This Firefly was manufactured in 1945 by General Aircraft Limited in Hanworth, Middlesex, England. It was accepted by the RCN in November 1946. In the early 1990s, a Canadian military attaché spotted the Firefly, along with a few others, in open storage on an air base at Asmara, Eritrea. This Firefly arrived at Rockcliffe airport in October 1993.
Fairey Firefly FR.1
The Firefly was one of the most successful British carrier based aircraft designs of the World War 2. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) used the Firefly in addition to the Supermarine Seafire and Hawker Sea Fury onboard its carriers HMCS Warrior and HMCS Magnificent during the early post war period.