TIPSY M TRAINER c/n 01 OO-POM - F-0222 - (G-AKSX) - G-6-1

1937 -Constructed by Avions Fairey SA
-Fitted with a 132hp de Havilland Gipsy engine
1938 -Left the factory
03/39 -Registered as OO-POM (CofR 466) to Ernest O.Tips - Gosselies
13/05/39-Flown to England (Pilot Albert Eyskens)
-Demonstration-flights
27/06/39-Flown back to Gosselies (pilot Albert Eyskens)
-Dismantled for examination
-Shipped to England
-Reassembled and registered as F-0222
31/10/39-Test-flight (pilot F.H. Dixon)
-Flown to Boscombe Down for certification trials
-Used for communication flight
1941 -Damaged
-Stored at Hamble
1946 -Shipped back to Gosselies
-Converted to Fairey Primer
-Flown to White Waltham (TT 100hrs)
24/02/48-Reservation made for G-AKSX by Fairey Aviation Co.Ltd.
04/48 -Registered as G-6-1 to Fairey Aviation Co.Ltd.
-Dismantled at Boscombe Down
-Transported to Hayes
-Used as a pattern for the Fairey Primer production
31/03/50-Reservation cancelled