The only Sunderlands I ever saw were the weekly ones up and down the W. coast between Bombay and Ceylon, carrying mail,
The father of a close friend of ours flew Sunderlands out of Ceylon. He died when she was fifteen so she didn't really have chance to find out much about what he did in the war. What would the Ceylon Sunderlands do in the main?
Kookabat: you can still fly into East Kirkby and it's a marvelous place to visit should you ever return to these shores. Winthorpe only closed to air traffic around eight years ago but the Newark Air Museum is still there and well worth a visit. Obviously Waddo is still an RAF base.