The above aircraft was leased from Aviation Traders and flew over 430 sorties on the Berlin Airlift, lve been trying to find it’s original RAF serial number but to no avail, the Halifax was delivered to Aviation Traders in July 1948 and leased to Bond Air Services and after service was broken up in July 1951. This information came from the excellent Southend Airport website. Is there any other source I could use please
By: Lynx815 - 5th July 2020 at 09:34
The CAA’s data held on G-AHDS:
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/…
By: Brandisi - 3rd July 2020 at 12:40
Hello Richard thankyou for the information, I had omitted a letter the correct serial was G A H D S.
By: pogno - 2nd July 2020 at 14:22
Hello Brandisi
You are missing a letter from the registration but assuming the G-AHD part is correct it comes in a batch originally sold to BOAC in 1946 then sold on to Aviation Traders in 1948.
HDL was RAF PP224
HDM was RAF PP228
HDN was RAF PP234
HDO was RAF PP236
HDP was RAF PP268
HDR—————-269
HDS —————-277
HDT —————-308
HDU—————-310
HDV —————-314
HDW—————-315
HDX—————–316
Richard
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July 2, 2020 at 1:55 pm