Thulin A (Blériot XI) No. 16Photographed in Svedino's Automobile and Aviation Museum, Ugglarp, Sweden on 28 October 2006.
This type of aircraft achieved world-wide fame in 1909 when Louis Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel. The Blériot XI was subsequently copied and licence-built by many different aircraft builders, among them the Thulin works at Landskrona, where this model was called the Thulin A. The company was called Aktiebolag Enoch Thulins Aeroplanfabrik (AETA). In Sweden the defence forces used Thulins, one in the Naval Air component and six by the Flying Company in the army. Civilian owners of this type included "the flying baron" Carl Cederström.
The Thulin A in the museum was built by AETA in Landskrona, from where it was supposed to be delivered to Denmark, but the order was cancelled and it went to a Swedish private owner, John Petterson of Viskafors, instead when AETA went bankrupt in the beginning of the 1920s. It remained with that family until the remains were sold to the museum in 2001. It is gradually being restored, with all-new wings and tailplane made in accordance with the original drawings, and using the same types of wood.
Picture added on 17 January 2011 at 09:03
