Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, G-BLSC / 1997, Plane Sailing Air Displays Ltd.
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Registration: G-BLSC
Construction Number: 1997
Code Number: P
Model Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
Operator: Plane Sailing Air Displays Ltd.
Airport: RAF Fairford (FFD / EGVA), UK - England
Airshow: Fairford - IAT - 1993
Photographer: Martin Laycock
Date Taken: 22/07/1993
Date Submitted: 09/06/2010
Photographed arriving at IAT93, this Catalina wears an interim colour scheme without serial, she would later be painted in Coastal Command markings with the fake serial JV928/Y. Sadly she crashed on Southampton Water in 1998, tragically with the loss of two lives. She is ex-US Navy Bu. No. 46633 built in 1944.
Picture ID:1236826