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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.

A hypergraph has Property B if its vertices of a hypergraph can be coloured with two colours so that every hypergraph edge meets both colour classes. An $r$-uniform hypergraph with fewer than $2^{r-1}$ edges has Property B, by a fair independent colouring and the union bound. Conversely, for $r\ge 2$, take $N=2r^2$ vertices and independently sample $m=\lceil (N\log 2+1)2^r\rceil$ uniformly random $r$-subsets. In any fixed colouring an edge is monochromatic with probability at least $2^{-r}$: convexity of binomial coefficients reduces to the balanced colouring, and $\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{r^2}{r}\right)/\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{2r^2}{r}\right)\ge 2^{-r-1}$. The union bound over $2^N$ colourings gives a probability at most $2^N{e}^{-m{2}^{-r}}<1$ of any proper colouring. Removing repeated edges leaves a hypergraph without Property B and with $O(r^2{2}^r)$ edges.