Short S.26, G-AFCI / S.871, Imperial Airways
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Registration: G-AFCI
Construction Number: S.871
Code Number: Golden Hind
Model Short S.26
Operator: Imperial Airways
Airport: Rochester (EGTO), UK - England
Photographer: Mike Dowsing Collection
Date Taken: 1939
Date Submitted: 23/11/2011
This photograph from 'Flight', shows what appears to be the launching of the first of three, 'G' class boats. Impressed in to RAF service, as X8275, it went to BOAC, in 1941, until 1946. Damaged, while at anchor, in 1947, it seems not to have been scrapped, until 1954.
Picture ID:1322334