Delivered to the Royal Navy as XA459 as Gannet AS4 in 1957. Converted to Gannet ECM6 from 1959 to 1961. Used as ground trainer A2608 at Lee-on-Solent from 1966 then to Culdrose as a ground trainer in 1970. To the Wales Air Museum in 1979. Moved to Gloucester in 1989, Cirencester in 1989, White Waltham in 2015 and the Sollway Museum, Carlisle in 2020.

Built as a Gannet AS.4 and entering service in 1957, XA459 was converted to ECM.6 in 1961 and served 831 NAS at Culdrose until 1966. After use as a ground instructional trainer, it was moved to the museum at Cardiff airport in 1979 and when that collapsed in the late 1980s, passed through a series of private owners, landing up at White Waltham in 2006, appropriate as that is where Fairey built and test-flew Gannets. Acquired in very poor condition in 2020, once again the Solway volunteers have done a brilliant restoration job.

In use with the School of Aircraft Handling, later allocated A2608 and the code SAH7. It was initially preserved by Wales Air Museum at Rhoose, and then stored in rather derelict condition at White Waltham until February 2020 when it was moved to the Solway Aviation Museum for renovation and eventual display.

Aircraft subsequently moved to the Solway Aviation Museum.

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