This folder contains a repaint for the Noorduyn Norseman by BigRadials, in the colors of Noorduyn Norseman VH-GSA of Gibbes Sepik Airways Ltd. Delivered to the USAAF as aircraft No.43-5259 on November 24, 2021 but transferred via Lend-Lease to the Royal Australian Air Force. Flown to Newark, New Jersey on November 25 for shipment to Australia. Assigned to the No, 1 Communications Unit, Essendon, Vic. And coded as A71-6. Transferred to the Care and Maintenance Unit, Tocumwal in February 1946 and placed in storage. Later sold to Gibbes-Sepik Airways Ltd., Port Moresby, Papau and registered as VH-GSA. Crashed while landing at Mount Hagan, New Guinea following engine failure on October 4, 1956. Aircraft was repaired. It crashed in a thunderstorm 6 miles north of Mendi, New Guinea on July 8, 1958. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom.
As a kid I lived in the Sepik district and GSA was our connection to Wewak. Flew in the Norseman many times (occasionally scary) but the pilots were real legends!
Cheers
9 months ago
Mountainair
Great livery, Jan!! I had hoped you would do this one, thanks a lot.
11 months ago
Bernd1151