Fiji – aircraft on stamps – Part IV  

Hello, after a while I feel I am showing the same aircraft even if on a different stamp. Only to be expected I guess after showing so many  stamps.  This one you will no doubt recognize as a Sunderland flying boat, a Short S.25  to be precise.

The stamp was issued in 1969, one of a set of 3 commemorating the inauguration of the University of the South Pacific.  The image shows the site of the University at what is now the former Royal New Zealand Air Force seaplane station at Laucala Bay near Suva.

The Short S.25 was a British flying boat patrol bomber built for the RAF. The aircraft got its name from the town of Sunderland in the north of England.  It was one of the most powerful and widely used flying boats used throughout the WW II  especially by various allied air forces including the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

More soon…. 😊

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