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Catalina ready to fly

After nearly 12 months of routine maintenance and continuing restoration, the HARS PBY6A Catalina moved from the back of hangar 3 into the light once more, ready to fly again.  The left and right leading edges of the main wing were removed, inspected, minor repairs carried out and then replaced on […]

Southern Cross II wing passes the test

Work to rebuild the wing of the flying replica of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s Fokker F7/3M Southern Cross will now proceed after the structure passed a vital deflection test.  The wing was recently inverted and mounted in a heavy steel support, and then loaded with bricks supplied by local company M J Rowles.   Seen in […]