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For all sufficiently large $n$, the extremal number of the Fano plane as a three-uniform hypergraph is the displayed count of all triples crossing a balanced bipartition. The plane has no Property B, so this construction avoids it. A stability argument makes near-extremal Fano-free hypergraphs nearly bipartite; vertex deletion obtains high minimum degree. Optimizing the approximate bipartition and applying Fano completion through three matchings then rules out all internal triples. The large-order qualification matters: for $n=5,6$ the complete hypergraph has no Fano copy but exceeds the displayed count.