Photo: Albert Storti.

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Landing at Eggebek with a grey nose radome mounted. These grey radomes have been used for a few years on trail but at the end the white radomes returned. Slide is part of my private collection (Photographer unknown).

One of three surviving S-39 amphibians of the 21 built in the early 1930s, NC803W flown by the Civil Air Patrol during WW2 on U-boat spotting missions. It was recovered from Alaska in 1963 as a crashed wreck, with restoration at NEAM completed in 1996

Built as a JRF-5 for the USN in 1942, this Goose was registered N1523V in 1955. In 1958/59 it was converted by Kaman to become the only K-16 tilt-wing experimental aircraft with YT58 turboprops for VTOL/STOL development work. Ground runs were carried out here at Windsor Locks in 1960 and in 1962 it was flown aboard a C-133 to Moffett Field for wind-tunnel tests. After return it was never flown. Given to the museum in 1965, by 1975 it had been restored and had its huge props fitted after 2000, but these have been removed again. The C-124 and C-133 behind were both destroyed in the 1979 tornado.

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Photographer Erio Domestici

Photographer Gianni Siccardi