• Aircraft:

  Hawker Sea Fury FB.11

• Reg: VH-SHF photos
• Serial #:

  41H-643827

• Airline: Private
• Photo Date: Feb 15, 2003
• Uploaded: May 23, 2022
• Avalon Airport - YMAV, Australia

Low res pre-digital Port-side view of a former Royal Navy / Iraqi Hawker Sea Fury FB11, operated by ‘Flying Fighters’ as VH-SHF (MSN 41H/643827) Code WJ232/O-114, doing a flap-less take-off at Avalon YMAV on 15Feb2003. (Avalon International Airshow 2003.) The Sea Fury wears Royal Navy pale green / grey livery, with ‘Invasion Stripes’ as applied during the Korean War (after a ‘friendly fire’ Sea Fury shoot-down.) This aircraft was previously operated in New Zealand in the 1990s as ZK-SFR.

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