'In late May and early June 1950, Caledonia made two flood relief flights to Winnipeg, Canada... After the floods abated, the aircraft was opened to the public, and 6000 people toured the aircraft.' Information from Johan Visschedijk. Photo by: Hugh Allan / University of Winnipeg Archives

BOAC's first Stratocruiser above the clouds. Only 56 Stratocruisers were built, including six for BOAC. Photo from: BOAC

Because of the height measuring pole, the photo is assumed taken at Felixstowe where Caledonia was subjected to airworthiness trials at MAEE in the indicated period.

The aircraft was flipped over in windstorm whilst it was moored at Rose Bay on 12-08-2019. The dismantled airframe was exported to Canada and was last noted stored at Campbell River, BC., in January 2020, however, the registration C-GSBN was allocated to it on 30 November 2023 so presumably restoration is underway. The registration VH-AAM is now carried by a Tecnam P-2008. (With thanks to DHC-2. com).

Caledonia made Imperial Airways' first survey flight across the North Atlantic, via Foynes in Ireland and Botwood in Newfoundland to Montreal and New York. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

This is the second 757 for the new Air Scotland and it arrived at Glasgow on the 28th of March in late afternoon.

Coasting to a stop at the Sydney Seaplanes terminal, Rose Bay. This Beaver was built in 1961 and delivered to the Ghana Air Force, registered G-213. It seems to have made its way to the USA around 1974, being civil registered as N37772. In 1976 it came to Australia, being re-registered as VH-IMR on 17 September that year. It was later re-registered again as VH-AAM(3) on 13 April 1992 and named 'Caledonia' after one of the old Empire flying boats that used to operate out of Rose Bay.