I was there, just by the inflatable hangar. The Harrier got out just before the thing collapsed when one of our mechs bounced a sharp flint off the side.
John

It didn’t come with a ‘Kit, Repair, Puncture’ then?

If I recall correctly, many second level sellers use software to calculate a price that takes ito account previous selling price and availability. Hence some nutty prices.

Another source is Abebooks

http://www.abebooks.co.uk

which searches through lots of independant 2nd hand book sellers.

The Vigilant is unlikely – only 4 were delivered to the UK, in late 1941, and they were undergoing trials in the UK in that time. I can’t find any reference to the UK testing or using a floatplane version. If it was a Stinson, I’d wager it was one of the SR types that were impressed.

I wonder if it could have been a DH type – from memory, the RAF had at least one DH cabin floatplane.

The GR1 DB is at Wittering in the Harrier shrine

Or as it’s officially known, the Harrier Heritage Centre…..

http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=52510

The ex-Norwegian 115s are worthy of a thread of their own, I only mentioned them as being types that have been claimed as being used for clandestine flights to Norway (From Woodhaven on the Tay).

Regarding the Northrops, they sprung to my mind too, but 330 Squadron were based in Iceland (and Canada) in that timeframe.

There are reports of Catalinas and He115s being used for such purposes (indeed there was a book by a Canadian author which detailed ‘his’ adventures as a navigator on such missions on He115s, although many of his claims of involvement were dusputed by Norwegian historians).

I’d imagine movement records would not inlcude SIS flights.

Hard to beleive in this day and age something like a Catalina would be scrapped

I remember seeing these (or one of the other batches) fly over my house.