Quiz 3,000 – Wot aircraft am I?

For my 3,000th post (hem) I thought we’d have a different quiz.

What aircraft am I?

I was built in the thirties, and used then and during W.W.II, both in civil use and military.

I saw front line service, but that career has been almost forgotten, while my second line military service has been better remembered.

I wore wheels and floats, but mostly wheels and went to sea with a Navy or two, as well as flying over land with various militaries.

The Australians, British, Czechs, French, Germans, Spanish and Swedish used me among other nations. Some of them also built me, and I’m not from just one country.

My civil career was very divese, and no one’s listed everything I did, but lots of people think the most important job was just being developed.

I have a remarkable number of survivors – One in the USA, one in Australia, several in Britain, some in France, Italy Latin America, Spain and Sweden, and others.

But only one of me has flown in the last 30 odd years and that one was a replica.

I’m odd, and JDK likes me 😀

And MikeJ won’t guess who I am 😉

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