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aviation stories….part history, part experience

  • Miscellavia Home
    • Contact: miscellavia@outlook.com
  • British Dakotas
    • G-ALYF The first Pionair
    • G-AMWV – Queen of the Irish Sea
    • G-AMFV – The last Pionair
    • G-AJRY Executive Elegance
    • G-APBC – Caribbean Queen
  • Propliner Miscellania
    • Sagittair
      • Stephen Quinto: the road to Sagittair
      • Hubs, Spokes & Whistling Wheelbarrows – the way forwards.
      • Sagittair Fleet
      • Stephen Quinto’s new interests
    • The Biafran Airlift
      • Transavia DC-6 PH-TRA
      • Martinair DC-7s PH-DSL & PH-DSO
  • 233 Squadron RAF Operations
    • 233 Squadron European Operations- Early Days to September 44
      • Tonga- 233 Squadron’s first Glider Towing operation.
    • Operation Market Garden
    • Winter 1944/ 45 – Continental Operations between Market Garden and the Rhine Crossing.
    • Operation Varsity – WW2’s last great Airborne Operation
    • Surrender Days – The end of the war in Europe
    • Early Summer 1945- final European operations
    • 233 Squadron Far East operations
  • D-Day Squadron 2019 & 2024
    • Flabob Express N103NA
    • D-Day Doll N45366
    • Betsy’s Biscuit Bomber N47SJ
    • Virginia Ann N62CC
    • Miss Virginia N47E
    • Legend Airways Liberty N25641
    • Placid Lassie N74589
    • Pan-American/ CNAC N877MG
    • Tabitha May NC33611
    • D-Day Squadron 2024 at Prestwick
  • Spanish Dakotas
    • Scrap Yard Icon – Salamanca
    • Malaga Museum’s EC-CPO/ EC-ABC
      • Walk from Malaga Airport Terminal 3
  • 233 Squadron Dakota Histories
    • FZ681/ G-AGYZ
    • KG313/ G-AHCT
    • KG403/ N700CA
    • KG437/ G-AGYX
    • KG441/ G-AVPW
  • Runways & Relics
    • Santander Air Force Trainers
    • LANCASTER G-ASXX/ NX611 ‘JUST JANE’
  • Earls Colne Airfield History 1943 to 2024
    • The 94th Bomb Group at Earls Colne, 1943.
    • 323rd Bomb Group
    • The RAF Return to Earls Colne
    • Airfield Demilitarisation & Growth of Light Aviation
    • Modern Times at the Airstrip
  • Lisunov Li-2, Russia’s DC-3:
    • Lisunov Li-2 – Russia’s licence-built C-47
    • Li-2T 184 39102, Polish Air Force 027
    • Lisunov Li-2 HA-LIX: from Tashkent to Budapest.
    • Flying in Li-2 HA-LIX
    • Five Live Li-2s in Hungary
    • Li-2: Forty Facts & Factoids.
  • FZ647, 512 Squadron Veteran Dakota, Condensed RAF History & Civilian Career
    • FZ647: Expanded Military History

Runways & Relics

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