Aircraft Photo of G-ABFC | Short S-17 Kent | Imperial Airways | AirHistory.net #336887
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:G-ABFC
Aircraft Original Type:Short S-17 Kent
Aircraft Generic Type:Short S-17 Kent
Aircraft Version:Short S-17 Kent
C/n (msn):S.760
Operator Titles:(Imperial Airways)
Aircraft Name:Satyrus
Location
Location:In Flight
Country:Not known
 
Photo Date:2 May 1931 to 30 June 1938
Photo from:Peter de Jong Collection
Photo ID: 336887
Photo Comment

Only three examples were built of the four-engined Short Kent, needed because the three-engined Calcutta could not effectively fly from Crete to Alexandria without a stop in Italian colonial territory in Tobruk. Photo by: Charles E Brown

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