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Fury TF987 N56SF
Does anyone have any thing on the location of this airframe or was it totally destroyed. Last I saw, there was a post, that it might be heading to Breckenridge TX.

thanks

Steve

Steve--

The tail group was about all to stay intact from N56SF when Carey Moore was killed in the Fury's crash 8 July 2001 at Sarnia, Ontario.

Quite a while back here on WIX someone posted that they had seen the aft end of a Fury wreck being towed on a trailer on a highway in Texas. Never heard any more about it other than vague rumours.

Terrible shame about that crash. Carey was a man of boundless enthusiasm, who had just joined the board at CWH; and N56SF was a thing of beauty...I have a nice pic of the Fury at Waterloo, Ontario, where Carey was based, on Webshots. Might post the link later. Gotta go to bed now though...morning comes all too early...

Steve T

I saw it passing through the Dallas area on Hwy 30 west bound a year or two back and emailed Steve Rister to be on the lookout if it went thought Midland. I would like to see a picture of it in its better days. There is a great article in Warbird Digest about the Sea Fury and the Sanders, great people to know.

Lynn

this is what it looked like

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/furyregi ... n56sf.html

Thanks Steve....

Lynn

Lynn--

Here's that link to my Fury pix on Webshots...

http://rides.webshots.com/album/549063044IILkaT

...these are all Furies with Canadian connections, including ill-fated N56SF.

S.

Roger that and thanks....

Lynn

Found this online this Sea Fury is back up and flying again.



Hawker Sea Fury FB11, F-AZXJ / WH589 / 115-NW, Christophe Jacquard

Type:
Hawker Sea Fury FB11

Owner / Operator:
Christophe Jacquard

Aircraft Registration:
F-AZXJ

Codes / Other Marks:
WH589 / 115-NW

Construction Number:
37733

Location:
Duxford (QFO / EGSU), UK - England

Date:
13th July 2013

Airshow:
Flying Legends 2013

Photographer:
Martin Laycock Click here to send Martin Laycock an email Contact

Additional Information

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.