{"id":27997495,"date":"2026-10-14T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fairey-gordon-nz629-last-surviving-restored-for-sale\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:35:12","slug":"fairey-gordon-nz629-last-surviving-restored-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/fairey-gordon-nz629-last-surviving-restored-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairey Gordon NZ629: The Last Survivor of an RAF Biplane Bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Somewhere near Mount White, the Fairey Gordon spun, recovered, and then flew into the trees on a ridge. It flipped over and slid down the slope, coming to rest hanging upside down in the bush.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Both men survived. One of them, Walter Raphael, pulled his badly injured companion, Wilfred Everist, out of the wreck and got him to a shearers' hut. The aircraft, serial NZ629, was left on the mountain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Eighty-six years later, that wreck is the only Fairey Gordon left in the world. Its restoration has now been completed in New Zealand, and the aircraft is for sale, with a sales pitch aimed squarely at one of the country's most famous film directors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f6f8;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:26px 0\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts: Fairey Gordon<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Role:<\/strong> Two-seat light bomber and general-purpose aircraft<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Manufacturer:<\/strong> Fairey Aviation, United Kingdom<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Developed from:<\/strong> Fairey IIIF<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 3 March 1931<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Engine:<\/strong> One Armstrong Siddeley Panther IIA 14-cylinder radial, 525 hp<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Maximum speed:<\/strong> 145 mph (about 233 km\/h)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Armament:<\/strong> One fixed Vickers and one Lewis machine gun, up to 500 lb of bombs<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>New-build Gordons for the RAF:<\/strong> 178 (154 Mk I and 24 Mk II)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Naval version:<\/strong> Fairey Seal<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:3px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Survivors:<\/strong> One: NZ629, ex-RAF K2759<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The IIIF's Last Evolution<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Gordon was not a new design so much as the final development of one of the RAF's great workhorses, the Fairey IIIF. Fairey fitted the IIIF airframe with the Armstrong Siddeley Panther radial, and the result first flew on 3 March 1931. According to Wikipedia, 178 new Gordons were built for the RAF, 154 Mark Is and 24 Mark IIs with a larger fin and rudder, and about 80 IIIFs were converted to a similar standard. The Royal Navy's version was called the Seal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Gordon was a product of the RAF's long inter-war policing role in the Middle East and Africa. It was fabric-covered, slow by later standards and obsolete within a few years. Production ended when Fairey switched to a new torpedo biplane, the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fairey-swordfish\/\">Swordfish<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/raf-fairey-iiif-47-squadron-khartoum-blue-nile.jpg\" alt=\"Three Fairey IIIF seaplanes of No. 47 Squadron RAF on the Blue Nile at Khartoum\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Fairey IIIFs of No. 47 Squadron on the Blue Nile at Khartoum. The Gordon was the last development of the IIIF, and 47 Squadron later flew Gordons. Photo: Air Historical Branch, RAF, Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPrSjERIs7g\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:6px 0 24px;font-style:italic\">Period film of RAF Fairey Gordons on bombing training in Egypt, around 1935.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Biplane at War in 1941<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>By 1939 the type had mostly been retired, but a few squadrons in Egypt were still flying it, and the Gordon had one last moment of fame. In April 1941, a pro-Axis coup in Iraq threatened the RAF base at Habbaniya, west of Baghdad. Its No. 4 Flying Training School had a mixed collection of 84 mostly obsolete aircraft, including seven Fairey Gordons, each able to carry two 250 lb bombs. When Iraqi forces surrounded the base, the training school went to war, and the Gordons took part in the defence of Habbaniya in early May 1941.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Six Gordons also went to the Egyptian air force, and the Brazilian Navy flew the type too. In April 1939, 49 Gordons were dispatched to New Zealand. They were used briefly as pilot trainers, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/royal-new-zealand-air-force\/\">Royal New Zealand Air Force<\/a> found them worn out, and the last was struck off in 1943.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/raf-fairey-gordon-k1736-40-squadron-1932.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Fairey Gordon K1736 of No. 40 Squadron in 1932\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Fairey Gordon, K1736, of No. 40 Squadron RAF, photographed in May 1932. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From a Mountainside to a Showroom<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>NZ629, formerly RAF K2759, was one of those New Zealand Gordons. After the 1940 crash, its instruments, guns and engine were removed and the rest was left in the bush. It was recovered decades later by Charles \"Bunny\" Darby, with Walter Raphael helping to locate the site. Pacific Wrecks gives the recovery year as 1976, while restorer Robert Reece told aeroTELEGRAPH it was 1972. The remains then spent many years in storage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reece, of the restoration firm Aviationz, came across the stored remains in 2019 and began a full restoration. According to aeroTELEGRAPH, that work is now complete. The aircraft is offered as a static display piece, not airworthy, with its original pilot's seat, a Lewis gun and a Vickers gun mount. Even an RNZAF loan form found in the gunner's compartment has been kept.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2NWBxT-KV0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:6px 0 24px;font-style:italic\">An episode of a video series documenting the restoration of NZ629, the last surviving Fairey Gordon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Present for Peter?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The sales pitch is unusual. Reece has named the aircraft's website presentforpeter.co.uk, a suggestion that New Zealand director Peter Jackson, one of the world's best-known private collectors of historic military aircraft, might buy it as a present to himself for his birthday on 31 October. Reece told aeroTELEGRAPH that other buyers are welcome too, and that there is no price list.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The aircraft is being sold through negotiation, not through an auction.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Robert Reece<\/strong> &mdash; restorer, Aviationz, to aeroTELEGRAPH, October 2026 (translated from German)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>He would not say where the aircraft is kept, only that it is in a warehouse. Wherever it ends up, it will be the only place on Earth where you can stand next to a Fairey Gordon. Not bad for an aircraft that spent decades hanging in the trees.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7RPLD9SCAxo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:6px 0 24px;font-style:italic\">A later episode of the NZ629 restoration series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: aeroTELEGRAPH (13 October 2026); Wikipedia (Fairey Gordon; Anglo-Iraqi War); Pacific Wrecks; faireygordon.com; Key Aero.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>How many Fairey Gordons survive?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Only one Fairey Gordon is known to survive: NZ629, formerly RAF K2759, which crashed in New Zealand's Southern Alps on 12 April 1940. Its restoration in New Zealand by Robert Reece of Aviationz was reported complete in October 2026, and it is for sale as a static display aircraft.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the Fairey Gordon?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Fairey Gordon was a two-seat British light bomber and general-purpose biplane developed from the Fairey IIIF. It first flew on 3 March 1931, was powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Panther radial engine and served with the RAF, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Egypt and Brazil.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the Fairey Gordon see combat in World War II?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes, in a small way. In April 1941, seven Fairey Gordons were among the aircraft of No. 4 Flying Training School at RAF Habbaniya in Iraq, and they took part in the defence of the base when Iraqi forces surrounded it in early May 1941.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to Fairey Gordon NZ629?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">On 12 April 1940, trainee pilots Walter Raphael and Wilfred Everist crashed NZ629 into trees near Mount White in New Zealand. Both survived. The wreck stayed on the mountain for decades, was recovered by Charles Darby and stored, and was restored from 2019 by Robert Reece.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Is the last Fairey Gordon for sale?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. Restorer Robert Reece is offering NZ629 for sale by negotiation, not auction, as a static display aircraft. He has jokingly pitched it to director Peter Jackson as a birthday present, but says other buyers are welcome. 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