Catalina affair
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 Tp 79 Hugin at F 8 Barkarby in 1951 | |
| Incident summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | 13 June 1952 |
| Summary | Shot down |
| Place | East of Gotska Sandön 58°23.522′N 20°17.460′E / 58.392033°N 20.291000°ECoordinates: 58°23.522′N 20°17.460′E / 58.392033°N 20.291000°E[2] |
| Passengers | 0 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 8 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | DC-3A-360 Skytrain |
| Aircraft name | Hugin [3][4] |
| Airline/user | Swedish Air Force |
| Flew from | Stockholm Bromma Airport Stockholm, Sweden |
| Flying to | Stockholm Bromma Airport |
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| Incident summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | 16 June 1952 |
| Summary | Shot down |
| Place | East of Gotska Sandön |
| Passengers | 0 |
| Crew | 5 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Aircraft type | PBY-5 Catalina |
| Airline/user | Swedish Air Force |
| Flew from | F 2 Hägernäs[5] near Stockholm, Sweden |
| Flying to | F 2 Hägernäs[6] |
The Catalina affair (Swedish: Catalinaaffären) was a military confrontation and diplomatic crisis in June 1952 between the USSR and Sweden. It was during the Cold War. Soviet fighter aeroplanes shot down two Swedish Air Force aeroplanes over the Baltic Sea. Both aircrafts were found in 2003.
Catalina Affair Media
DC-3 wreckage exhibited at the Swedish Air Force Museum
Tp 47 Canso (Catalina) at the Swedish Air Force Museum
Memorial stone to the fallen crew at Galärvarvskyrkogården in Stockholm
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