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Dassault Mirage 5 C-412 and Mirage III EA I-003 have been mounted on two
plinths at Tandil, Argentina, the headquarters of VI Brigada Aérea. The aircraft
form part of a memorial remembering Argentine service personnel lost in the
1982 Falklands War. Mirage C-412 fl ew six combat sorties during the confl ict.
EL ECO VIA JUAN CARLOS CICALESIMirage pair installed as
monument in
Argentina
Stearman-Hammond Y-1S NC15521 is to
be restored to airworthy condition by
a new museum in the Netherlands.
The Nederlands Transport Museum
is set to open at Nieuw-Vennep, close
to Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, in the
spring. Although mostly focused on
vehicles, part of the museum will include
aircraft and the Y-1S was among the fi rst
exhibits to arrive in early January.Not to be confused with the famous
and widely built Stearman biplane,
around 20 Stearman-Hammond utility
monoplanes were made. The Y-1S was
the production version, powered by
a 150hp (112kW) Menasco C-4S pusher
engine. The distinctive, twin-boomed
aircraft were used by Dutch airline
KLM to train pilots on nose-wheeled
aircraft. ROGER SOUPARTPan Am ‘jumbo’ cockpit
saved for museum
The cockpit and nose of Boeing
747 N743PA has been transported
to the North East Land, Sea and
Air Museums (NELSAM), near
Sunderland. The former Pan Am
airliner had previously been used
as a training aid for fi re crews at
Prestwick in Scotland.
The airframe was due to be cutup and disposed of, but former
RAF fi tter Stuart Abbott (who now
runs Stu-Art Aviation Furniture)
has saved the nose and cockpit
section. It is being transported to
NELSAM in several parts and will
be reassembled on site.
WITH THANKS TO IAN MCLAREN
http://www.nelsam.org.ukDutch museum to focus
on Stearman-Hammond
restoration
The cockpit of Y-1S NC15521 at Nieuw-Vennep recently. ROGER SOUPART
An archive view of Y-1S PH-APY in service with KLM in the 1930s. VIA ROGER SOUPART