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Cavalier was a Short Empire flying boat with the registration G-ADUU that had been launched on 21 November 1936 and delivered to Imperial Airways. [2] In 1937, Imperial Airways and Pan American World Airways had opened up a London-New York-Bermuda flying-boat passenger service. Imperial Airways used Cavalier on the route.
Thereafter Imperial Airways and Pan-American trans-oceanic flying boats had the upper surfaces of the wings painted with orange high visibility markings. 1 May 1939: Short Empire G-ADVD Challenger crashed in the Lumbo lagoon while attempting to land at Lumbo Airport , killing two of six on board.
22 November 1938 – British Airways Lockheed 14 G-AFGO crashed at Walton Bay near Portishead while on a test flight, two crew killed. [44] [45] 1939. 19 June – Short S.30 Empire flying boat G-AFCW Connemara of Imperial Airways burnt out and sank at Hythe, Hampshire during refuelling. Fire started on the refuelling barge and spread to the ...
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January 21 – The Imperial Airways Short Empire flying boat Cavalier, tail number G-ADUU, flying from Port Washington, New York, to Bermuda with 13 people on board, ditches and sinks in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of New York City after icing causes its engines to fail.
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