John Fairey

John Stephen Fairey FRAeS (21 April 1935 – 8 July 2009) was an English aviator.

Early life Fairey was the second son of Sir Charles Richard Fairey, founder of the Fairey Aviation Company. He was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Career Fairey gained his pilot licence in Canada, flying seaplanes. flying Douglas DC-3, Vickers Viscount and BAC One-Eleven aeroplanes. He later sold this aircraft and commissioned the construction of a Fairey Flycatcher, which is now on show at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. when the Percival Provost T1 he was piloting crashed in a field near Bishop Norton in Lincolnshire. The aircraft, which had been on display at RAF Waddington, was based at Brimpton Airfield in Berkshire. He is survived by his daughter, his three sons predeceased him. He also had a second wife, Beverley, née Halford.