Secret Soviet mission in Scotland to fly the Albemarle

The Montrose Air Station’s Heritage Centre has a new exhibit about 24 Soviet pilots who traveled to Scotland to learn fly the Whitworth Armstrong Albemarle transport.

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By Bellamy W (F/O) Royal Air Force official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The exhibit opened on May 15 and some descendants of those pilots attended the ceremony.

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