Fairey Fawn

The Fairey Fawn was a British single-engine light day bomber, designed by F. Duncanson as a replacement for the Airco DH.9A and built to Air Ministry specification 5/21, later revised to 20/23 to add the bomber role. It was a development of the Pintail floatplane powered by a Napier Lion engine, with its fuel tanks carried above the top wing. The first of three prototypes flew on 8 March 1923 and the type entered service with 12 Squadron in March 1924, equipping 11 Squadron and 100 Squadron as well. It had little better performance than the aircraft it replaced and was unpopular, so the Hawker Horsley and the Fairey Fox replaced it by 1926, and it left Auxiliary Air Force service in 1929.