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Aero Vintage Swedish Hawker B4 reply to Guy Black

Posted by Mikael Olrog on Wed May 14, 2003 04:44:05 PM

Hello Guy,

Many thanks for your replies to mine and Paul?s queries. You mention the date April 1933, the three Harts imported to Sweden from England were accepted by Flygvapnet on 01JUN1934, more than a year after that date. So I guess that there could be a part with that date.

You also mentioned the number three, which could indicate that it was either the third machine imported from England (FV703) or that it was the third machine built by G?taverket (FV727) which carried c/n 3 from that factory ,which was one of three Swedish companies that built the Hart on License.

Another piece of information that you gave me in your reply, was that it was recovered in a fresh water lake. In a list of Hawker Hart crashes in swedish service both FV703 and FV727 crashed on land? Which would indicate that the machine you have is none of the above.

In a Swedish booklet there is a list of the 26 crashes with the Hart in Swedish service (not counting the ones lost in Finland) and when I go through it I can only find on incident that could be interpreted as having taken place in a lake slightly north of Stockholm on 17AUG1944. The machine concerned was FV719 and it was a B4A (which fits nicely with the type mentioned previously by you Guy).

There is another machine that crashed on the ice of a lake but the information seem to indicate that it didn?t sink to the bottom.

Anyway since I live in Stockholm were the Swedish War Archives are I?d be happy to do some more research if you have some more information that you can assist me with and if you're interested in finding out the true identity. I can also be reached at webmaster@preservedaxisaircraft.com.

Best wishes
/Mikael


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