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Northrop N-3PB

Postby longshot » Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:48 pm

A neatly proportioned floatplane IMHO
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Re: Northrop N-3PB

Postby dogsbody » Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:13 pm

Agreed!

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Re: Northrop N-3PB

Postby longshot » Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:31 am

Wow, colour!! Top one looks possibly colourized? but the lower one looks definitely 'Kodachrome' and the middle one looks genuine and 'untouched'
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Re: Northrop N-3PB

Postby dogsbody » Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:52 pm

The top one is colourized. The last one is a restoration in Norway.



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Re: Northrop N-3PB

Postby dogsbody » Thu Sep 17, 2020 5:00 pm

Found this colourized photo on Facebook yesterday. This guy does some nice work.

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Re: Northrop N-3PB

Postby DavidLegg » Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:32 am

dogsbody wrote:The top one is colourized. The last one is a restoration in Norway. Chris


That last photo is taken at Reykjavik Airport.
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Re: Northrop N-3PB

Postby dogsbody » Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:16 pm

DavidLegg wrote:
dogsbody wrote:The top one is colourized. The last one is a restoration in Norway. Chris


That last photo is taken at Reykjavik Airport.




Thanks, David. I didn't know where it was from. I've had it for a number of years. After posting it here, I GOOGLED restored one and Oslo came up. I thought it was the same aircraft.



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Re: Northrop N-3PB

Postby DavidLegg » Sat Sep 26, 2020 6:00 pm

It is the same aircraft but it was recovered and restored (and photographed after restoration) in Iceland before going to Oslo. My great friend, the late Ragnar Ragnarsson was instrumental in the recovery and restoration project.
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