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    Airframe Family: Short S25 Solent/Sandringham/Sunderland
    Latest Model:Sunderland MR.V
    Last Military Serial:RN269
    Compressed ID:Short Sunderland MR.V sn RN269
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Force-RAF

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    Event

    Constructed as a Sunderland MR.V.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with s/n RN269.

    To Royal Air Force-RAF with new c/r.

    Circa April 1953


    Photographer: SAC David George Harrison (dcd)
    Notes: My Dad, a SAC with 205 Squadron, based at Iwakuni, Japan during the Korean war. His kite was P for Peter.

    28 June 1953

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. This was a military flight. The accident occurred at off Sangley Point Air Base (Philippines) while landing. Narrative: Sunderland RN269, operated by the 205 Squadron, landed at Sangley Pount, Philippines. After planing the waves, it was forced into the air and struck the water again. The crew carried out an overshoot because water had entered the flight deck. It appeared that there were holes in the bottom fuselage as well as planing surface. The crew then landed in shallow water were the Sunderland sank nose down...
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