64 items in this album on 4 pages.

H8K flying boat taking off, US Navy Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, 1946-1947; seen in Aug 1947 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation NewsH8K2-L Seiku transport flying boat of Japanese 11th Naval Air Arsenal, Japan, circa late 1940sBritish mechanics inspecting a captured Japanese H6K flying boat, Sourabaya, Java, Jan 1946The former PT-694, a 70-foot Vosper, with the Hughes Tool Company as a service boat in the H-4 Flying Boat project, 1950s. Later sold to Universal Studios and painted as PT-73 for the opening credits of “McHale’s Navy.”
H8K flying boat taking off, US Navy Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, 1946-1947; seen in Aug 1947 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation NewsH8K2-L Seiku transport flying boat of Japanese 11th Naval Air Arsenal, Japan, circa late 1940sBritish mechanics inspecting a captured Japanese H6K flying boat, Sourabaya, Java, Jan 1946The former PT-694, a 70-foot Vosper, with the Hughes Tool Company as a service boat in the H-4 Flying Boat project, 1950s. Later sold to Universal Studios and painted as PT-73 for the opening credits of “McHale’s Navy.”

64 items in this album on 4 pages.



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