Westland Wyvern

Wyvern
Wyvern S.4
General information
TypeCarrier-based strike aircraft
National originUnited Kingdom
ManufacturerWestland Aircraft
Primary userRoyal Navy
Number built127
History
Manufactured1946–1956
Introduction date1953
First flight16 December 1946
Retired1958

The Westland Wyvern is a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft that served in the 1950s, seeing 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.

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