Short Empire Flying Boats :

I like flying boats and was excited to visit the Foynes Flying boat Museum in the west of Ireland a few years back. It tells the story of the first transatlantic services made from Ireland to the States. Apparantly Irish Coffee was invented to warm up passengers disembarking after a cold, damp crossing. Strangely, though, and disappointingly, the Flying Boat Museum had no flying boats...

Edwin, Austria has an airbus A320 stamp for Austrian Airlines issued in 2008.

See this thread:
https://goscf.com/t/8917

Not as nice as one would hope for, but it has an air of mystery.

Stampgal - there are now very few of these old flying boats in existence. None of the Short Empires survived the 1950s. There are a few Sunderlands, and its derivatives, the Solent and Sandringham:

3 in the UK: 1 at Hendon, 1 at Duxford, 1 in Southampton
2 in USA: 1 at Polk City, Florida, 1 in Oakland, California
1 in France: At Le Bourget (currently being extensively restored)
2 in New Zealand: at MOTAT Museum, Auckland, New Zealand

The last of the Empire boats is a story of so close but so far from preservation.
On retiremant from the Poole-Athens-Cairo BOAC service in 1947 it was flown to Rochester and was owned by F.J. Cork and later Buchan Marine Services. It was moored outside the old Shorts works and kept servicable. The plan was to use her on flying boat cruises. But in October 1953 it was sold to F.C. Bettison and was towed to the Aquilla base at Hamble for overhaul. Sadly this ended in a storm in May 1954 when it was sunk at Harty Ferry on the Hamble.

Well, that would explain it, Peterh!
Sad to lose so many, with so much history behind them.

Thanks all, for contributions, fantastic videos
and information.

Edwin: there is an Airbus 320 featured on a Moldova stamp.

I don't know if this Tuvalu issue of 1980 is considered a "short" flying boat, but it is a Sunderland.

A later model BeeSee,
but still a great stamp and aircraft, landing in choppy seas!
Thanks for posting.

Thanks! Puzzler and 22Crows for the Airbus 320 links, I wanted a full view like 22crows had listed now I just need to find the picture bigger, so I can cut out just the 320 for my avatar.

The "COOEE" How Australian is that! :)