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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
SNAPSHOTS:
SNAPSHOT 1 – AIR TRACTOR AT-802 EC-LGY.
SNAPSHOT 2 – CESSNA FR172F G-DRAM
SNAPSHOT 3: C-47 Placid Lassie at Prestwick
SNAPSHOT 4 – DRAGON RAPIDE G-AKIF
SNAPSHOT 5 – HARVARD G-BDAM AT DUXFORD.
SNAPSHOT 6 – SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE HARVARD
SNAPSHOT 7 – SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE DAKOTA 6832
SNAPSHOT 8 – SAAF SHACKLETON 1719
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.
Runways & Relics
Santander Air Force Trainers
LANCASTER G-ASXX/ NX611 ‘JUST JANE’
FZ647, 512 Sqdn Dakota, RAF & Civilian History
FZ647: Expanded Military History
Channel Fever – Southend’s Airline.
COAT OF MANY COLOURS: Rumours of a shortage of paint & the airline history 1953-1959
When Jack met Jackie
PISTON PERFECTION: 1960 to 1964 – Channel reaches the peak of their piston airliner operations.
Aircrash 1962:
Golden Years -Channel’s Peak: 1964 to 1969
Decline and Fall 1969- 1972
The Final Dispersal – Sale of the assets, 1972
Business Plans & Strategies
SNAPSH0TS:
SNAPSHOT 9 – EKCO ELECTRONICS ANSON C19 G-AGPG.
SNAPSHOT 10 – AUTAIR DAKOTA III G-APPO.
SNAPSHOT 11 – HANDLEY PAGE’S DAKOTA G-ATBE
SNAPSH0TS:
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