Registration / Serial: | G-AFCV |
Aircraft Original Type: | Short S-30 Empire |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Short S-30 Empire |
Aircraft Version: | Short S-30 Empire |
C/n (msn): | S.881 |
Aircraft Name: | Caribou |
City / Seaplane Base: | Rochester - Seaplane (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | July 1939 to September 1939 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Photo ID: | 328741Submit Correction |
View count: | 1196 |
At the factory in Rochester, Kent. The hill with St Margaret's Church is much the same today. On the left is the prototype of the enlarged S.26, G-AFCI Golden Hind. Caribou and G-AFCU Cabot, in the background, were equipped as transatlantic mailplanes with aerial refuelling by Harrow tankers after take-off. The two machines were impressed as V3138 and V3137 and destroyed together by German aircraft at Bodø, Norway on 5 May 1940.
Registration / Serial: | G-AFCV |
Aircraft Version: | Short S-30 Empire |
C/n (msn): | S.881 |
City / Seaplane Base: | Rochester - Seaplane (closed)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | July 1939 to September 1939 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Registration / Serial: | G-AFCV |
Aircraft Original Type: | Short S-30 Empire |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Short S-30 Empire |
Aircraft Version: | Short S-30 Empire |
C/n (msn): | S.881 |
Aircraft Name: | Caribou |
City / Seaplane Base: | Rochester - Seaplane (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | July 1939 to September 1939 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Photo ID: | 328741Submit Correction |
View count: | 1196 |
At the factory in Rochester, Kent. The hill with St Margaret's Church is much the same today. On the left is the prototype of the enlarged S.26, G-AFCI Golden Hind. Caribou and G-AFCU Cabot, in the background, were equipped as transatlantic mailplanes with aerial refuelling by Harrow tankers after take-off. The two machines were impressed as V3138 and V3137 and destroyed together by German aircraft at Bodø, Norway on 5 May 1940.
Registration / Serial: | G-AFCV |
Aircraft Version: | Short S-30 Empire |
C/n (msn): | S.881 |
City / Seaplane Base: | Rochester - Seaplane (closed)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | July 1939 to September 1939 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |