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A Short Sunderland GR Mark V of No. 205 Squadron RAF Detachment, moored off Direction Island, Cocos Islands, about to be refuelled from a petrol tanker embarked on board a Tank Landing Craft Airframe repairs were either effected from the inside or delayed until the aircraft was in a sheltered mooring or beached.
The Short S.16 Scion and Scion II were 1930s British two-engine, cantilever monoplanes built by Short Brothers and (under licence) by Pobjoy Airmotors and Aircraft Ltd. in Rochester, Kent between 1933 and 1937. Altogether 22 Scion/Scion II aircraft were built and they provided useful service to operators working from small airstrips/water ...
The Scion Senior was developed as an enlarged version of the Scion light transport for nine passengers. Unfortunately, the aircraft failed to win orders from internal airline operators, who had already adopted the De Havilland Dragon and Dragon Rapide; instead it proved attractive as a seaplane for survey and river transport purposes overseas, and the first order came from the Irrawaddy ...
Short S.16 Scion/Scion II (1933) Short S.18 Knuckleduster (1933) Short L.17 Scylla (1934) Short S.19 Singapore III (1934) Short S.20 Mercury (1937 Short Mayo Composite) Short S.21 Maia (1937 Short Mayo Composite) Short S.22 Scion Senior (1935) Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat (1936) Short S.25 Sunderland (1937) Short S.25 Sandringham (a post-war ...
Short Scion Senior; Short Scylla; ... Short Solent; Short Stirling; Short Sunderland; Siemens-Schuckert Forssman; Sikorsky Ilya Muromets; Sikorsky Russky Vityaz ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 00:29, 5 February 2013: 800 × 536 (61 KB): Fæ {{Information |description = {{en|''Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945.''<br/> Short Sunderland Mark IIIs of No. 230 Squadron RAF undergo an engine-change (foreground) and other overhauls, on a trackway at Koggala, Ceylon.}} |author ...
A Sunderland Mk III parked up at Hobsonville, December 1944. One Sunderland, NZ4103, was converted for civilian operations in January 1946 and soon afterwards, two of the others were used for training of Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL) flight crew, preparing them for the airline's newly acquired Short Sandringham flying boats ...
The squadron was re-formed at RAF Pembroke Dock on 16 January 1941 from part of 210 Squadron, initially with three Short Sunderland flying boats. Moved to Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 17 March 1941; Moved to Gambia in March 1943, with detachments to Sierra Leone, Dakar and Liberia; Disbanded on 30 June 1945