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Fairey Fulmar I: Total of 250 built for FAA, first flight being on January 4, 1940, with Merlin VIII engine. Entered service June 1940 with No 808 Sqn, and first operations Sept/Oct 1940 on Malta convoys. Equipped 14 front-line squadrons by end-1942 including one in Egypt and one in India; also operated as night-intruder from shore bases, including Malta, and as night-fighter with No 813 Sqn ori Russian convoys. One captured and operated by Vichy French forces at Dakar in 1941. Fairey Fulmar II: As Fairey Fulmar I but fitted with 1,300 hp Merlin 30, Rotol propeller and tropical filters. One Mk I converted, first flown January 20, 1941, and 350 production aircraft delivered, ending February 1943. Squadrons: 700, 726, 731, 733, 739, 740, 746, 748, 756, 757, 759-762, 766-769, 772, 775, 778-782, 784, 787, 787Z, 788, 789, 790, 792-795, 798, 800, 803-809, 815, 822, 827, 835, 879, 881, 884, 886, 887, 889, 893, 897. ![]() |
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