{"id":21796,"date":"2026-08-22T18:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/?page_id=21796"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:12:54","slug":"fairey-gannet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/nl\/aircraft\/fairey-gannet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairey Gannet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mfam\">\n<style> html{overflow-x:hidden} body.page-id-21796{overflow-x:hidden} body.page-id-21796 h1.entry-title.main_title{display:none} body.page-id-21796 #sidebar{display:none} body.page-id-21796 #left-area{width:100%!important;float:none;padding:0} body.page-id-21796 #main-content .container::before{display:none!important;background:none!important} body.page-id-21796 #main-content .container{padding-top:0} #mfam{width:100vw;margin-left:calc(50% - 50vw);overflow:hidden;font-family:'Gilroy regular',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;background:#fff;line-height:1.65;font-size:17px} #mfam 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.sources{columns:2;column-gap:34px;margin-top:6px} #mfam .sources .src{break-inside:avoid;margin:0 0 16px;font-size:14.5px;color:#39424e} #mfam .sources .src b{font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';display:block;color:#0d1117} #mfam .foot{font-size:13px;color:#8794a6;margin-top:26px;border-top:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding-top:18px;max-width:820px} @media(max-width:900px){#mfam .eng,#mfam .rec,#mfam .relgrid{grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr}#mfam .spectbls{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:22px}#mfam .gallery{grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr)}#mfam .hero h1{font-size:42px}#mfam .sources{columns:1}} @media(max-width:600px){#mfam .eng,#mfam .rec,#mfam .relgrid{grid-template-columns:1fr}#mfam .hero h1{font-size:34px}#mfam .hero{min-height:74vh}#mfam h2{font-size:25px}#mfam .scard{flex:0 0 84vw}} <\/style>\n<section class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"hero-inner\">\n<div class=\"brd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/\">Book of Beasts<\/a> &nbsp;\/&nbsp; Cold War Carrier Aircraft &nbsp;\/&nbsp; Fairey Gannet<\/div>\n<h1>Fairey Gannet<\/h1>\n<p class=\"claim\">The Royal Navy&rsquo;s portly carrier submarine-hunter and radar picket &mdash; powered by a unique double turboprop driving contra-rotating propellers, one half shut down to loiter for hours over the sea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1949<\/b><span>First flight<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1955<\/b><span>Entered FAA service<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~350<\/b><span>Built<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1978<\/b><span>Carrier AEW retired<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Role:<\/b> Carrier anti-submarine &amp; airborne early warning<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Era:<\/b> Cold War (1955&ndash;1978)<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Engine:<\/b> Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba (contra-rotating props)<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Origin:<\/b> United Kingdom<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status:<\/b> Retired &middot; many preserved<\/span><a class=\"chip-fly\" href=\"#faq\">Can you fly a Fairey Gannet today?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">The Story<\/p>\n<h2>The Fairey Gannet: the Royal Navy&rsquo;s submarine-hunter and all-seeing eye of the fleet<\/h2>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>The Fairey Gannet is one of those aircraft that looks, at first glance, almost comically awkward &mdash; portly, deep-bodied and bristling with bulges &mdash; and turns out, on closer inspection, to be one of the cleverest carrier aircraft Britain ever built. For more than two decades it was the Royal Navy&rsquo;s eyes and ears over the sea: first as a carrier-borne submarine-hunter, then, in a completely different guise, as the airborne-early-warning radar picket that watched the horizon for the fleet. When the last of them left the deck of HMS Ark Royal in 1978, the Royal Navy lost a capability it would badly miss just four years later in the South Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The Gannet was born from the lessons of the Second World War at sea, when the submarine had come close to strangling Britain&rsquo;s supply lines. In 1945 the Admiralty issued a requirement for a new carrier aircraft that could both find a submarine and destroy it &mdash; a single machine carrying the search equipment, the crew to operate it, and the weapons to attack, all able to fly from an aircraft carrier&rsquo;s deck. Fairey Aviation&rsquo;s answer first flew on 19 September 1949, and after a long development the Gannet entered Fleet Air Arm service in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Getting there had not been quick. The Gannet was selected over a rival Blackburn design for the anti-submarine requirement, but its novel systems &mdash; above all the twin-engine Double Mamba and its complex propeller gearbox &mdash; took years to perfect, and the type did not reach the front line until six years after its first flight. When it did, it was among the first purpose-designed turboprop anti-submarine aircraft anywhere in the world, and the long gestation had bought the Royal Navy a genuinely capable machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull\">&ldquo;Two turbines, one propeller shaft, and the ability to shut down half your engine and keep flying &mdash; the Gannet could loiter over the sea for hours on a single Mamba.&rdquo;<span>&mdash; the cleverness of the Double Mamba, in a sentence<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the heart of that cleverness was the aircraft&rsquo;s remarkable powerplant: the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba. It was, in effect, two Mamba turboprop engines mounted side by side and coupled through a common gearbox to drive two contra-rotating propellers &mdash; one turned by each engine. Crucially, the two halves could be run independently. For takeoff, climb and a fast dash, both turbines drove both propellers at full power. But once on patrol, the crew could shut one engine down and feather its propeller, cruising economically on a single Mamba and stretching the aircraft&rsquo;s endurance far beyond what a conventional design could manage. For an anti-submarine aircraft, whose whole job was to stay airborne over a patrol area for as long as possible, this was a genuinely brilliant solution. The contra-rotating propellers, meanwhile, cancelled out each other&rsquo;s torque, giving the pilot an aircraft that behaved beautifully on the deck and in the air.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Gannet was shaped by the demands of carrier life. It was a three-seat aircraft: a pilot up front and, in the anti-submarine version, two observers behind him to work the radar and the sonobuoys and to coordinate an attack. To fit below deck it had a distinctive double-folding wing, its outer panels folding twice to shrink the aircraft to a fraction of its span. It carried its torpedoes and depth charges in an internal weapons bay, keeping the airframe clean, and a retractable radar dome under the rear fuselage scanned the sea for surfaced submarines. It was rugged, practical and utterly built for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, the Gannet was very much a team aircraft. The pilot flew and delivered the attack, while the two observers in the rear worked the search radar, monitored the sonobuoys and plotted the hunt &mdash; the patient, painstaking business of turning a fleeting contact into a firm track and then an attack. Long hours droning over grey water, sifting faint signals for the trace of a submarine, was the daily reality of the anti-submarine mission, and the Gannet&rsquo;s roomy fuselage and long endurance were built precisely to make that work bearable and effective.<\/p>\n<p>In its original anti-submarine role the Gannet served the Fleet Air Arm through the second half of the 1950s and into the 1960s, flying from Britain&rsquo;s carriers and hunting the growing Soviet submarine fleet. But technology was moving quickly, and by the early 1960s the anti-submarine mission was passing to helicopters, which could hover, dip a sonar directly into the sea, and operate from smaller ships. The fixed-wing Gannet&rsquo;s days as a submarine-hunter were numbered &mdash; but the aircraft had a spectacular second act waiting.<\/p>\n<p>That second act was airborne early warning. A fleet at sea is desperately vulnerable to low-flying aircraft and missiles that slip in below the radar horizon of its own ships; the answer is to put a powerful radar up in the air, where it can see much farther. Britain took the big American AN\/APS-20 radar &mdash; the same set used in its land-based Avro Shackletons &mdash; and fitted it into a heavily modified Gannet, the AEW.3, which carried it in a large, distinctive radome slung under the belly. From 1960 the Gannet AEW.3 became the Royal Navy&rsquo;s carrier-borne radar picket, orbiting ahead of the fleet and watching for threats far beyond the horizon. It was an unglamorous but vital job, and the Gannet did it for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The radar at the heart of the AEW.3 had a long pedigree: the AN\/APS-20 dated back to the Second World War and had already served in a string of American and British early-warning aircraft. Housed in the Gannet&rsquo;s bulbous underbelly radome, it turned the little carrier aircraft into a surprisingly capable radar picket, and the AEW.3 used a more powerful version of the Double Mamba to haul the extra weight aloft. It was a clever piece of adaptation &mdash; taking a proven radar and a proven airframe and combining them into exactly the capability the fleet needed.<\/p>\n<p>The Gannet also took on other tasks. A carrier-onboard-delivery version, the COD.4, ferried people and urgent stores out to the carriers at sea, and electronic-countermeasures variants added to the fleet&rsquo;s toolkit. And the aircraft was exported: the Royal Australian Navy flew Gannets from its carrier HMAS Melbourne, the West German Bundesmarine used them for maritime patrol over the Baltic and North Sea, and the Indonesian Navy operated them too. For a specialised British carrier aircraft, it found a respectable overseas career.<\/p>\n<p>The Gannet&rsquo;s story has a poignant ending. When HMS Ark Royal &mdash; Britain&rsquo;s last conventional fixed-wing carrier &mdash; was decommissioned in 1978, the Gannet AEW.3 was retired with her, and the Royal Navy was left with no carrier-borne fixed-wing early-warning aircraft at all. That gap was felt with painful clarity in the 1982 Falklands War, when British task-force ships, lacking airborne radar cover, were caught out by low-level Argentine air attacks; several were hit and sunk. The lesson was learned the hard way, and the Navy hurriedly fitted early-warning radars to Sea King helicopters as a stopgap. Around 350 Gannets were built in all, and because the type was so distinctive and so loved by enthusiasts, a good number survive today in museums and, for a while, in flying condition &mdash; a fitting afterlife for one of the most ingenious carrier aircraft of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">01<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gannet&rsquo;s origins: a purpose-built carrier submarine-hunter<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Gannet grew directly out of the anti-submarine lessons of the Second World War, when German U-boats had come close to cutting Britain&rsquo;s Atlantic lifeline. In 1945 the Admiralty issued Specification GR.17\/45 for a new carrier aircraft that could carry out the whole anti-submarine mission in one airframe &mdash; searching for the submarine, and then attacking it &mdash; from the deck of an aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Fairey Aviation&rsquo;s design, initially known as the Type 17, first flew on 19 September 1949. Development took several years, as the novel Double Mamba engine and the aircraft&rsquo;s complex systems were perfected, and the Gannet AS.1 finally entered Fleet Air Arm service in 1955. It was one of the first purpose-designed, turboprop-powered carrier anti-submarine aircraft in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">02<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba: two engines, one aircraft<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Gannet&rsquo;s defining feature was its powerplant, the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba (or &ldquo;Twin Mamba&rdquo;). It consisted of two Mamba turboprop engines mounted side by side and coupled through a common gearbox, each driving one of two contra-rotating propellers on the nose. In effect it was a single power unit made of two independent halves.<\/p>\n<p>This gave the Gannet the best of both worlds. With both engines running it had ample power for a heavily loaded carrier takeoff and for climb and dash. And because the halves were independent, the aircraft did not depend on both to fly &mdash; a vital safety margin over the sea, and the key to its most useful trick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">03<\/span><span class=\"gt\">One engine shut down: how the Gannet loitered for hours<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The real payoff of the Double Mamba came on patrol. An anti-submarine aircraft earns its keep by staying airborne over a search area for as long as possible, and here the Gannet had a unique advantage: once it reached its patrol station, the crew could shut down one of the two engines and feather its propeller, cruising economically on a single Mamba.<\/p>\n<p>Running on half its powerplant, the Gannet burned far less fuel and could loiter for hours longer than a conventional aircraft of similar size. The contra-rotating propellers made this practical &mdash; with one propeller stopped, there was no great asymmetric drag or torque to fight. It was a genuinely elegant piece of engineering, tailored precisely to the endurance the anti-submarine mission demanded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">04<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Contra-rotating propellers: taming the torque<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Gannet&rsquo;s two propellers, mounted one behind the other on concentric shafts, turned in opposite directions. This contra-rotating arrangement absorbed the considerable power of the Double Mamba through a large total blade area while keeping the propeller diameter manageable for a carrier aircraft &mdash; important for deck clearance.<\/p>\n<p>Just as valuable, contra-rotating propellers cancel out each other&rsquo;s torque and slipstream effects. A single large propeller of that power would have tried to twist the aircraft on takeoff and made it a handful to fly; the balanced pair made the Gannet docile and predictable, exactly the qualities wanted for the demanding business of landing on a pitching carrier deck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">05<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Folding wings and carrier life<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>Space on an aircraft carrier is precious, and the Gannet was designed around it. Its wings folded &mdash; and not just once: the Gannet used a distinctive double-fold, each wing folding twice, to shrink the aircraft&rsquo;s span dramatically so that more could be packed into the hangar below deck. Folded, the portly Gannet took on an ungainly, insect-like look that enthusiasts came to love.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else about the aircraft was built for the deck too: a sturdy undercarriage and arrester hook for carrier landings, an internal weapons bay to keep the airframe clean, and three crew seated in tandem within the deep fuselage. It was never elegant, but it was superbly practical &mdash; a true carrier aircraft in every detail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">06<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Hunting submarines: the Gannet AS.1 and AS.4<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>In its original role the Gannet was a submarine-hunter, and it carried the tools of the trade. A retractable radar under the rear fuselage searched for submarines caught on the surface; sonobuoys, dropped into the sea, listened for submerged boats; and an internal weapons bay held homing torpedoes and depth charges to attack. The two observers behind the pilot worked the sensors and directed the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>The AS.1 entered service in 1955, followed by the more powerful AS.4. Flying from Britain&rsquo;s carriers through the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Gannet was the Fleet Air Arm&rsquo;s fixed-wing answer to the growing Soviet submarine threat &mdash; until the anti-submarine role began passing to helicopters, which could dip a sonar directly into the water and fly from far smaller ships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">07<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gannet AEW.3: the fleet&rsquo;s airborne radar picket<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Gannet&rsquo;s second career was as an airborne-early-warning aircraft. A fleet&rsquo;s own ships can only see as far as their radar horizon, leaving them blind to low-flying aircraft and missiles until it is almost too late. The solution is to lift a radar high into the air, and Britain did exactly that by fitting the big American AN\/APS-20 radar into a much-modified Gannet.<\/p>\n<p>The result, the AEW.3, carried the radar in a large radome slung beneath the fuselage and entered service from 1960. Orbiting ahead of the fleet, it could detect threats far beyond the range of the ships&rsquo; own radars and vector fighters to intercept them. For nearly two decades the AEW.3 was the Royal Navy&rsquo;s carrier-borne early-warning capability &mdash; an unglamorous but genuinely vital job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">08<\/span><span class=\"gt\">1978, HMS Ark Royal and the AEW gap that mattered in the Falklands<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Gannet AEW.3 was tied to Britain&rsquo;s large fleet carriers, and when the last of them, HMS Ark Royal, was decommissioned in 1978, the AEW.3 retired with her. The Royal Navy was left with no carrier-borne fixed-wing early-warning aircraft at all &mdash; a capability quietly lost as the fleet moved to smaller carriers operating Sea Harriers and helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences became tragically clear in the 1982 Falklands War. Without airborne radar cover, the British task force could not reliably detect low-level Argentine air attacks in time, and several ships were hit and sunk. The Navy responded by rushing early-warning radars onto Sea King helicopters as a stopgap. The Gannet AEW.3&rsquo;s retirement, and the gap it left, is one of the most-cited lessons of the campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">09<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The COD.4 and other Gannet variants<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>Beyond the anti-submarine and early-warning versions, the Gannet was adapted to other carrier tasks. The COD.4 &mdash; carrier onboard delivery &mdash; was a transport conversion used to ferry passengers, mail and urgent spare parts out to carriers at sea, a mundane but essential service. Electronic-countermeasures versions such as the ECM.6 supported the fleet&rsquo;s electronic-warfare needs.<\/p>\n<p>There were also dual-control trainer versions, the T.2 and T.5, used to convert aircrew onto the type. This spread of variants &mdash; from submarine-hunter to radar picket to carrier van to trainer &mdash; shows how thoroughly the Gannet&rsquo;s roomy, practical airframe was worked into the fabric of Fleet Air Arm carrier operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Design &amp; Engineering<\/p>\n<h2>How the Gannet was built: endurance, folding wings and a double engine<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">Every feature of the Gannet followed from a single demand &mdash; to carry out the whole anti-submarine mission from a carrier deck, staying airborne as long as possible &mdash; and its ingenious powerplant was the key to it all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"eng\">\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">01<\/div>\n<h3>A double turboprop<\/h3>\n<p>The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba: two coupled turboprops driving contra-rotating propellers, with either half able to run alone &mdash; full power for takeoff, one engine for economical loiter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">02<\/div>\n<h3>Built for the deck<\/h3>\n<p>A double-folding wing to save hangar space, a sturdy undercarriage and arrester hook, an internal weapons bay, and three crew in a deep fuselage &mdash; a true carrier aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">03<\/div>\n<h3>Sensors and radar<\/h3>\n<p>A retractable search radar and sonobuoys for the anti-submarine role; and, on the AEW.3, a big underslung radome housing the AN\/APS-20 early-warning radar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Specifications<\/p>\n<h2>Fairey Gannet specifications: dimensions, performance and cost<\/h2>\n<div class=\"spectbls\">\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Dimensions &amp; powerplant<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Type<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">Carrier-borne anti-submarine aircraft; later airborne-early-warning radar picket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Crew<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">3 (pilot and two observers) &mdash; AS variants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Length<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~13 m (43 ft) &mdash; AS.1, approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Wingspan<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~16.6 m (54 ft 4 in) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Height<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~4.2 m (13 ft 8 in) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Empty weight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~6,800 kg (~15,000 lb) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Max takeoff weight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~10,000 kg (~22,000 lb) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Engine<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">1 &times; Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba (2 coupled turboprops) driving contra-rotating propellers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Power<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~2,950&ndash;3,875 shp depending on mark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Armament \/ sensors<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">Internal bay: homing torpedoes, depth charges; underwing rockets; search radar, sonobuoys (AS). AEW.3: AN\/APS-20 radar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Performance &amp; programme<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Max speed<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~500 km\/h (~310 mph) &mdash; est.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Range<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~1,100 km (~660 nmi) &mdash; est.; extended on one engine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Service ceiling<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~7,600 m (~25,000 ft) &mdash; est.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">First flight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">19 September 1949<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Introduced<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">1955 (Fleet Air Arm, AS.1)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Retired<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">1978 (RN AEW.3); earlier for ASW and export operators<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Number built<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~350 (all variants)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Main variants<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">AS.1, AS.4, T.2, T.5, AEW.3, COD.4, ECM.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Operators<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">UK (Royal Navy), Australia (RAN), West Germany (Bundesmarine), Indonesia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Unit cost<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">not reliably recorded (Cold War procurement)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Cost per flight hour<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">not reliably recorded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Programme cost<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">not reliably recorded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">10<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Gannet&rsquo;s exports: Australia, West Germany and Indonesia<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>Though designed for the Royal Navy, the Gannet found overseas customers. The Royal Australian Navy operated Gannets in the anti-submarine role, flying them from its aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne through the late 1950s and 1960s. The West German Bundesmarine used land-based Gannets for maritime patrol over the Baltic and North Sea, and the Indonesian Navy also operated the type.<\/p>\n<p>These export sales spread the Gannet&rsquo;s distinctive shape and its clever Double Mamba engine well beyond Britain. Each operator used the aircraft for the same essential purpose &mdash; watching the sea and hunting submarines &mdash; and the Gannet&rsquo;s presence in Australian, German and Indonesian service is a measure of how well it filled a role that many maritime nations needed filled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">11<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Fairey Gannet&rsquo;s operating costs: what the records show<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>As with most Cold War military aircraft, there is no single reliable, transparent public figure for the Gannet&rsquo;s unit cost, cost per flight hour or total programme cost. It was procured in modest numbers over several years, in a range of variants, through government contracts rather than at a published list price, and consistent lifetime cost data for the type is not available. Any single figure quoted for it should be treated with caution.<\/p>\n<p>What can be said is that the Gannet&rsquo;s whole design philosophy &mdash; the one-engine loiter of the Double Mamba above all &mdash; was aimed at efficiency and endurance, getting the most patrol time from each hour of flying. Rather than invent numbers, we list the cost fields here as &ldquo;not reliably recorded.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">12<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Why helicopters took over the anti-submarine role<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Gannet was an excellent fixed-wing submarine-hunter, but by the early 1960s the anti-submarine mission was shifting to helicopters, and for good reasons. A helicopter can hover motionless over a patch of sea and lower a &ldquo;dipping&rdquo; sonar directly into the water to listen for a submarine &mdash; something no fixed-wing aircraft can do. It can also operate from small escort ships, not just large carriers, spreading anti-submarine cover across the whole fleet.<\/p>\n<p>As helicopters like the Westland Whirlwind and Wessex matured, they took over the close-in anti-submarine role from the Gannet. This freed the Gannet airframe for its second life as the AEW.3 radar picket &mdash; a job the helicopters of the day could not do &mdash; and so the aircraft&rsquo;s career was extended rather than ended by the change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">13<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Surviving Gannets: a much-loved aircraft preserved<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Gannet is a great favourite among aviation enthusiasts &mdash; distinctive, characterful and full of clever engineering &mdash; and thanks to that affection a good number survive. Museum examples are preserved in Britain, in Australia, in Germany and elsewhere, spanning the anti-submarine and airborne-early-warning versions, and for a number of years a few Gannets were even kept in flying condition on the airshow circuit.<\/p>\n<p>These survivors keep alive the memory of one of the Cold War&rsquo;s most ingenious carrier aircraft: the double engine that could run on half its power, the wings that folded twice, and the big-eyed AEW.3 that watched the horizon for the fleet. For an aircraft that never sought glamour, the Gannet has earned a devoted following.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Timeline<\/p>\n<h2>The Fairey Gannet through the years<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1945<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The requirement<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Admiralty issues Specification GR.17\/45 for a carrier aircraft to search for and attack submarines in one airframe &mdash; the origin of the Gannet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1949<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>First flight<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Fairey Type 17 prototype flies on 19 September 1949, powered by the novel Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba turboprop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1955<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Enters Fleet Air Arm service<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Gannet AS.1 enters Royal Navy service as a carrier-borne anti-submarine aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">late 1950s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Exports and the AS.4<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The improved AS.4 appears, and the Gannet is exported to Australia, West Germany and Indonesia for maritime patrol and anti-submarine work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1960<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The AEW.3 enters service<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The airborne-early-warning Gannet AEW.3, carrying the AN\/APS-20 radar in an underslung radome, becomes the Royal Navy&rsquo;s carrier radar picket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">early 1960s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Helicopters take the ASW role<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Anti-submarine duties pass to dipping-sonar helicopters; the fixed-wing Gannet&rsquo;s hunting career winds down, but the AEW.3 flies on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1960s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>COD and other variants<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The COD.4 carrier-delivery version and electronic-countermeasures and trainer variants extend the Gannet&rsquo;s range of fleet duties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1967<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Australia retires its Gannets<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Australian Navy withdraws its Gannets as HMAS Melbourne&rsquo;s air group is modernised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1978<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Ark Royal decommissioned<\/b><\/p>\n<p>HMS Ark Royal is retired and the Gannet AEW.3 goes with her, leaving the Royal Navy without carrier fixed-wing early warning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1982<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The gap felt in the Falklands<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lacking airborne early warning, British task-force ships are caught by low-level air attacks; the AEW gap becomes a hard-learned lesson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Stories &amp; Eyewitnesses<\/p>\n<h2>The Fairey Gannet in stories: the moments that defined it<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">A double engine that ran on half its power, wings that folded twice, a submarine-hunter turned radar picket, and a retirement whose gap was felt in a distant war &mdash; the Gannet&rsquo;s history told through the moments that stuck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"carwrap\">\n<div><button class=\"carbtn\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.parentElement.querySelector('.track').scrollBy({left:-712,behavior:'smooth'})\">&lsaquo;<\/button><button class=\"carbtn\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.parentElement.querySelector('.track').scrollBy({left:712,behavior:'smooth'})\">&rsaquo;<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"track\">\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Born of the U-boat War<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A hunter by design<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The Gannet was built to find and kill submarines from a carrier.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Gannet came straight out of the Second World War at sea, when U-boats nearly severed Britain&rsquo;s supply lines. In 1945 the Admiralty called for a single carrier aircraft that could both search for a submarine and attack it.<\/p>\n<p>Fairey&rsquo;s answer first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1955 as one of the world&rsquo;s first purpose-built turboprop carrier sub-hunters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Double Mamba<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Two engines in one<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The Gannet&rsquo;s powerplant was really two coupled turboprops.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba was two Mamba turboprops mounted side by side and geared to drive two contra-rotating propellers &mdash; a single power unit made of two independent halves.<\/p>\n<p>Both together gave power for takeoff; either alone could keep the aircraft flying, a vital margin over the open sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Half an Engine<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Loitering on one Mamba<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The Gannet could shut down one engine and cruise for hours.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Once on patrol, the Gannet&rsquo;s crew could shut down one turbine and feather its propeller, cruising economically on a single Mamba and stretching the aircraft&rsquo;s endurance far beyond a conventional design.<\/p>\n<p>For an anti-submarine aircraft, whose value lay in loiter time, it was a genuinely brilliant trick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Contra-Props<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Cancelling the torque<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Two propellers turning opposite ways tamed the power.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Gannet&rsquo;s two propellers turned in opposite directions on concentric shafts, absorbing the Double Mamba&rsquo;s power while keeping the diameter small enough for carrier use.<\/p>\n<p>By cancelling each other&rsquo;s torque, they made the portly aircraft docile to fly &mdash; exactly what carrier deck landings demanded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Wings That Fold Twice<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Shrinking for the hangar<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The Gannet used a distinctive double-folding wing.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>To fit below deck, each of the Gannet&rsquo;s wings folded not once but twice, shrinking its span dramatically and giving the folded aircraft an ungainly, insect-like look.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the details that made the Gannet instantly recognisable &mdash; and much loved by the enthusiasts who follow it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Sub-Hunter<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Radar, sonobuoys and torpedoes<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The AS Gannet carried the full anti-submarine kit.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The anti-submarine Gannet carried a retractable search radar, sonobuoys to listen for submerged boats, and homing torpedoes and depth charges in an internal bay &mdash; with two observers behind the pilot to work it all.<\/p>\n<p>It flew from Britain&rsquo;s carriers hunting the growing Soviet submarine fleet through the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Eye of the Fleet<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The AEW.3 radar picket<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">A big radome turned the Gannet into an airborne radar.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Fitted with the American AN\/APS-20 radar in a large underslung radome, the Gannet AEW.3 became the Royal Navy&rsquo;s carrier-borne early-warning aircraft from 1960, orbiting ahead of the fleet to see threats over the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>It was an unglamorous but vital job the Gannet held for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">1978<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Retired with Ark Royal<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The AEW.3 left service when the last big carrier did.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Gannet AEW.3 was tied to Britain&rsquo;s large carriers, and when HMS Ark Royal was decommissioned in 1978 the aircraft retired with her.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Navy was left with no carrier-borne fixed-wing early-warning aircraft at all &mdash; a capability quietly lost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Falklands Gap<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A lesson learned hard<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The missing AEW cover mattered in 1982.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>In the 1982 Falklands War the task force, lacking airborne early warning, could not reliably detect low-level Argentine air attacks; several ships were hit and sunk.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy rushed radars onto Sea King helicopters as a stopgap &mdash; a direct consequence of the Gannet&rsquo;s retirement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Carrier Van<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The COD.4 delivery Gannet<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">One Gannet version ferried stores out to the carriers.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The COD.4 &mdash; carrier onboard delivery &mdash; was a transport conversion that flew passengers, mail and urgent spares out to carriers at sea, a mundane but essential service.<\/p>\n<p>It was one more job squeezed from the Gannet&rsquo;s roomy, practical airframe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Flown Abroad<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Australia, Germany, Indonesia<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The Gannet served three foreign navies.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Royal Australian Navy flew Gannets from HMAS Melbourne, the West German Bundesmarine used them over the Baltic and North Sea, and the Indonesian Navy operated them too.<\/p>\n<p>For a specialised British carrier aircraft, it found a respectable overseas career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Survivors<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A much-loved preserved aircraft<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Many Gannets survive, some once kept flying.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Distinctive and full of character, the Gannet is a favourite with enthusiasts, and a good number survive in museums in Britain, Australia, Germany and beyond &mdash; some kept in flying condition for years.<\/p>\n<p>They preserve the memory of one of the Cold War&rsquo;s cleverest carrier aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Photo Gallery<\/p>\n<h2>The Fairey Gannet in photographs<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">Royal Navy, US Navy and museum photographs of the Gannet and its variants, each credited to its source and licence. Click any photo to enlarge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\" id=\"gannet-gallery\">\n<figure class=\"gfig tall\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-aew3-hms-ark-royal-1978.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Fairey Gannet AEW.3 on the deck of HMS Ark Royal during exercise Northern Wedding, 1 September 1978. Photo: tormentor4555 \/ Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain Mark).\"><img data-opt-id=1313650700  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1367\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-aew3-hms-ark-royal-1978.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201213%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221213%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221213%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fairey Gannet AEW.3 on the deck of HMS Ark Royal, 1978. Photo: via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain Mark).\"><figcaption>A Fairey Gannet AEW.3 airborne-early-warning aircraft on the deck of HMS Ark Royal during exercise Northern Wedding, 1 September 1978 &mdash; the year Ark Royal retired and the Royal Navy lost its fixed-wing carrier early-warning cover. Photo: tormentor4555 \/ Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain Mark).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-as4-anti-submarine-1956.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Fairey Gannet AS.4 anti-submarine aircraft, 1956. Photo: RuthAS \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).\"><img data-opt-id=1522263382  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1024\/h:649\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-as4-anti-submarine-1956.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201024%20649%22%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22649%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22649%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fairey Gannet AS.4 anti-submarine aircraft, 1956. Photo: RuthAS \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).\"><figcaption>A Fairey Gannet AS.4 anti-submarine aircraft, 1956 &mdash; the Gannet in its original carrier-borne submarine-hunting role. Photo: RuthAS \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/armstrong-siddeley-double-mamba-gannet-engine.jpg\" data-cap=\"The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba engine of the Fairey Gannet. Photo: Nimbus227 \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain.\"><img data-opt-id=1312381983  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1440\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/armstrong-siddeley-double-mamba-gannet-engine.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201152%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221152%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221152%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba turboprop engine. Photo: Nimbus227 \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain.\"><figcaption>The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba &mdash; two coupled turboprops driving the Gannet&rsquo;s contra-rotating propellers, with either half able to run on its own for economical loiter on patrol. Photo: Nimbus227 \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig wide\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-aew3-uss-randolph-1966.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Royal Navy Fairey Gannet AEW.3 aboard USS Randolph, 1966. Photo: US Navy, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.\"><img data-opt-id=292692363  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-aew3-uss-randolph-1966.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Royal Navy Fairey Gannet AEW.3 aboard USS Randolph, 1966. Photo: US Navy, public domain.\"><figcaption>A Royal Navy Fairey Gannet AEW.3 aboard the US carrier USS Randolph during a NATO exercise in 1966 &mdash; the radar-picket Gannet with its big underslung radome. Photo: US Navy, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-aew3-in-flight-radome.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Fairey Gannet AEW.3 in flight, showing its underslung radar radome. Photo: Mike Freer \/ Touchdown-aviation, via Wikimedia Commons (GFDL 1.2).\"><img data-opt-id=996077089  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-aew3-in-flight-radome.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fairey Gannet AEW.3 in flight showing its radome. Photo: Mike Freer \/ Touchdown-aviation, via Wikimedia Commons (GFDL 1.2).\"><figcaption>A Fairey Gannet AEW.3 in flight, showing the large underslung radome that housed its early-warning radar. Photo: Mike Freer \/ Touchdown-aviation, via Wikimedia Commons (GFDL 1.2).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-preserved-gatow-museum.jpg\" data-cap=\"A preserved Fairey Gannet at the Luftwaffenmuseum Berlin-Gatow. Photo: Ad Meskens \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).\"><img data-opt-id=2022183858  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1527\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-preserved-gatow-museum.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201086%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221086%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221086%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Preserved Fairey Gannet at the Luftwaffenmuseum Berlin-Gatow. Photo: Ad Meskens \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).\"><figcaption>A preserved Fairey Gannet at the Luftwaffenmuseum der Bundeswehr, Berlin-Gatow &mdash; a reminder of the type&rsquo;s German Navy service. Photo: Ad Meskens \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-aew3-folded-wings-carrier.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Fairey Gannet AEW.3 with wings folded for carrier stowage. Photo: US Navy, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.\"><img data-opt-id=463434799  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-aew3-folded-wings-carrier.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fairey Gannet AEW.3 with wings folded. Photo: US Navy, public domain.\"><figcaption>A Fairey Gannet AEW.3 with its wings folded for carrier stowage &mdash; the Gannet used a distinctive double-fold wing to save space below decks. Photo: US Navy, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-t5-trainer-1957.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Fairey Gannet T.5 dual-control trainer, 1957. Photo: RuthAS \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).\"><img data-opt-id=394830012  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fairey-gannet-t5-trainer-1957.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fairey Gannet T.5 dual-control trainer, 1957. Photo: RuthAS \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).\"><figcaption>A Fairey Gannet T.5 dual-control trainer, 1957 &mdash; used to train Gannet aircrew. Photo: RuthAS \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gannet-lb\" id=\"gannet-lightbox\"><button class=\"gannet-lb-close\">&times;<\/button><button class=\"gannet-lb-prev\">&lsaquo;<\/button><button class=\"gannet-lb-next\">&rsaquo;<\/button><img alt=\"Fairey Gannet enlarged photo\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"gannet-lb-cap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">On Film<\/p>\n<h2>The Fairey Gannet on video: the fleet&rsquo;s submarine-hunter<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">A documentary on the Gannet &mdash; its ingenious Double Mamba engine, its carrier anti-submarine mission and its later career as the Royal Navy&rsquo;s airborne-early-warning radar picket.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vid\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EKZ7cdbsyYQ\" title=\"Fairey Gannet: Anti-Submarine Aircraft (DroneScapes documentary)\" loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"vcap\">&ldquo;Anti-Submarine Aircraft | Fairey Gannet Search And Strike&rdquo; by DroneScapes (approx. 40,000 views at time of writing; running time ~45 minutes) &mdash; a dedicated documentary on the Gannet&rsquo;s design, engine and service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/d3\/7.8.5\/d3.min.js\"><\/script> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/topojson\/3.0.2\/topojson.min.js\"><\/script> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jsdelivr.net\/npm\/d3-geo-projection@4\/dist\/d3-geo-projection.min.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Operations Overview<\/p>\n<h2>Where the Fairey Gannet flew: an operator map<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">Designed and built in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy, and exported to Australia, West Germany and Indonesia. Toggle the categories; hover or tap a country for detail. Figures are approximate and hedged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"maphold\">\n<div id=\"gannet-map-widget\">\n<div id=\"gannet-map-container\" style=\"width:100%;position:relative\"><svg id=\"gannet-map-svg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\"><\/svg><\/p>\n<div id=\"gannet-tooltip\" style=\"position:fixed;background:#1a1a2e;color:#fff;padding:10px 16px;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.3px;pointer-events:auto;opacity:0;transition:opacity .15s;z-index:100000;max-width:360px;line-height:1.5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"gannet-controls\" style=\"display:flex;gap:8px;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:flex-start;margin-top:12px\"><button class=\"gannet-toggle active\" data-cat=\"origin\" data-full=\"Design &amp; Manufacture (UK)\" data-short=\"Origin\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"gannet-label\">Design &amp; Manufacture<\/span><span class=\"gannet-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><button class=\"gannet-toggle active\" data-cat=\"raf\" data-full=\"Commonwealth Operator (Australia)\" data-short=\"Commonwealth\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #6B8E23;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:linear-gradient(135deg,#4A6741 25%,#6B8E23 25%,#6B8E23 50%,#556B2F 50%,#556B2F 75%,#8B9D77 75%);background-size:8px 8px\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"gannet-label\">Commonwealth<\/span><span class=\"gannet-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><button class=\"gannet-toggle active\" data-cat=\"exp\" data-full=\"Export Operators\" data-short=\"Export\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #555;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:#555\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"gannet-label\">Export Operators<\/span><span class=\"gannet-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><button class=\"gannet-toggle active\" data-cat=\"surv\" data-full=\"Surviving Airframes on Display\" data-short=\"Survivors\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #C0C0C0;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:#C0C0C0\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"gannet-label\">Surviving Airframes<\/span><span class=\"gannet-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<div id=\"gannet-count\" style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;color:#666;margin-top:12px;line-height:1.7;width:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"vcap\" style=\"margin-top:14px\">Categories: <b style=\"color:#5C91FF\">Design &amp; Manufacture<\/b> (United Kingdom) &middot; <b>Commonwealth Operator<\/b> (Australia) &middot; <b>Export Operators<\/b> (Germany, Indonesia) &middot; <b>Surviving Airframes<\/b> (preserved in the UK, Australia and Germany). Operator list is approximate and hedged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Service Record<\/p>\n<h2>The Gannet&rsquo;s record: two roles, one clever airframe<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">The Gannet&rsquo;s contribution was measured in decades of carrier service, a genuinely ingenious engine, and a capability whose loss became a hard lesson.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rec\">\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>2<\/b><span>Roles &mdash; anti-submarine, then airborne early warning<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>1+1<\/b><span>Two coupled turboprops &mdash; loiter on one<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>4<\/b><span>Operators &mdash; UK, Australia, West Germany, Indonesia<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>~350<\/b><span>Built across all variants<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\" id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n<h2>Fairey Gannet: your questions answered<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open>\n<summary>Can I fly in a Fairey Gannet?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>No &mdash; there is no bookable Gannet flight experience, and MiGFlug does not offer one. Many Gannets survive in museums, and a few have been kept in flying condition on the airshow circuit over the years, but these are rare, cherished aircraft rather than ride platforms. If what you actually want is the real thing &mdash; strapping into a genuine military aircraft and flying it &mdash; you very much <strong>can<\/strong> do that today in other types. MiGFlug arranges flights in real fighter jets and warbirds around the world. Start here: <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">migflug.com\/flights-prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What was special about the Fairey Gannet&rsquo;s engine?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The Gannet was powered by the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba &mdash; effectively two Mamba turboprop engines mounted side by side and coupled to drive two contra-rotating propellers. The two halves could run independently, so for takeoff and dash both engines drove both propellers, but on patrol the crew could shut one engine down and feather its propeller, cruising economically on a single Mamba to greatly extend the aircraft&rsquo;s endurance &mdash; ideal for long anti-submarine patrols.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What did the Fairey Gannet do?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The Gannet began as a carrier-borne anti-submarine aircraft, carrying search radar, sonobuoys and torpedoes to find and attack submarines from the deck of a Royal Navy carrier. From 1960 a heavily modified version, the AEW.3, took on a completely different role as an airborne-early-warning radar picket, carrying a large radar in an underslung radome to watch for threats far beyond the fleet&rsquo;s own horizon. There were also carrier-delivery, electronic-warfare and trainer versions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What was the Gannet AEW.3, and why did its retirement matter?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The AEW.3 was the airborne-early-warning Gannet, carrying the American AN\/APS-20 radar in a big underslung radome to give the fleet radar cover over the horizon. It served the Royal Navy from 1960 until 1978, when it was retired along with the last large carrier, HMS Ark Royal. That left the Navy with no carrier-borne fixed-wing early warning &mdash; a gap felt sharply in the 1982 Falklands War, when British ships without airborne radar cover were caught by low-level air attacks. The Navy responded by fitting radars to Sea King helicopters as a stopgap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why did the Gannet have contra-rotating propellers?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The contra-rotating propellers &mdash; two sets turning in opposite directions on concentric shafts &mdash; let the Gannet absorb the Double Mamba&rsquo;s considerable power while keeping the propeller diameter small enough for carrier use. They also cancelled out each other&rsquo;s torque, making the aircraft docile and predictable to fly, which was essential for landing on a pitching carrier deck. And because each engine drove one propeller, the arrangement made the one-engine loiter possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Who operated the Fairey Gannet?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The Gannet was designed and built in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy&rsquo;s Fleet Air Arm, its principal operator. It was also exported: the Royal Australian Navy flew Gannets from the carrier HMAS Melbourne, the West German Bundesmarine used them for maritime patrol, and the Indonesian Navy operated the type as well. In all, four nations flew the Gannet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many Gannets were built, and do any survive?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>Around 350 Gannets were built across all variants between the early 1950s and the early 1960s. Because the aircraft is so distinctive and so well loved by enthusiasts, a good number survive today &mdash; museum examples in Britain, Australia, Germany and elsewhere, spanning both the anti-submarine and airborne-early-warning versions, and a few were kept in flying condition for airshows over the years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Was the Fairey Gannet a good aircraft?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>Yes &mdash; it was a genuinely clever and effective carrier aircraft. Its Double Mamba engine, with the ability to loiter on one half, was ideally suited to long anti-submarine patrols, and the airframe was rugged and thoroughly practical for carrier life. When the anti-submarine role passed to helicopters, the same roomy airframe was successfully adapted into the AEW.3 radar picket, extending its career for years. Its main limitation was not the aircraft but the decision to retire the AEW.3 without a replacement &mdash; a gap that proved costly in 1982.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Can I fly in a Fairey Gannet?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No - there is no bookable Gannet flight experience, and MiGFlug does not offer one. 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MiGFlug does not operate Fairey Gannet flights &mdash; no bookable example exists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Related Aircraft<\/p>\n<h2>If the Fairey Gannet interests you, explore these<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fairey-firefly\/\"><span class=\"rk\">WWII &middot; Naval Aircraft<\/span><span class=\"rt\">Fairey Firefly<\/span><span class=\"rd\">Fairey&rsquo;s earlier carrier-borne fighter-reconnaissance aircraft &mdash; a wartime ancestor in the Fleet Air Arm lineage.<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avro-shackleton\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cold War &middot; Maritime Patrol &amp; AEW<\/span><span class=\"rt\">Avro Shackleton<\/span><span class=\"rd\">Britain&rsquo;s land-based maritime patrol aircraft, whose AEW.2 carried the same AN\/APS-20 radar and later filled the AEW gap.<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-sea-vixen\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cold War &middot; Carrier Fighter<\/span><span class=\"rt\">de Havilland Sea Vixen<\/span><span class=\"rd\">The Fleet Air Arm&rsquo;s twin-boom carrier all-weather fighter &mdash; a Gannet contemporary on Britain&rsquo;s Cold War carrier decks.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/p>\n<h2>Where this Fairey Gannet history comes from<\/h2>\n<div class=\"sources\">\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Fleet Air Arm Museum (Yeovilton)<\/b>Records and preserved aircraft covering Royal Navy Gannet anti-submarine and early-warning service.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Royal Navy \/ Fleet Air Arm histories<\/b>Accounts of Gannet squadron operations from Britain&rsquo;s Cold War carriers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Imperial War Museum<\/b>Photographs and reference material on Fleet Air Arm carrier aviation of the period.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Fairey Aviation company histories<\/b>References on the Gannet&rsquo;s design, the Type 17 origins and its variants.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Armstrong Siddeley \/ engine histories<\/b>Material on the Double Mamba turboprop and its contra-rotating propeller drive.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Falklands War studies and official reports<\/b>Analyses of the 1982 campaign and the consequences of the carrier AEW gap.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Royal Australian Navy histories<\/b>Records of RAN Gannet service aboard HMAS Melbourne.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Bundesmarine \/ German naval-aviation histories<\/b>Records of West German Navy Gannet maritime-patrol operations.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Cold War maritime-patrol and ASW studies<\/b>Published accounts of carrier anti-submarine warfare in which the Gannet featured.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Wikimedia Commons<\/b>Source of the public-domain and Creative Commons Gannet photographs used in the gallery, each credited to its author and licence.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>MiGFlug Afterburner magazine<\/b>MiGFlug&rsquo;s own aviation-history features on Cold War and naval aircraft.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Aviation-history reference works<\/b>Standard published references on British naval aircraft and their designations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"foot\">Note on figures: dimensions, performance and production numbers for the Gannet vary between sources and by variant, and are hedged here as approximate. Cost fields are listed as not reliably recorded because trustworthy Cold War procurement cost data is not consistently available. Many Gannets survive in museums in Britain, Australia, Germany and elsewhere, and a small number have been kept airworthy for airshows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"gannet-map-data\" 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