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c/n 811 Built 1944 for US military service with the serial 44-70546. Sold for commercial use in 1947 and registered as LN-PAB. Written off in 1952 at Gavnevann and remained there until recovered by the museum in 2002, with restoration beginning in 2005. Still under restoration, she is currently on display in the Civil Aircraft Hall of the Norsk Luftfartsmuseum (Norwegian Aviation Museum). Bodø, Northern Norway 24th May 2019

The following information on ‘LN-SNI’ is from the Museum website:-

“The aircraft on display is being reconstructed from the wreck of LN-PAB. It was originally built in 1944 and was used by the USAAF. In 1947 it was registered to Polarfly A/S in Narvik and from 1949 to Widerøe’s Flyveselskap and Polarfly A/S. LN-PAB was Norway’s first civil-registered Norseman Mk VI. It was mainly flown in Northern Norway. In 1952 the plane was written off while landing at Gavnevann in Finnmark, where it hit a tongue of land and capsized. This was during the Cold War and the grapevine has it that it was on a task for Norwegian Military Intelligence.

No-one was injured in the accident, but the aircraft lay at Gavnevann as a wreck for 50 years. In 2002, the Norwegian Aviation Museum and Bodø Aviation Historical Society were permitted to bring it in to the Museum. Reconstruction started in 2005 and is still under way. In the years to 2018, many thousands of hours have been invested.”
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Source Noorduyn Norseman VI [LN-PAB]
Author Alan Wilson from Peterborough, Cambs, UK
Camera location67° 16′ 31.57″ N, 14° 24′ 50.08″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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