Fleet Air Arm Museum
Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton (HMS Heron), Ilchester, Somerset, England
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The wreck of a Blackburn Skua (L2490) forced to land on a frozen lake in Norway in 1940 and sank when the ice melted. Recovered in 1974.

 

The wreck of a Blackburn Skua (L2490) recovered from the bottom of a frozen lake in Norway.

 

The wreck of a Blackburn Skua (L2490) recovered from the bottom of a frozen lake in Norway.

 

Supermarine Seafire F17 (SX137) first flown in 1945.

 

Hawker Sea Fury FB11 (WJ231) first flown in 1951.

(All photos and captions courtesy of Philip J. Heydon, I.S.M.)
© 2008 Philip J. Heydon all rights reserved

 



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