[QUOTE=Gooney Bird;1511087]I hadn’t realised that he had bought it. I thought it was owned by TD Keegan.

Going back to this post from a while ago, Catalina G-APZA was registered to T D Keegan & Ptnrs on 14/1/1960. There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that Hughie Green had an interest in this aircraft so possibly he was one of the partners. It would be good to know for sure.

Re post 110 & 112, Catalina G-PBYA Miss Pick Up is still in Poland. The Catalina seen over the UK yesterday was the former Paris area-based Canso A N9767 on its way to new owners in Oregon. Night-stopped at Inverness.

EB:

The entry in the aforementioned book just says “arrived from Zweibrucken” and the later entry for DX says “ferried to”.

I’ve looked through my data but cannot identify a loss in the Sound of Mull without any more precise info.

All the electrical plugs will be twin pin apparently.

Scotavia – there was an admittedly small display in celebration of RAF100 a few weeks ago at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland. Poor weather prevented some participants from getting there but there was an RAF Tornado and Plane Sailing’s Catalina made a number of water takeoffs and landings. Small but nice!

What many people probably did not know at the time was that, en route to West Malling for the 1989 show, the Sunderland had a rendezvous with Plane Sailing’s first Catalina G-BLSC some way to the west of the airfield so that Arthur Gibson could take some air-to-airs of the two flying boats from his Aztec. For around 20 minutes the two flew together in a number of very close formation positions for his camera. Sadly, and for reasons not known to me, there was no agreement to continue the formation to West Malling so that it could be enjoyed by the crowds there. The display is mentioned in Peter Smith’s book The Last Flying Boat ML814 Islander but the photo sortie is not referred to. I shall never forget looking out of the Catalina’s windows at that big white flying boat (“SC did not have the rear hull blisters at that point sadly). My log tells me that the Catalina’s pilots were Paul Warren Wilson (Captain) and Pete Treadaway (co-pilot). The Sunderland was captained by Ken Emmott and the co-pilot was Mike Searle.

Ian – I have now done a bit more digging. The second Guba, ie: not Guba II, was flown to Rose Bay, Sydney, ex-Port Moresby, by Dr Richard Archbold’s pilot Russell Rogers to collect supplies which were subsequently flown out to Archbold’s expedition in New Guinea. The arrival date in Sydney was 22Nov38. During the stop-over, the idea of a survey flight over the Indian Ocean was discussed between Archbold and Capt PG Taylor. In Archbold’s report on his New Guinea expedition, he makes no mention of any visit to Sydney by Guba in April 1939. When the Archbold expedition came to an end, Guba was flown to Rose Bay, leaving Hollandia on 12May39 and arriving at Sydney via Port Moresby on 14May. At Rose Bay, it was prepared for the Indian Ocean survey and then flew to Melbourne’s Williamstown harbour on an unknown date. It returned to Rose Bay and finally flew out to Port Hedland, WA at 15:45 local, 05:45 GMT on 03Jun39 arriving the next day. The Jun39 dates are confirmed in Cape PG Taylor’s report on the Trans Indian Ocean Survey Flight.