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This page last updated on 19th January 2006

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SURVIVORS LISTING

The list here is as complete as I can make it from personal knowledge, visitor contributions and scouring various books (in particular, Peter R. March's Military Aircraft Markings and Ken Ellis' Wrecks & Relics). If you have any changes please let me know. Some serial numbers are links to the relevant entry in the survivors gallery - with a recent(ish) picture of the preserved aircraft as it is today. If you have pictures of Gannets you'd like to share with the world, please, please, let me know! I'd especially welcome pictures of the aircraft that aren't in the survivors gallery.

COMPLETE AIRCRAFT

AS.1
SerialOwner & location
'XA131' (really XA331)Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia
XA334Camden Museum of Aviation, Narellan, New South Wales, Australia
XA434Australian National Museum of Flight, Nowra, New South Wales, Australia
XG789Air Museum, Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia

T.2
SerialOwner & location
XA508Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport, Warwickshire

AEW.3
SerialOwner & location
?Kal Aero Services (for sale), Bonita, California, USA
XL450Luftwaffenmuseum (stored), Hermeskeil, Germany
XL472Gatwick Aviation Museum, Charlwood, Surrey
XL482 (N1350X)Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA
XL497HMS Gannet, Prestwick, Strathclyde, Scotland
XL500 (G-KAEW)Kennet Aviation, Chatham, Kent
XL502 (G-BMYP)Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, Yorkshire
XL503Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset
XP226Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire

AS.4
SerialOwner & location
AS-00Museum Pusat TNI - Satria Mandala (Armed Forces Central Museum), Jakarta, Indonesia
AS-07 (painted as AS-00)Lanudal Juanda NAS Museum, Surabaya, Indonesia
S-105 (AS-05)Bumi Moro Naval Academy, Surabaya, Indonesia
UA+106 (really UA+110, ex XG840)Luftwaffenmuseum, Berlin-Gatow, Germany
UA+112 (cancelled XG852)Technik Museum Speyer, Germany
UA+113 (ex XG853)Aeronauticum Nordholz, Germany
XA459Privately owned (or sale), Lambourn, Berkshire

COD.4
SerialOwner & location
XA466Fleet Air Arm Museum (stored), RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset

T.5
SerialOwner & location
XG882 (composite with XA463 and XG889)Privately owned, Errol Airfield, Tayside, Scotland
XG883Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Woodley, Berkshire
XG888Australian National Museum of Flight, Nowra, New South Wales, Australia
XT752 (N752XT, ex G-AYPO, WN365)Shannan Hendricks (stored), Goose Bay, Canada

ECM.6
SerialOwner & location
XG797Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire
XG831Flambards Theme Park, Helston, Cornwall

NOSE/COCKPIT/OTHER SECTIONS

SIMULATOR
SerialOwner & location
N/ARichard Jones, Hooton Park Airfield, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
UnknownDunkeswell Memorial Museum, Dunkeswell Aerodrome, Devon

AS.1
SerialOwner & location
WN411Privately owned, Southampton, Hampshire

AEW.3
SerialOwner & location
XL449Parkhouse Aviation, Blackwater, Hampshire

AS.4
SerialOwner & location
XA460750 Sqn ATC, Aeroventure, Lakeside and Leisure Complex, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

LEADING PARTICULARS

VariantType QAS.1T.2AEW.3AS.4/COD.4T.5AS.6/ECM.6AS.7
First flight19 Sep 19499 Jun 195316 Aug 195420 Aug 195812 Mar 1956???
Crew???Three; pilot and two observersThree???
ArmamentNone??None2,000 lb of torpedoes, mines & depth charges???
Powerplant????1 3,035 hp Armstrong-Siddeley Double Mamba 1011 3,875 hp Armstrong-Siddeley Double Mamba 102??
Max. speed???280 knots299 mph (sea level)???
Service ceiling????25,000 ft???
Range????943 miles???
Empty weight????14,528 lb???
Max. take off weight???26,000 lb22,506 lb???
Wing span???54 ft 4 in54 ft 4 in???
Wing area????4????
Length???44 ft43 ft???
Height????13 ft 8 in???
Production31813844758??

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