Survivors
- ML814 a Mark III, converted to Mark V and then for passenger work is on display in Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight in Florida. It was bought in 1993, and flown across the Atlantic from the UK. According to the FoF website ML814 is the "last 4-engined passenger flying boat that can still fly." Formerly RNZAF NZ4108 – SH.974b MR.5 went to Airlines of New South Wales as VH-BRF "Islander" and was converted to a Sandringham in Australia. Airlines of New South Wales subsequently taken over by the major Australian airline Ansett and became Ansett Flying Boat Services and operated out of Rose Bay, Sydney, Australia until 1974.
In addition a few aircraft have been preserved as static museum exhibits.
- ML824 is on display at the RAF Museum Hendon, which acquired it in 1971.
- ML796 is on display at Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire.
- NJ203 RAF Short Sunderland IV/Seaford I S-45 NJ203. 1947 Converted to Short Solent 3 by Short Bros Belfast. 1949 BOAC G-AKNP “City of Cardiff". 1951 Trans Oceanic Airways of Australia as VH-TOB "Star of Papua". 1953 South Pacific Air Lines as N9946F "Isle of Tahiti". Last flew 1958. 1958 Howard Hughes - Hughes Tool Company. Since 1990 On display at the Oakland Aviation Museum, California, USA.
- NZ4111 located at the Chatham Islands. Serving with No. 5 Squadron 6 RNZAF March-11 April 1959, coded KN-D; it took part in a flypast to mark the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge on 30 May 1959. On 4 November 1959, it was badly damaged in an accident in the Chatham Islands when the Sunderland hit rocks in Te Whanga Lagoon while taxiing and sank in shallow water. Stripped of usable parts and written off RNZAF books on 9 December 1959. First of the RNZAF Mk.5 Sunderlands to be written off due to damage. Aircraft fuselage was broken into major components for use on a farm, the owners are now reassembling the hull and fuselage sections.
- NZ4112 - Hulk used by Hobsonville Yacht Club until 1970, then scrapped. Cockpit and front of aircraft transported to the Ferrymead Heritage Park for the Ferrymead Aeronautical Society Inc. Christchurch, New Zealand.
- NZ4115 is on display at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. A Major hangar building project was constructed 2010/11. As of 2012, NZ4115 remains outside while restoration continues. Restoration Hanger options are being considered for NZ4115 along with Short Bros sister Solent ZK-AMO.
Sunderland T9044 lies on the seabed off Pembroke Dock in Wales. The site is protected, and The Pembroke Dock Sunderland Preservation Trust aims to recover the aircraft in the future.
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