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Short Sunderland (AP1566). (Suffixes A through E for Mk I through V, -PN and Vols 1 through 4 for Pilots Notes, General Description, Maintenance, Overhaul and Parts Manuals). London: RAF (Air Publication), 1945. Simper, Robert. River Medway and the Swale. Lavenham, Suffolk, UK: Creekside Publishing, 1998. ISBN 978-0-9519927-7-7. Southall, Ivan ...
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 ...
In 1944, the Short Shetland, a high-speed, long-range, four-engined flying-boat, was built (with Saunders-Roe providing the wings and detail design work), but the project was abandoned shortly after the end of the war, however conversions and developments of the Sunderland entered service as transports, starting during the war with the Hythe ...
While the first prototype had retained the Pegasus engines, common to both the Sunderland III and Hythe, later models of the Sandringham, which were converted by Short and Harland Ltd at Belfast Harbour, were based on the later Sunderland V, which were instead powered by Pratt & Whitney "Twin Wasp" engines. [10]
The prototype XPB2Y-4 was powered by four Wright R-2600 radials and offered improved performance, but the increases were not enough to justify a full fleet update. However, most PB2Y-3 models were converted to the PB2Y-5 standard, with the R-1830 engines replaced with single-stage R-1830-92 models.
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 ...
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
The squadron went to 4 Wing RCAF Station Baden-Soellingen in August 1953, becoming part of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1968. Becoming 422 Fighter Squadron, CAF, it remaining there until deactivation in July 1970. [2] A Short Sunderland flying boat of No. 422 Squadron at Castle Archdale, Northern Ireland