| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | VR137 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Westland Wyvern |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Westland Wyvern |
| Aircraft Version: | Westland Wyvern TF1 |
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| Operator Titles: | UK - Navy |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | YeoviltonMap |
| Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: EGDY IATA: YEO Local: - Other: - |
| Collection: | Fleet Air Arm Museum |
| Photo Date: | 7 September 1973 |
| Photo by: | Richard Vandervord |
| Photo ID: | 2063 |
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Although the Wyvern was designed as a turboprop-powered carrier-based strike aircraft, VR137 was built in 1947 at Yeovil as the seventh and last preproduction TF.Mk.1. It was the sole one fitted with a 2,690 hp Rolls-Royce Eagle 22 24-cylinder sleeve valve flat-H piston engine, but was never flown. Of the 127 built, this is the only survivor This photo is copyright © Richard Vandervord, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 30 July 2017, and has since been viewed 936 times. |