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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Fairey Flycatcher: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
- 2. 1-72 scale Fairey Flycatcher, AMV 2012 Show, Hyeres. (8130909867): Roland Turner from Birmingham, Great Britain· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. A Royal Navy Fairey Flycatcher biplane (N9928), ca. 1920s (8676959278): National Library of Australia from Canberra, Australia· No restrictions
- 4. Fairey Flycatcher (replica) AN0857734: Anthony Noble· GFDL 1.2
- 5. Fairey Flycatcher (replica) AN2109228: Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation· GFDL 1.2
what is it?
The Fairey Flycatcher was a British single-seat biplane carrier-borne fighter aircraft made by Fairey Aviation Company which served from 1923 to 1934. It was produced with a conventional undercarriage for carrier use, although this could be exchanged for floats for catapult use aboard capital ships.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · floatplane · 8.8 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 104 years ago, in 1922.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1922-11
- introduced
- 1923
- retired
- 1934
- status
- retired
- number built
- 196
- role
- fighter
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Fairey Aviation Company
- engines
- 1× Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IV / Mercury IIA / Jaguar IV
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 1
- length
- 7 m
- wingspan
- 8.8 m
- height
- 3.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,374 kg
- top speed
- 214 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,791 m
- landing gear
- floatplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1393155, Wikipedia: Fairey Flycatcher (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.