I was so excited scrolling down, hoping to find a picture of the most beautiful airliner, a de Havilland DH 91 Albatross, at Reykjavik airport. They were used as a high speed couriers between UK and Iceland in the first years of the war.
…but, old eagle, thanks a lot for sharing the pictures.
The T-6 Harvard 44-82028 was used as a shuttle between Keflavik and Reykjavik airports by the USAF brass in KEF. Registered in 1945 as TF-FSA to Iceland CAA. Exported to the US in 1953 and registerd as N66J.
Hard to say which one of the Grumman Goose this is. A total of seven were registered soon after the war, and used on the domestic routes in Iceland into the sixties.
TF-KAT, a Luscombe Silvaire 8A, was registered in May 1945, crashed in May 1947.
Steve T wrote:
“Of all the singular stuff in here, maybe the thing that intrigues me the most is what appears to be a standard BCATP Canadian-built Tiger Moth. How, and why, would THAT have gone to Iceland??”
Steve, there were a total of seven DH-82C’s imported to Iceland just after the war and used for flight instruction and private flying. The picture probably shows the last one remaining, TF-KBD, s/n 1407. One of the PT-24 batch, USAF 42-1068. In idle restoration, whatever that means.
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