I’ve been meaning to post these for a while. They are from my Father’s collection and written on the back of one of the photo’s is: Mediterranean – off Gibraltar. Experimenting firing off (launching) planes (and picking them up presumably). I think somewhere – I’ll keep looking – is a good shot inside the cockpit of the instrument panel. My father was in the Royal Navy from 1919 to 1945.
I hope you find these interesting. If anyone has anymore info I’d be pleased to hear. Many thanks.
By: Lynx815 - 16th August 2018 at 17:39
N9594 was an Avro Bison Mk I, last noted with 423 Flt aboard HMS Eagle in the Mediterranean by March 1928 until March 1929 coded ‘27’. The note against this in Air Britain’s Fleet Air Arm Aircraft, Units and Ships 1920 to 1939 states: “Believed to be the aircraft coded ‘5’ which crashed in the sea on pilotless aircraft tests from HMS Courageous on 26 July 1929 (but N9592 also suggested)”. Your photos seem to confirm N9594.
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August 16, 2018 at 2:56 pm