page_title: Fairey Gannet
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Fairey Gannet / Variants
caption_attribution_description: A Royal Navy Fairey Gannet COD.4 (Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers) from the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious (R38) aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bennington (CVS-20). Bennington, with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 59 (CVSG-59), was deployed to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 22 March to 7 October 1965.
context_page_description: The Fairey Gannet is a British carrier-borne aircraft of the post-Second World War era. It was developed for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm by the Fairey Aviation Company. It was a mid-wing monoplane with a tricycle undercarriage and a crew of three, and a double turboprop engine driving two contra-rotating propellers.
  The Gannet was originally developed to meet the FAA's dual-role anti-submarine warfare and strike requirement. It was later adapted for operations as an electronic countermeasures and carrier onboard delivery aircraft. The Gannet AEW.3 was a variant of the aircraft developed as a carrier-based airborne early warning platform.
caption: A Gannet COD.4 from HMS Victorious (R38), in 1965.
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