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[Seaplanes]

The Waco floatplane was a type YKS-7 c/n 4603. It was reg. 23.04.37 to Vest-Norges Flyveselskap AS in Bergen. Sold to the company AS Sönnico in Oslo 09.12.38. Taken by the Germans when they occupied Norway in April 1940. It was then painted white with red cross markings in order to bring a supply of medicare to from Oslo to Northern Norway then still under Norwegian/Allied control. The plane reached Bodø where the crew were arrested. Later it was brought to Tromsø. Sold to Sweden in July 1943 and reg. SE-ANG. In early 1945 the plane was on loan to the british intelligence organisation SIS' office in Stockholm for the purpose of bringing supplies to the listening post along the swedish-finnish border to overlook the German withdrawal from Finland. On the first mission, flown by Norwegian pilot and SIS employee, Halvor Björneby, the plane crashed on a frozen lake in Northern Sweden. Quite an interesting story.