JOHAN VISSCHEDIJK COLLECTION No. 6361. Short S.8/8 Rangoon (S1433 c/n S.757) Royal Air Force
Photograph from Flight, taken at Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 1934
This aircraft was first flown by Short's Chief Test Pilot John
Lankester Parker from the river Medway, Rochester, Medway, UK, on
September 24, 1930. In 1931 it joint 203 Squadron at Basra, Iraq,
eventually all six built Rangoons were stationed at Basra. In 1934,
S1433 and two other Rangoons flew to Australia to attend the Victorian
centenary celebrations at Melbourne. This photo was taken at one of
the stops enroute. The Rangoons were transferred to 210 Squadron at
Gibraltar in September 1935 and eventually withdrawn from use in July
1936. Five were scrapped, S1433 appeared on the civil register as
G-AEIM although for a short period as it was scrapped in 1938.
