I am trying to find out a bit more about the Shell/Airwork operation in Ecuador
1937-1948 at Shell Mera if anyone can point me in the right direction please?
I am particularly interested in the identities of the fleet at the close in 1948.
The aircraft were:
3 x Grumman Goose Amphibians
2 x DC 3s
2 Bristol Freighters
2 Ford Trimotors
Any info would be useful though.
Many Thanks
OG
By: wieesso - 21st June 2009 at 17:05
From the book: Winged Shell by Hugh Scanlan
HC-AAM, Grumman Goose G.21A, cn 1048, 1942-50
By: wieesso - 20th June 2009 at 14:58
From the book: Winged Shell by Hugh Scanlan
The Shell Company of Ecuador Ltd.
late 1930s
“Then a site was identified for a rough airstrip 750yards long on the banks of the Pastaza River, at a village called Mera.”
“Shell Mera, for example, must have been an awful place, the best of a bad lot. There was one way in, and one way out, through the pass to the east. If the weather clamped, which it did in minutes half-a-dozen times everey day, there was barely room to circle between the mountains for height.”
“The take-over by Airwork at the beginning of 1947 was prefaced by a deplorable accident involving one of the Grummans.”
HC-SBB Grumman Goose
HC-SBL
HC-SBV
HC-SBX
HC-SBY
HC-SBR Douglas DC3
HC-SBS
HC-SBM Bristol 170 MkI
HC-SBN
HC-SBU Bristol 170 MkII
HC-SBD Ford Trimotor
HC-SBC
HC-SBI
HC-SBJ
HC-SBK
HC-SBQ
Martin
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June 20, 2009 at 1:10 pm