Sea Vixen WAF2.
At Bournemouth Airport.
The photos are mine, and the text is from Wikipedia:
de Havilland Sea Vixen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| DH.110 Sea Vixen |
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| The only airworthy Sea Vixen (civil registration G-CVIX) at the 2009 Yeovilton Air Show |
| Role |
Carrier-based fighter |
| Manufacturer |
de Havilland |
| First flight |
26 September 1951[1] |
| Introduction |
July 1959 |
| Retired |
1972 |
| Primary user |
Royal Navy |
| Number built |
145 |
The
de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen was a
twin boom, twin-engined 1950s–1960s British two-seat
jet fighter of the
Fleet Air Arm designed by
de Havilland at
Hatfield,
Hertfordshire. Developed from an earlier first generation jet fighter,
the Sea Vixen was a capable carrier-based fleet defence fighter that
served into the 1970s. Initially produced by de Havilland it was later
known as the
Hawker Siddeley Sea Vixen after de Havilland became a part of the
Hawker Siddeley Group in 1960. All 140 production Sea Vixens were manufactured and first flown from
Christchurch, Dorset. A single example remains airworthy today in the UK and is displayed regularly at airshows.
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