Hawker Sea Fury FB11, F-AZXJ / 37733, Christophe Jaquard
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Registration: F-AZXJ
Construction Number: 37733
Code Number: WH589 / 115-NW
Model Hawker Sea Fury FB11
Operator: Christophe Jaquard
Airport: Duxford (QFO / EGSU), UK - England
Airshow: Duxford - Flying Legends Air Show - 2013
Photographer: Martin Laycock
Date Taken: 13/07/2013
Date Submitted: 22/07/2013
Christophe Jacquard's stunning looking Hawker Sea Fury running up her Wright R-3350 prior to displaying at Flying Legends 2013. Built in 1949, originally as a Sea Fury FB.11, she was taken on charge with the Fleet Air Arm as TF987. She was returned to Hawker-Siddeley Aircraft Ltd, at Langley in 1958 and converted to a two-seater T.20. The following year she was delivered to Iraq for the Al Quwwa al Jawwiya al Iraqiya with s/n 316. One of the famous 'Baghdad Furys' she was recovered from Iraq in 1979 by Ed Jurist and David C. Tallichet and was stored dismantled at Orlando, Florida. In August 1979 ownership passed to Vintage Aircraft International Inc. She was allocated the registration N56SF. She was sold again to John D. rogers of St. Charles, Illinois in December 1981 and she was restored as a Sea Fury FB.11 with Fleet Air Arm Markings and coded 737 / JR. She made her post restoration flight in 1995. She was then sold to Brian Reynolds on the 8th November 1997 then again to the Olympic Flight Museum. In 2000 she was acquired by Carey Moore who perished in this aircraft following a crash on take off in July 2001 at the Sarnia Airshow in Ontario, Canada. The wreckage was acquired by Sanders Aviation who restored her to the standard you see here. As well as the non-standard Wright R-3350 engine she is fitted with a four bladed propeller in place of the original five-bladed unit on Bristol Centaurus powered machines, she's also equipped with wing-tip mounted 'Smokewinders' which make for a very pleasing flying display. She was bought by Christophe Jacquard on the 10th September 2010. She now masquerades as WH589, the actual Sea Fury with this serial flies as N985HW and was in the UK in the 1970s as CF-CHB/G-AGHB.
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