Nash & Thompson

History

Parnall Aircraft

Products

• FN-1 – "lobster back" partially enclosed turret for Hawker Demon
• FN-4A – four-gun rear turret
• FN-5 – two-gun nose turret on Avro Manchester, Short Stirling and Vickers Wellington
• FN-5A – two-gun nose turret on Avro Lancaster
• FN-7 – two-gun dorsal turret on Blackburn Botha, Manchester, Short Sunderland, Stirling
• FN-9 – two-gun retractable "dustbin" ventral turret on Wellington, rarely fitted.
• FN-10 – two-gun tail turret on early-model Wellington and Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
• FN-11 – two-gun retractable nose turret in Sunderland
• FN-13 – four-gun tail turret in Sunderland
• FN-16 – single Vickers 'K' gun front turret in Whitley
• FN-17 – two-gun retractable "dustbin" ventral turret on Whitley, rarely used
• FN-20 – four-gun tail turret on Lancaster, Wellington, Stirling and Whitley
• FN-21A – two-gun retractable "dustbin" ventral turret on Manchester, rarely used
• FN-25 – two-gun retractable "dustbin" ventral turret for the Wellington I based on the FN-17
• FN-50 – two-gun dorsal turret on Lancaster, late-model Stirling
• FN-51 – two-gun dorsal turret on early-model Handley Page Halifax
• FN-54 – two-gun rearward firing chin turret on Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV and Bristol Beaufort
• FN-64 – two-gun ventral turret on Lancaster with periscopic sight, rarely fitted
• FN-77 – retractable ventral turret fitted with Leigh Light for the Wellington and Warwick based on the FN-25
• FN-82 – two-gun tail turret on late-model Lancaster
• FN-120 – four-gun tail turret; refinement of the FN-20 weighing less; used on late-model Lancaster and Wellington
• FN-121 – four-gun tail turret on late-model Lancaster fitted with Village Inn gun-laying radar; also used without AGLR on Wellington and Warwick
• FN-150 – an improved two-gun dorsal turret, based on the FN-50, and fitted to many Lancasters

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