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.
THE D-DAY COMMEMORATION OF 2019 BROUGHT A WHOLE FLEET OF DAKOTAS (PLUS AN LI-2) TO DUXFORD PRIOR TO CROSS-CHANNEL FLIGHTS TO NORMANDY TO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF OPERATION OVERLORD, 1944. THE DAKOTAS HAD A LARGE SUPPORTING CAST OF WW2 VETERANS INCLUDING RAPIDE G-AKIF (ABOVE), TIGER MOTHS, A C-45 EXPEDITOR AND A HARVARD TRAINER. WHILE PRODUCTION NUMBERS FOR C-47s ARE VERY EXTENSIVE, THE HARVARD WAS EVEN MORE PROLIFIC – INDEED IT IS PROBABLY CLOSE TO JOINING THE TOP TEN MOST-PRODUCED AIRCRAFT EVER.
SNAPSHOT 5 WAS ALSO TAKEN AT DUXFORD ON JUNE 6TH 2019 AND FEATURES CANADIAN-BUILT HARVARD G-BDAM.
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