- Views: 999
- Location: Oslo - Gardermoen (OSL / ENGM) , Norway August 4, 2019
Restored and fin and rudder of 0880119 in the RLM70/71/65 scheme. The code 'U4' and the Balkenkreuz are almost as found during recovery in August 2004.
- Air Force: Private
- Aircraft: Lockheed C-60A Lodestar
- Registration: G-AGIH / 42-55983 (cn 18-2444)
- Views: 938
- Location: Oslo - Gardermoen (OSL / ENGM) , Norway August 4, 2019
This Lodestar, built as C-60A-5-LO for the USAAF (serial 42-55983), is finished in a wartime BOAC c/s as used on the 'Stockholm Route', from Stockholm/Bromma and RAF Leuchars in Scotland.
- Views: 950
- Location: Oslo - Gardermoen (OSL / ENGM) , Norway August 4, 2019
This emblem of 4./KGrzbV 103, showing a map of Great Britain being sliced by a dagger, was used only for about one month during the Norwegian campaign in April-May 1940.
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- Location: Oslo - Gardermoen (OSL / ENGM) , Norway August 4, 2019
On 13 April, 1940, ‘CA+JY’ of 4./KGrzbV 103 landed on the ice of Hartvikvatnet, near Narvik, northern Norway. With the arrival of spring, the ice melted and the Ju 52 sank to the bottom of the lake. The aircraft was recovered in 1983.
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- Location: Oslo - Gardermoen (OSL / ENGM) , Norway August 4, 2019
On 15 April, 1940, ‘U4+TK’ took part in KG30’s first mission from the frozen Jonsvatnet to attack installations at Namsos airfield. By the end of that month, the probably unserviceable Ju 88 sank to the bottom of the lake.
- Air Force: UK - Air Force
- Aircraft: Supermarine 361 Spitfire LF.IXe
- Registration: MH350 / FN-T (cn CBAF.IX490) Aircraft Info
- Views: 908
- Location: Bodo (BOO / ENBO) , Norway August 9, 2019
MH350 entered service with 485 (NZ) Squadron in August 1943 as 'OU-V' and became the personal a/c of P/O Johnnie Houlton until June 1944. The Spit transferred to 332 Squadron as 'AH-V' in the spring of 1945. After the war MH350 served with 331 Skvadron.
- Views: 827
- Location: Oslo - Gardermoen (OSL / ENGM) , Norway August 4, 2019
P42408 is ex RAF VT833 and entered Norwegian service with C Flight of 331 Skvadron, later renamed 336 Svadron. The Spitfire is a full-scale model (FSM) of MA755, an F.IXc of the Norwegian 331 Squadron, RAF, at North Weald in March 1943.
- Air Force: Germany - Air Force
- Aircraft: Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-3
- Registration: 0132219 / SCHWARZE 3 (cn 0132219)
- Views: 804
- Location: Bodo (BOO / ENBO) , Norway August 9, 2019
The emblem of 14. (Jabo)/JG 5 is on both sides of the cowling. The Jabostaffel was activated at the JG 5 base at Petsamo, Northern Finland, in February 1943.
- Air Force: Germany - Air Force
- Aircraft: Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-3
- Registration: 0132219 / SCHWARZE 3 (cn 0132219)
- Views: 864
- Location: Bodo (BOO / ENBO) , Norway August 9, 2019
The Fw 190s of 14.(J), the Jabostaffel of JG 5 were modified for the fighter-bomber role by the fitting of the centerline ETC-501 bomb rack and the removal of the outboard MG FF cannon.
- Air Force: Germany - Air Force
- Aircraft: Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-3
- Registration: 0132219 / SCHWARZE 3 (cn 0132219)
- Views: 985
- Location: Bodo (BOO / ENBO) , Norway August 9, 2019
On 5 October 1943, two Fw 190s of 14.(J)/JG 5, based at Petsamo, ran out of fuel in bad weather. Uffz Hans-Günther Kleemann parachuted to safety, but his aircraft, ‘Schwarze 3’ crashed some 40 kilometres west of Kongsfjord. The wreck was found in 198
- Views: 1374
- Location: Bodo (BOO / ENBO) , Norway August 9, 2019
On 13 April, 1942, after attacking Sovjet merchant vessels north of Hammerfest, ‘4D+AM’ of 4./KG 30, ran out of fuel. The crew abandoned the aircraft. 'AM' came down on high ground near Garddevarre, between Hammerfest and her base at Banak, Lakselv.
- Views: 941
- Location: Bodo (BOO / ENBO) , Norway August 9, 2019
Ju 88 0881478 is on display at Bodø in the condition as found at the time of her recovery in 1988. On the port side of the fuselage the faint letters of a part of the Stammkennzeichen ‘BH+QQ’ can be discerned.
- Air Force: Germany - Air Force
- Aircraft: VFW-Fokker VFW 614
- Registration: 17+02 (cn MG.18/015)
- Views: 711
- Location: Nordholz (- Cuxhaven) (NDZ / ETMN) , Germany May 24, 2019
One of three VFW-614s to serve the Flugbereitschaft of the German Defence Ministry, 17+02 served from 1977 until 1998 from its base at Köln-Wahn. For a short period the aircraft was with Muk Air as OY-RGT. She came to the Aeronauticum in 2003.
- Air Force: Germany - Navy
- Aircraft: Fairey Gannet AS4
- Registration: UA+113 (cn F9395)
- Views: 762
- Location: Nordholz (- Cuxhaven) (NDZ / ETMN) , Germany May 24, 2019
The 16 German Gannets, 1 T.5 and 15 AS.4 aircraft, came from a cancelled batch, originally destined for the Royal Navy. So XG853 became UA+113 and served with the ASM Geschwader at Schleswig and later MFG 3 at Nordholz. Now preserved at the Aeronauticum.
- Air Force: Germany - Navy
- Aircraft: Lockheed F-104G Starfighter
- Registration: 22+98 (cn 7181)
- Views: 813
- Location: Nordholz (- Cuxhaven) (NDZ / ETMN) , Germany May 24, 2019
Bearing some resemblance with the hardened aircraft shelters at her former base at Eggebek, 22+98 is hardly protected against the elements. The F-104G started her service career with the Luftwaffe as KE+481.
- Air Force: East Germany - Air Force
- Aircraft: Sukhoi Su-22M4 Fitter-K
- Registration: 366 (cn 25512) Aircraft Info
- Views: 763
- Location: Nordholz (- Cuxhaven) (NDZ / ETMN) , Germany May 24, 2019
From December 1984, JBG-77 operated the Su-22M-4 and some M-3K two-seaters from Laage. Built in the Sovjet Union, the NVA/LSK aircraft had all been reassembled and test flown at Rothenburg by Sovjet personnel. The other Laage-based M-4 unit was MFG-28.
- Air Force: UK - Navy
- Aircraft: Westland WS-51 Dragonfly HR.5
- Registration: WG719 (cn W/H/50)
- Views: 622
- Location: Weston-super-Mare , UK - England April 28, 2019
The 50th Dragonfly built, WG719 was delivered to 705 Squadron as an HR.3. After conversion to HR.5, WG719 joined 776 Squadron in 1959. In June 1967 the helicopter was stored at RNAY Fleetlands, before coming to Weston-super-Mare in 1989.
- Air Force: UK - Navy
- Aircraft: Sopwith Baby
- Registration: N2078
- Views: 922
- Location: Yeovilton (YEO / EGDY) , UK - England May 1, 2019
On 26 March 1918, N2078, with N2087, attacked a U-boat off Scarborough with 65 lb bombs. A month later, on 23 April, 'The Jabberwock' made a force landing in the North Sea, again off Scarborough. This Baby is a composite of 2 aircraft: 8214 and 8215.
- Air Force: UK - Navy
- Aircraft: De Havilland DH-100 Vampire
- Registration: LZ551/G
- Views: 775
- Location: Yeovilton (YEO / EGDY) , UK - England May 1, 2019
Vampire LZ551/G was first flown on 17 March 1944, later being equipped with an arrester hook to become the prototype for the navalised version. On 3 December 1945, Lt Cdr Eric 'Winkle' Brown wrote history by landing LZ551/G on the deck of HMS Ocean.
- Views: 836
- Location: Yeovilton (YEO / EGDY) , UK - England May 1, 2019
It took the FAA restoration team nearly 5 years to remove the post-war applied layers of paint. KD431 returned on display in her wartime c/s of 768 Squadron in August 2005.
- Views: 820
- Location: Weston-super-Mare , UK - England April 28, 2019
Until October 1962, FR-41 was with the Groupe d'Helicoptères No.2 at Sétif in Algeria, coded 'ARB'. Later the Shawnee went to an ALAT training school at Dax, France. Restoration this rare helicopter started recently at THM.
- Air Force: UK - Royal Aircraft Establishment
- Aircraft: Saunders-Roe P.531-2
- Registration: XP165 (cn S2/8437)
- Views: 680
- Location: Weston-super-Mare , UK - England April 28, 2019
XP165 had been a training airframe at the RAE Farnborough Apprentice School, before being used by Marconi, Basildon, for trials of the 'Hele-Tele' surveillance system. Its remains ended up at Southend Airport in 1975, before coming to THM in 1985.
- Air Force: UK - Royal Aircraft Establishment
- Aircraft: Westland Wessex HAS1
- Registration: XM330 (cn WA11)
- Views: 718
- Location: Weston-super-Mare , UK - England April 28, 2019
Before wearing this raspberry ripple scheme, in the early '70s, XM330 had a dark blue/grey overall c/s, with a white lightning bolt along the fuselage. The RAE Wessex is currently under restoration at THM.
- Air Force: UK - Air Force
- Aircraft: Gloster Meteor F.3
- Registration: EE425
- Views: 743
- Location: Gloucestershire (Gloucester) - Staverton (GLO / EGBJ) , UK - England April 28, 2019
This cockpit section is all that remains of Meteor F.3 EE425, the oldest surviving Meteor to have seen squadron service with the RAF, having served with No. 1, 63, 222 and 266 Squadrons between 1945 and 1948. Seen here in the excellent Jet Age Museum.