The Fairey aviation company was created a British airplane manufacturer, in the year 1915 of Charles Richard Fairey (late Sir Richard) (* 1887, "† 30 September 1956 in London).

Up to then Fairey chief designer was in the airplane enterprise of the brothers Short and built in the start time of its enterprise for its former employer their water airplanes.

With the water airplane Campania developed Fairey its first own successful machine, it followed further constructions like the Fairey III, Albacore or Barracuda, and with the Swordfish succeeded to the company Fairey the most successful airplane in firm history.

After some successful attempts with the Gyrodyne - an airplane starting perpendicularly by rotor, which was propelled in the vertical flight by one conventionally at a bearing area attached propeller - developed with Fairey of the Rotodyne (first flight November 1957) as so-called combihelicopters (other designation: Combination aerogyro).

By the transition of Faireys enterprise into the Westland company in the year 1960 and associated problems did not pay the British government loans assured first for the project Rotodyne, and it was adjusted.

Worth mentioning regarding the person Sir Richard Fairey is surely still the fact that the yacht-inspired possessed a common sailing boat during the 1930-er years as well as another British aviation pioneer, Sir Thomas Sopwith, and spent both the much time to improve and make this boat faster.

This love for the Segelsport Fairey arranged to create end of the 1940-er years the company Fairey navy Ltd. produced the sailing boats.

Interesting e.g. it is that many of the boat types with some the types of aircraft had identical names, like Firefly, Albacore, Swordfish, Atalanta or Fulmar.

After the transition of the aircraft production to the Westland company, already mentioned, the enterprise under the name Fairey was further in the range aviation developments active. In May 2001 the name Fairey Group in Spectris was changed; this enterprise is in accordance with own data now an offerer of electronic control systems.

Admitted Fairey sample (chronologically sorted according to first flight)

• Fairey Campania
• Fairey F.2
• Fairey N9
• Fairey III
• Fairey Pintail
• Fairey Flycatcher
• Fairey Fawn
• Fairey Atalanta
• Fairey N.4 Titania
• Fairey Freemantle
• Fairey Fox
• Fairey Ferret
• Fairey Firefly (Doppeldecker/1925)
• Fairey Hendon
• Fairey Albacore
• Fairey Barracuda
• Fairey Battle
• Fairey Firefly (1941)
• Fairey Swordfish
• Fairey Gannet
• Fairey Rotodyne (stroke and/or autogyro)

see also: List of the types of aircraft

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