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Although painted to represent a USAAC OA-10 Catalina based in Halesworth, Suffolk in WW2, this is actually an ex Canadian example which served the RCAF as '11005'.
The original 433915 aircraft operated out of Halesworth airfield in the role of air sea rescue during 1945 and on 30th March that year after landing to provide help to of all things another stricken flying boat the aircraft lost use of one engine. With high seas that meant she was stuck just a few miles off the Dutch coast. Whilst bobbing around on the surf on the first night a pair of ME210's strafed the Catalina to such an extent that she was listing and no longer airworthy. Four days later after enduring constant seasickness and regular immersion in freezing sea water the crew were rescued by a launch sent out from Great Yarmouth. A second launch then destroyed and sank the Catalina rather than have her fall into enemy hands.
For the above reasons the preservation society chose to adopt the identity of the sunken sister aircraft. The preserved aircraft is now based at Duxford with Catalina Aircraft Ltd.
Photographed at Boulmer during a walk from Craster to Alnmouth last week.
MH003 London Heathrow-Kuala Lumpur.
Airbus A380-841
L/N 89
First flight May 21st 2012
Delivered new to Malaysia Airlines on November 22nd 2012.
HFF everyone.
This pic was taken in April 2014 and I have come across it whilst looking for a HFF to post.
The gentleman was actually trying to start the Tiger Moth by swinging the prop but it looks as though he is reaching out to the plane coming in to land on the grass airfield at Compton Abbass in Dorset !!
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