OO-POM  Avions Fairey Primer                                    (c/n  F.8455

                                

                                     The Primer was a post-WW II variant of the Tipsy M, designed in Belgium during the 1930s by
                                     Ernest Tips.*  Avions Fairey built Fairey aircraft under license to the Belgian Government, although
                                     Tips designed and built a series of light aircraft locally.    OO-POM, which first flew in 1938 was
                                     taken apart as war began and shipped to the parent company in Hayes, Middlesex.  A production
                                     line of some ten examples was to have built as ab initio trainers although, in the event, only one other
                                     Primer is reputed to have been constructed.  .

                                    *  In the early 1950s Ernest Oscar Tips continued his development of ultra light aircraft and several
                                        Tipsy B, Belfair (enclosed cabin) and Nipper types were produced many of which are still flying.  .  .