The Fairey Primer was a tandem-seat, single-engine basic trainer, a postwar production version of the Tipsy M designed in the 1930s by Ernest Oscar Tips at Fairey's Belgian subsidiary, Avions Fairey. It was a low-wing monoplane of welded steel tube with fabric covering, enclosed dual-control cockpits and manual flaps, powered by a 145 hp de Havilland Gipsy Major or a 155 hp Blackburn Cirrus Major. The single Belgian Tipsy M became the prototype, and Fairey built two production aircraft, the first airworthy in October 1948, out of a planned ten. One was assessed against the de Havilland Chipmunk at Boscombe Down, and the line ended in 1951.
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The Fairey Primer was a production version of the Avions Fairey Tipsy M tandem seat single-engined basic trainer.
Operational history
gained its certificate of airworthiness in October 1948
Specifications
Empty weight: 1,360 lb (617 kg)
Specifications, maximum mass
Gross weight: 1,960 lb (890 kg)
Specifications, top speed
Maximum speed: 134 mph (215 km/h, 116 kn)
Operational history, manufacturer
Fairey had intended to produce a run of ten, but only built two.
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