A SERIES OF PICTURES OF INTERESTING AIRCRAFT, SOME WELL-KNOWN, OTHERS LESS FAMOUS. SELECTION IS FAIRLY RANDOM ALTHOUGH A THREAD LINKS THE SUBJECTS AND THERE ARE CROSS-REFERENCES TO OTHER LINKS ON THE WEBSITE.
CONTINUING WITH FLOATPLANES, CESSNA 172F G-DRAM WAS SEEN AT THE ANNUAL AYR FESTIVAL OF FLIGHT IN 2025.
G-DRAM IS BASED AT PRESTWICK AIRPORT IN SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND. THE AYRSHIRE AIRFIELD OFTEN HOSTS INTERESTING AIRCRAFT OWING TO ITS FUNCTION AS A MAJOR FREIGHT HUB AS WELL AS IT BEING THE GATEWAY FOR ATLANTIC CROSSINGS. IN 2019 TEN C-47s OF THE D-DAY SQUADRON VISITED PRESTWICK EN ROUTE FROM THE USA TO DUXFORD FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE NORMANDY LANDINGS. PLACID LASSIE WAS ONE OF THOSE C-47s AND, FIVE YEARS LATER, SHE RETURNED TO PRESTWICK PRIOR TO THE 80th. ANNIVERSARY OF OPERATION OVERLORD.
THE 2019 GATHERING OF C-47s, DC-3s AND AN Li-2 AT DUXFORD COMMEMORATED THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1944 OPERATION OVERLORD NORMANDY LANDINGS IN FINE STYLE. AS WELL AS THE HUGE COLLECTION OF C-47s, DUXFORD ALSO HOSTED MANY OTHER HISTORIC VISITORS: HARVARDS, C-45 EXPEDITORS, DRAGON RAPIDES, TIGER MOTHS AND B-17 ‘SALLY B’ TO NAME BUT A FEW. THE NEXT PHOTO DOCUMENTS D-DAY SQUADRON’S EXCELLENT DAKOTA ‘FLABOB EXPRESS’ ALONGSIDE DRAGON RAPIDE G-AKIF.
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