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All of a sudden.. I find the Finns have a Blackburn Ripon...

Posted by Paul McMillan on Tue Sep 18, 2001 04:52:03 AM

There was an article in this months Aircraft Illustrated about the Finnish Museum of Aeronautics, with a nice picture of the remains of a Gloster Gamecock II.

However, there is a storage yard at Lahti-Vesivehmaa which contains a Caudron C59, a Caudron-Reanault CR-714 and a BLACKBURN RIPON IIF, un-restored. What the FAA Museum would give for that baby..

See:

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/Ripon.html

and
http://www.jiop.fi/ksimuseo/planes.html

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