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Blackburn Skua II
- Reg: L2940 photos
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- Airline: United Kingdom - Royal Navy
- Photo Date: Sep 21, 2015
- Uploaded: Oct 16, 2016
- Yeovilton - EGDY, United Kingdom
L2940 is one of two remaining examples of this aircraft. The Skua was a fighter/bomber used by the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm in the early years of WWII. The aircraft made a crash landing on the frozen Breidalsvalnet Lake near Grotli in Norway on 27 April 1940 having sustained damage during combat with a German Heinkel He-111 which it had just shot down. The crew escaped and made their way to a nearby hut which had unbeknown to them been occupied by the surviving crew members of their Heinkel victim who had baled out of their stricken aircraft. The incident was depicted in a Norwegian produced movie in 2012. The Skua was recovered from the lake in 1974 and brought to Yeovilton where it was placed in a special exhibition at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. The aircraft has not been restored (although all parts are present) but has been put on display in a large scale diorama scene depicting the recovery of the Skua from beneath the ice of the lake.
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L2940 is one of two remaining examples of this aircraft. The Skua was a fighter/bomber used by the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm in the early years of WWII. The aircraft made a crash landing on the frozen Breidalsvalnet Lake near Grotli in Norway on 27 April 1940 having sustained damage during combat with a German Heinkel He-111 which it had just shot down. The crew escaped and made their way to a nearby hut which had unbeknown to them been occupied by the surviving crew members of their Heinkel victim who had baled out of their stricken aircraft. The incident was depicted in a Norwegian produced movie in 2012. The Skua was recovered from the lake in 1974 and brought to Yeovilton where it was placed in a special exhibition at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. The aircraft has not been restored (although all parts are present) but has been put on display in a large scale diorama scene depicting the recovery of the Skua from beneath the ice of the lake.Camera
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- Reg: L2940 photos
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Aircraft:
Blackburn Skua II
- Airline: United Kingdom - Royal Navy
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Yeovilton - EGDY
- United Kingdom