Photo via Coen van den Heuvel

Permit to Fly expired in 1996. Reported in store in Winchester October 2015.

Cancelled as permanently withdrawn from use in April 1994

With small titles below the windows. While on a goodwill tour through Asia this An-2 crashed on 21 September 1991 during an emergency landing on the Indonesian island of Lombok, after its engine failed. All seven members of its crew survived the crash, though four suffered serious burns. It caught fire and exploded after crash-landing in a narrow valley near Bayan, Lombok. It had been travelling from Berlin to Sydney to mark the 100 years since Otto Lilienthal from Germany introduced the concept of wings for manned flight in 1891, which is generally considered as the beginning of human flight.

Delivered in May 1944 to RAF, NH238 did not see active service. It flew in the East Indies with 322 Squadron of the Royal NetherlandsAir Force before transfered to the Belgian Air Force. It was owned by the Confederate Air Force before being sold to Doug Arnold's War birds of Great Britain. Reported now stored at North Weald, Essex, UK.

This aircraft crashed in the Waddenzee, Netherlands on September 25th, 1996 with the loss of 32 lives.

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