The reconstruction of Gidsken Jakobsens aircraft, Saaski, “The Seagull”,  is being loaned to Narvik as part of the 50th jubilee celebrations of the Winter Festival week.

Narvik’s famous women pilot, is being celebrated with a exhibition of her life and the aircraft is a natural part of that. 

Halvor Nilsen and Ivan Kristiansen, from BLHF, have taken the aircraft apart and will accompany it on its journey north and re-assemble it in Narvik.

The aircraft is on loan as a small "thank you" because the people of Narvik has helped finance the project.

Nilsen and Kristiansen have been the main builders of the reconstruction of Gidskens plane. The original aircraft disappeared in Finland just before the 2^nd world war. A similar aircraft is displayed in the aviation museum in Helsingfors and this was used as a pattern for the reconstruction. This reconstruction took about 6 years to complete and became a part of the exhibition at the Norwegian Aviation Museum in 2004.