barracuda was the Fleet Air

Home / Aircraft Profiles / British Aircraft Fairey Swordfish Quick facts - First flight: 17th April 1934 | Entered service: July 1936 | Total built: 2,391 The Swordfish played a vital role for the

Home / Aircraft Profiles / British Aircraft Fairey Firefly Quick facts - First flight: 22nd December 1941 | Entered service: 1st October 1943 | Total built: 1,700 The Firefly entered service with

Fairey Albacore – No. 415 Squadron Operating from RAF Manston, Fairey Albacores of No. 415 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, equipped with Air-to-Surface Vessel Mk II radar and a bomb load of six

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21st July 1940 Six Fairey Battles, three from No. 103 Squadron and three from No. 150 Squadron, attack oil storage tanks in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Adolf Hitler declares that the 15th September 1940