Anyone knwo the story on these two aircraft at the Visby airport? Pics were taken a few years ago and just “re-discovered”. Also a pic of a Centurion that was being loaded onto the ferry. Wasnt there and armored unit on Gotland until recently? I would have thought they would have been using Leopard II’s.
By: Entropy - 7th December 2006 at 22:24
Thanks guys!
By: SierraEchoFred - 6th December 2006 at 19:12
32502: This was used mainly by Saab for ejection seat trials in conection with the development of the Draken and Viggen. This a/c did it last flight 11.6.81, TT399 hrs.
CCCP-70501: This An-2 ditched off the coast of Eastern Gotland on 27.5.87 (Just as Mattias Rust was flying in the oposite direction.) It was flown by a sole pilot who had t/o from Saldu in Latvia and wanted to defect. The Russians didn’t want to take care of the salvaged Colt so they sold it to the Kåremo collection. It was in ca 1998 handed over to the Gotlands flygmuseum. TT 4211 hrs.
Centurion: 200 of these were bought in the late 50s by the Swedish Army and served until the early 90s. I belive a number of them were used on Gotland by the regiment P 18. This unit was disbanded a few years back.
By: Jan - 6th December 2006 at 08:21
Hi Entropy,
Both aircraft belongs to the Gotlands Flygmuseum (The Gotland Air Museum).
The Saab 32 Lansen is the second prototype of the J 32B series, s/n Fv 32502. Only the fuselage survives. The Antonov An-2 Colt was flown to Sweden by a Russian defector sometime during the early 1980s. From memory, the pilot ditched in the Baltic. The Colt was retrieved, and although the Russians wanted it returned, the wreck was sold to a Swedish buyer. The Colt was subsequently obtained by the Kåremo Flygmuseum near Kalmar, which upon closure sold most of its exhibits to the Gotlands Flygmuseum.
Re the Centurion, the Swedish army operated a substantial number of them.
Regards,
Jan
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December 5, 2006 at 8:55 pm