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Historic Aircraft Recovery and Preservation => War / Service Related Aircraft topics => Topic started by: Russ Matthews on February 27, 2011, 01:35:33 AM
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... on the River Thames and now under restoration for the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9406000/9406574.stm
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Thanks for posting the link Russ,sounds like an interesting project!.
Matt.
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Oooops .. looks like this was old news! Just found a link on another online forum which shows this unique aviation artifact was discovered and moved to the FAA museum back in 1996!
http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/ships_register.php?action=ship&id=712
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Interesting history Russ. Thanks for posting. Who would have thought that the roots of naval aviation would go back to "lighter's" such as this.