CF-BXO
Supermarine Stranraer
This image came
from the vast Jennifer Gradidge collection. If the actual
photographer will
contact me, I
will ensure source credit. This Stranraer was one of 14
civilianized RCAF
machines after WW II and languished at
Sea Island Airport, Vancouver for many years
before being rescued and added to the
RAF Museum collection at Hendon, where it now
reposes.
It was one of the Queen Charlotte Airlines craft which plied the routes
between
Vancouver Island and the mainland in the
1940s. Johan Visschedijk has a nice thumbnail
history of the Canadian Stranraers at:
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/HistoryBriefs/SupermarineStranraer.htm