These walk-around photos were taken at the RAF Museum London in Hendon in 2019. They show a Short Sunderland MR.5, serial ML824, coded NS-Z and displayed in the markings of No. 201 Squadron — one of the most important maritime patrol aircraft of the Second World War and the only surviving airworthy-standard Sunderland in the United Kingdom. Known to Luftwaffe crews as the "Flying Porcupine" for its formidable defensive armament, the Sunderland was the RAF's primary long-range maritime patrol flying boat throughout the war, hunting U-boats across the Atlantic, protecting convoys and carrying out air-sea rescue. It later served with distinction during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, landing on the Havel river to bring supplies into the city, and remained in RAF service until 1959. Built at Rochester in 1945, ML824 served with Nos. 201, 230 and 205 Squadrons before being sold to the French Navy as No. 53 in 1951, where it flew maritime patrol from Dakar in West Africa for several years. Returned to the UK in 1961 and eventually acquired by the RAF Museum, it was restored at RAF Seletar in Singapore before being flown back to Britain in 1971 — its last ever flight. It has been on display at Hendon since the museum opened in 1972, providing the structure for the museum café, with visitors able to eat and drink beneath its wings.