[Adriano Baumgartner]

STIG,

From what I heard from the son of the Gomm owner, last November, when we met for a public presentation on the deeds of the late Wing Commander; he told me that his mother (first Female pilot on Parana State) and his father used it considerably to land on beaches and go to the farm that was apparently acquired by W/C Gomm (probably where he would pass his retreat after the war).

It seems that having some parts of wood, the machine suffered some kind of mechanical problem that could not be solved and was left on "the time". I understood that some spare parts were difficult to obtain....so it may have been later scrapped and sold as so (scrapp). This is really a pitty. I managed to find the same dates that you found. It may have "vanished" from the records, somewhere between 1970-72. We do have one photograph of this machine onto Gomm's biography.

I asked the Family to try to find the Property Documents, etc...related to this machine but it seems those were lost or not found either....so no further clues about it.

Humbly yours

Adriano