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Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp 14 cylindres de 1 200ch, x4


<a href="http://wings-on-film.wikia.com/wiki/ML796" rel="nofollow">wings-on-film.wikia.com/wiki/ML796</a> Built by Short Brothers as a Mk III, ML796 was subsequently converted to Mk V standard.

Delivered to Calshot on 15 May 1945, it joined No.228 Sqdn at Pembroke Dock shortly afterwards. To No.4 OTU, Alness on 3 March 1946, and then to No.57 MU, Wig Bay on 10 July 1946. Reactivated for No.230 Sqdn in 1948 for the Berlin Airlift.

On 20 December 1949, ML796 was included in a batch of Sunderlands for the French Navy, overhauled at Belfast 22 June to 3 August 1950 and handed over to the French Navy. Served with Flottile 7FE, Dakar until December 1960. 

Flown to France and stored at Lanveoc-Poulmic for 5 years until bought by M. R. Bertin and used as a disco at Maisden-le-Riviere for 4 years, then moved to La Baule as a nightclub and restaurant.
A planned motorway through the site forced M. Bertin to offer it free to anyone who could take it away. The offer was accepted by the Imperial War Museum and it arrived at Duxford in five sections on 9 July 1976.
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Author Falcon® Photography from France, France
Camera location52° 05′ 45.03″ N, 0° 07′ 59.4″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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