Westland: Wyvern
From Graces Guide
Wyvern TF1. Exhibit at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
Wyvern TF1. Exhibit at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
Note: This is a sub-section of Westland.
The Westland Wyvern was a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft that served in the 1950s, seeing active service in the 1956 Suez Crisis. Production Wyverns were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers, and could carry aerial torpedoes.
Variants[1]
- W.34 Wyvern
- Six prototypes ordered in August 1944, first aircraft flown 12 December 1946.
- W.34 Wyvern TF.1
- Pre-production aircraft ordered in June 1946, only seven built of 20 contracted.
- W.35 Wyvern TF.2
- The original production version, three prototypes ordered in February 1946 with a production contract for 20 aircraft ordered in September 1947, only nine production aircraft built, further 11 were completed as S.4s.
- W.38 Wyvern T.3
- Two-seat conversion trainer. One prototype VZ739 ordered in September 1948 and first flown in February 1950.
- W.35 Wyvern TF.4
- The definitive version, 50 ordered in October 1948, 13 in December 1950, 13 in January 1951 and a final 11 in February 1951, 98 built (including 11 started as TF.2s). Re-designated S.4
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