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John Robertson

Blackburn Botha In April 1941, 50 Blackburn Bothas arrived at Evanton, to replace the Harrows, for Air Gunner traini...
Ditched Blackburn Botha This Evanton based Blackburn Botha ditched in the Cromarty Firth on 9th September 1943. The aircraft...
Crashed Blackburn Botha Another Botha crash, this time at Fearn.
Short Singapore Flying Boats In September 1938, 209 Squadron started operating Short Singapore flying boats out of Invergordon.
Saro London Flying Boat At the outbreak of war, 240 Squadron moved to Invergordon along with their Saro London flying boats....
Supermarine Stranraer On 3rd September 1939, Supermarine Stranraers of 209 Squadron, Invergordon, were on patrol in the No...
Short S30 Empire Class Flying Boat On 21st January 1940, two Short S30 Empire Class flying boats V3137 (ex G-AFCU Cabot) and V3138 9ex ...
Short Sunderland N9046 Sunderland N9046 earned the Sunderland the nickname 'Flying Porcupine' on a sortie from Invergordon,...
Norwegian Escapee With the fall of Norway a number of Royal Norwegian Air Force, RNAF, escaped to Britain. This aircra...
Heinkel He 115 Five Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNAF) Heinkel He 115 aircraft escaped to Scotland, after the fall of...
Returning Crew The crew of a Catalina walk up the slipway at Invergordon. Their aircraft can be seen in the backgro...
Lerwick L7257 Lerwick L7257, which had sunk at moorings on 11th November 1941, is shown after being partially refl...

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