Forgotten Aircraft: The Northrop N-3PB Nomad
Documentary (2007)
Production:
Bomberguy Aviation History
Short documentary on the Northrop N-3PB Nomad, a single-engined American floatplane developed as an export model based on the earlier Northrop A-17 design.
Also from this series:
Forgotten Aircraft documentaries
Northrop N-3PB Nomad
Built to satisfy a Norwegian costal patrol requirement, it was instead deployed to Iceland after the invasion of Norway by Germany.
Northrop N-3PB Nomad
The Marinens flyvevesen /Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service operating as Royal Air Force Squadron no.330, flew the aircraft on anti-submarine and convoy escort duties out of Reykjavic, Iceland.
Northrop N-3PB Nomad
Northrop N-3PB Nomad
The last surviving N3-PB was salvaged from the Thjorsa River in Iceland after being submerged for 36 years.
The aircraft was fully restored by volunteers of the Western Museum of Flight in Hawthorne, California.
She is now on display in the Forsvarets flysamling Gardermoen/ Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection in Oslo.
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