Short Sunderland Aviation Art Painting Print by Aircraft Artist Roger Middlebrook GAvA
Based on the company's C
Class and Golden Hind flying boats, the Short Sunderland has become one of the
most recognisable aircraft from WWII. Large and equipped with an array of
weaponry during the war, the aircraft proved an admirable U-Boat killer,
especially when fitted with ASV radar later in the war. Though supplemented by
both the Consolidated Catalina and Liberator, the Sunderland remained in
frontline service with the RAF into the 1950s.
The one seen here is the
aircraft now preserved in the RAF Museum, Hendon and shows her wearing the
colours of 330 (Norwegian) Squadron. The aircraft currently wears the markings
of 201 Squadron
