I saw a program on TV the other day about aircraft spotters, and it was mostly about a spotter couple (!). They described how they met – on the viewing terrace of an international airport :p – and it got more serious after one them proposed to the other that they should combine their slide collections…. :p :p

3: Morane-Saulnier Paris (France)
4d: Taiwan
12d: Libya

MBB’s two converted Buchons, D-FMBB (‘109G-6) and D-FEHD (‘109G-10)

They are owned by the Willy-Messerschmitt-Foundation, are operated by EADS (MBB doesn’t exist anymore), the G-10 is registered D-FDME (it was D-FEHD when it was still a Hispano) and they are both still grounded with engine problems, although a well-informed source told me yesterday that they are aiming to have the G-6 ready for ILA in Berlin in May.

Here’s a very interesting article on the subject of “Bf” or “Me” (for the 109 anyway):

http://109lair.hobbyvista.com/index1024.htm

I read somewhere that it will be restored for static display in the museum in Brussels (which is where their CASA 352 went as well). Wonder what happened to the Lodestar they also had?

Very interesting pics! Nice to see that Norseman; looks as if it has had a chequered history – would you happen to know more about it?

I agree that it is not representative of the role that RAF Catalinas performed, but then again that did not seem to trouble the RAF Museum when they acquired it. It does however have one link to the RAF as at least one RDanAF Catalina crew member had also flown on them in a Norwegian squadron in RAF Coastal Command during WWII. I should like to correct respectively add to its function in the Danish AF: It was not only an aerial survey a/c, but served as a SAR and transport aircraft as well, mostly in the harsh environment on Greenland, but also as support aircraft for scientific expeditions to Africa. In fact, 23 years continuous operation of this type of aircraft in the aforementioned Arctic environment is quite a feat in my opinion, and more or less disregarded in the Catalina books that I have seen.