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Re: Norwegian Gladiator Queries
Posted by Mikael on Sun Oct 27, 2002 02:33:52 AM
In reply top Norwegian Gladiator Queries posted by Paul McMillan on Sat Oct 26, 2002 12:34:03 PM
Hi Paul
I did start on a list on all aircraft recovered in Norway, but I haven't finished it yet - and god knows if it is possible. May be Norway have yielded more aircraft than Russia...
Anyway on the Gladiator front I've heard that some parts or structures of N5647 was recovered in May 2002. It is also said that there are more wreck sites which will be visited.
At Gardemoen some wings, parts from the tail, bits and pieces are stored from the Norwegian Gladiator 427 (same paintscheme as the Shuttleworth example have had) which were shot down during the invasion on April 9, 1940.
I guess (really it is a guess!) that the wings you mention have gone to Malta.
/Mikael
: All,
:
: I am trying to make head and tail of the Gladiators recove
: red over the years from Norway..
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: Lake Lejaskogsvatn recovered ones:
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: N5579 (wreckage) was stored at in Norway
: N5628 (wreckage) is preserved at the RAF Museum at Hendon
: N5641 is preserved at the RNoAF Museum at Bodo
: N5589 (wreckage) last noted at RAF Wildenrath in 88. Maybe
: going to Retro and Track???
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: Other Norwegian ones:
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: N5719 shot down 22/05/40 wreckage under restoration with R
: etro & Track as G-CBHO
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: N5914 (some sources state that this was N5893) shot down b
: y German ace Lt H. Lent east of Rombaksfjorden on 02/06/40
: ; P/O J. L. Wilkie killed. Aircraft recovered in the end o
: f 1998 and brought to Great Britain for restoration by Jet
: Age Museum.
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: L1988 - (46 Sqn) Lost 29/05/40. Wreckage recovered by Bodo
: Aviation Museum around 1998.
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: ??? - Wing from Norwegian Gladiator that is in storage wit
: h RNoAF Musuem
:
: ??? - FAA Museum (Fuselage delivered 2002) I have seen thi
: s quoted as N5579 (this is to be restored as N5518).
:
: Now the questions are:
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: With the 5 way deal between RNoAF/Malta Air Museum/Jet Age
: Museum/FAA Musuem and Retro and Track, what aircraft is g
: oing where?
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: Did the FAA get the fuselage of N5579 from Norway and is t
: his the basis of their new fuselage or is it N5589?
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: What is the basis of the Norwegian Gladiator, the wing of
: which will provide the 'Norwegian ID'.
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: Both Andy S and Mikael have eluded to more recent recoveri
: es, whats the story there??
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: Thanks
:
: Paul (trying to sort the wheat from the chaff) over all th
: ese goings on...
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