Canadian-Vickers PBV-1A Canso A, 47001 / CV-244, Flygvapenmuseum Malmen
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Registration: 47001
Construction Number: CV-244
Code Number: 79
Model Canadian-Vickers PBV-1A Canso A
Operator: Flygvapenmuseum Malmen
Airport: Linkoping - Malmen (ESCF), Sweden
Photographer: Tony Edlind
Date Taken: 23/06/1992
Date Submitted: 12/07/2008
At the Flygvapenmuseum Linköping. The Catalina was to place history as one of the two Swedish aircraft that were shot down by Soviet fighters in 1952. One of them was a Swedish DC-3 on ELINT mission was declared as missing without a trace on 13th June 1952. Note: the DC-3 has been found and salvaged in 2004. Another wreck of a Catalina has also been found, 2004 near the cost of Estonia.
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