This folder contains a repaint for the Noorduyn Norseman by BigRadials, in the colors of Noorduyn Norseman VH-GSA of Gibbes Sepik Airways Ltd. Delivered to the USAAF as aircraft No.43-5259 on November 24, 2021 but transferred via Lend-Lease to the Royal Australian Air Force. Flown to Newark, New Jersey on November 25 for shipment to Australia. Assigned to the No, 1 Communications Unit, Essendon, Vic. And coded as A71-6. Transferred to the Care and Maintenance Unit, Tocumwal in February 1946 and placed in storage. Later sold to Gibbes-Sepik Airways Ltd., Port Moresby, Papau and registered as VH-GSA. Crashed while landing at Mount Hagan, New Guinea following engine failure on October 4, 1956. Aircraft was repaired. It crashed in a thunderstorm 6 miles north of Mendi, New Guinea on July 8, 1958. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom.
Mountainair
As a kid I lived in the Sepik district and GSA was our connection to Wewak. Flew in the Norseman many times (occasionally scary) but the pilots were real legends!
Cheers
Bernd1151
Great livery, Jan!! I had hoped you would do this one, thanks a lot.