Friday evening at Monkton Priory Church Hall we were pleased to welcome John Evans who kindly agreed to talk to us about his exciting Sunderland Project which has won world wide recognition. In the early days of our Society we went on a visit to the Flying Boat Centre in Pembroke Dock which has been a great success story attracting over 21.000 visitors. The Sunderland Centre tells the Story of the Sunderland 79044 and the stories of some of the pilots who flew it.
John told us how it had all begain " In November 1940 there was a huge gale - one of the flying boats went missing, disappearing without trace when it came off its mooring. Happily noone was killed. But the T9044 was lost for decades - noone knew of its whereabouts. But at the end of the 1990s parts were recovered - at first its identity was not known - until August 2003 the engine was recovered. Then we knew it was a Sunderland!
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