Interstate S-1A Cadet NC37360/LN-DAVPhotographed in the Forsvarets Flysamling at Gardermoen, near Oslo, Norway on 27 July 2006. This is a very rare aircraft.
The S-1A Cadet was produced by Interstate Manufacturing Co. in El Segundo, CA. between 1941 and 1943. The original S-1 was powered by a 50hp Continental engine, however, it was changed to a C-65 (A-65) after a few complaints of too little power.
This aircraft has constructor's number 203 and built in 1941. It was donated along with another Cadet by two Norwegians living in the USA to the Norwegian Training Camp called Little Norway in Canada. After being used for liaison flights both aircraft were crated in 1945 and shipped to Norway.
This one was allotted serial number 505 on arrival in Noprway and later transferred to the Norwegian Aero Club, becoming LN-DAV on 26 July 1946.
It crashed on 14 April 1952 while flying from the frozen Lågen river at Fåberg in Gulbrandsdal valley. It went into storage and was cancelled from the civil aircraft register on 15 March 1954. It was donated to the Norwegian Aviation Historical Society on 13 May 1970 who spent 5 years restring it to static display, and then gifted to the Armed Forces Museum for display as seen here.
Picture added on 24 February 2008
