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Swedish PBY

jankees

jankees

SOH-CM-2025
I visited the rebuilt Swedish Air Force museum earlier this summer, and one of the main exhibits centers around the so-called 'Catalina affair', where an unarmed Catalina rescue plane was looking for a military Swedish DC-3 that had disappeared between Gotland and Estonia. It was attacked by Russian Migs and shot down. Much much later, it was discovered that the DC-3 had been shot down too. The wreckage of the DC-3 was recently discovered, recovered and is currently on display in the museum, as is one of the remaining PBY's (Sweden had three).

I have done a few repaints for the Aerosoft Catalina, but not yet the Swedish version.
But no fear, it is now here:

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I was wondering about that tail number, as Sweden had only three PBY's.
Sweden called the PBY the TP47, so why the 79?
The one in the museum has a 79, but I could not find out why.
Luckily, persistent searching unearthed a swedish site with some old pictures of #01. That is the one in the museum.
#47002 was shot down by the russians on 16 june 1952 (the Catalina Affair), while #47003 was used for parts for #47001, (which was used until 1966) and finally scrapped at the end of the '60s.
So I decided to paint #02:

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What a beautiful PBY that is. Thank goodness it was not one of the peace time jobbies with it's turret chopped off. It looks like a real PBY should. Great job Jankees.
 
Regar Tp 47 Canso at the Flygvapenmusem

Hi Jankees !

The only remaining Tp 47 at the 'Flygvapenmuseum' was bough together with 3 other from Canada in 1947. These aircraft was canadian built, I also think the canadian nickname was Canso not Catalina.

The Tp 47 at the museum is ex CV244 RCAF 9810. The number on the fin, has nothing to do what type of aircraft it is. This is a individial number, exempel: we has also a Tp79 with no. 77 on the fin.

The front turret was also converted to a radardom and no armament was carried.

I also Tank You for the wonderfull skins you make. I think you is the only one to make paint for swedish air force aircraft used in FSX. Besides RB Design.

Glad to se you visit the rebuilt Flygvapenmuseum.

Best Regard
DennyBoy
 
Hi Jankees

It is interesting that you have chosen to paint this Catalina, since one of my own very first repaints was a version of the DC-3 that they were searching for. I had just published my repaint of the Danish OY-BPB when I was contacted by the Swedish TV station TV4. They were going to make a program about the finding of the DC-3 in 2003 and they needed some footage of a flying DC-3. Unfortunately they didn't have access to a real DC-3 that looked at all like the downed plane, but one of the producers thought about using flightsim instead, and then they found me and asked if I could make a rapaint for them :icon_lol:

Since there were no pictures of the actual top secret plane to be found, the repaint is more or less fictional, but this is what it looked like (well, almost - these pictures are taken in FSX with a 2048x2048 version of the texture):

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Bacuse of the mirroring of textures I made both a "left side" and a "right side" version for them to use, and of course they ended up using the wrong version for all the flying clips...

Regards
Kim
 
Good job Jan! I love the Aerosoft PBY. One of the best models flying in FSX!!! Really sets the bar high for the rest of us dev's and its a few years old!
 
Helldiver said:
What a beautiful PBY that is. Thank goodness it was not one of the peace time jobbies with it's turret chopped off. It looks like a real PBY should. Great job Jankees.
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I agree with you HD. Without the bow turret the PBY looks like a victim of bad plastic surgery. Never could understand why Abacus produced their FS9 PBY without a turret-equipped model.
 
Leave it to the brave Russkis to use slow moving, unarmed PBY and a DC-3 for target practice for their MIGs. They were a big enough target that marksmanship was not a issue.
 
Thanks for posting...I was unaware that there was a great PBY available for the sim....just bought it and downloading
 
Helldiver said:
Leave it to the brave Russkis to use slow moving, unarmed PBY and a DC-3 for target practice for their MIGs. They were a big enough target that marksmanship was not a issue.
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The North Koreans also prefer large targets, such as the USN EC-121 "Willie Victor" they shot down in April 1969. :mad: That incident almost extended our deployment aboard USS Coral Sea, we were on the way home at the time.
 
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