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Short Sunderland Mk. V (VB887 4X-X) of 230 Squadron on Lake Havel during the Berlin Airlift, 1948

Photographs, In Storage, P021269

This photograph shows the first Sunderland flying boat to land on Lake Havel during the Berlin Airlift, the first major confrontation between the East and the West during the Cold War.

Black and white photograph of an RAF Sunderland flying boat on Lake Havel in West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift, RAF Museum / u00a9 RAF Museum

Short Sunderland (NS-B) of 201 Squadron at RAF Beaulieu, September 1948

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/6289/10

This remarkable piece of flying was done during the station's Battle of Britain airshow.

A crowd watches a Sunderland flying boat make a low pass over an airfield, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Short Sunderland MR.5 (NS-D) of 201 Squadron delivering supplies during the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949

Photographs, In Storage, P031129

The Berlin Airlift was the first major confrontation between the East and the West during the Cold War. It was known as Operation 'Plainfare' by the British and Operation 'Vittles' by the Americans.

A Sunderland flying boat on a lake in Berlin, © Crown

Daily Express Air Pageant, 23 July 1949

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC78/64/4

Film taken at the Daily Express international air pageant, held at Gatwick Airport, shows Spitfire, Vampire, Stampe, Sunderland, Superfortress, Dakota, Cierva Skeeter and Pitts Special aircraft displaying over the airfield.

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