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Re: Interesting registration.....

Posted by Paul McMillan on Wed Jan 16, 2002 09:21:08 AM

In reply top Interesting registration..... posted by Benjamin Gilbert on Wed Jan 16, 2002 07:46:52 AM

Didn't I read that the Gloucester Aviation Society were supposed to be restoring a Gladiator. They went to Norway to get some wreckage pieces and were restoring one for themesleves.

Now if you put N5719 in Google you get H?kan Gustavsson excellent Biplane Aces Page and this bird crashed due to fuel shortage on 23 May 1940 in Norway. But it has a 'Kill' to its name!

http://www.dalnet.se/~surfcity/commonwealth_whall.htm

However if you see

http://www.jetagemuseum.org/general/executive.htm

for GAC info where they mention a Gladiator but this one is listed on another web site as Gloster Gladiator II N5914 and was recovered in 1998. So prehaps it is NOT this organisation after all and someone else has been to Norway!

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