Air Atlantique Dakotas

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My first ‘historic’ trip… and unforgettable in every detail 🙂

Here’s G-AMPO at West Malling during an early Great Warbirds Air Display, possibly 1983. One of the ‘plywood cut-out’ B-17 profiles used during the filming of LWT’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’ can be seen in the background.

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G-AMSV is the Indian air force historic flight one. G-AMRA has replaced G-AMPZ with the German organisation. Both MSV and MRA still flyers. Not sure what has become of the remains of MPZ. G-AMHJ is at Metheringham (just moved from N Weald) apparently to be restored to fly. G-AMYJ is at Elvington. G-AMPY and G-ANAF still with Historic Airforce. G-APML was scrapped, nose apparently in a cafe in Kuwait. As previously stated on this thread, MPO is at Brize, MCA in Holland. Think that’s all of them.

Wow thats a heck of a list… Thanks! i didn’t realize there were so many.

A few of G-AMPO before, during and after, at Lyneham:

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G-AMSV is the Indian air force historic flight one. G-AMRA has replaced G-AMPZ with the German organisation. Both MSV and MRA still flyers. Not sure what has become of the remains of MPZ. G-AMHJ is at Metheringham (just moved from N Weald) apparently to be restored to fly. G-AMYJ is at Elvington. G-AMPY and G-ANAF still with Historic Airforce. G-APML was scrapped, nose apparently in a cafe in Kuwait. As previously stated on this thread, MPO is at Brize, MCA in Holland. Think that’s all of them.

Another pic of ex. G-AMCA in orange livery

Love that scheme. Wish they would paint a hurricane in the all orange scheme!

It was born out of necessity after a KLM DC-3 was attacked off the German coast on its scheduled flight to Sweden in September 1939. A Swedish passenger was killed and the aircraft took 65 hits but landed safely. After this all DC-3s on this line were painted bright orange with large lettering. The Netherlands at the time was neutral in the freshly started WW2.

Love that scheme. Wish they would paint a hurricane in the all orange scheme!

G-AMCA went to the Aviodrome museum at Lelystad (Netherlands). This was on outside display for some years fitted with the engines of DC-2 A30-14 representing a prewar KLM DC-3 in orange c/s. It is now on long-term loan to a theater company at Valkenburg as a backdrop for a musical that has been running for some years now (indoor).

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The one that got stuck under a motorway bridge wasnt ex air Atlantique was it?

If you are referring to the damage done while moving the first Dak to the musical venue (AMCA is the second, the replacement): no. Initially F-BAIF from another museum was moved over to act as a prop (no pun intended), but that hit a concrete safety barrier (not a bridge) in motorway works effectively writing off the aircraft. That has since been broken up for parts use.

The one that got stuck under a motorway bridge wasnt ex air Atlantique was it?

G-AMCA went to the Aviodrome museum at Lelystad (Netherlands). This was on outside display for some years fitted with the engines of DC-2 A30-14 representing a prewar KLM DC-3 in orange c/s. It is now on long-term loan to a theater company at Valkenburg as a backdrop for a musical that has been running for some years now (indoor).

Am looking forward to the progress on the one at Metheringham

a litte off topic but did the Air Atlantique Daks all had different livery?

The first picture is G-AMRA in the Eastern Airways Scheme shortly after it was bought by Air Atlantic

The second is on of the schemes used. There was also a similar scheme with green in place of the blue

Eventually all the schemes were standardised

a litte off topic but did the Air Atlantique Daks all had different livery?

G-AMPO (KN566) has been preserved at Brize Norton since 1992

Oops never get a job as a typist as I should have put 2012

Arrived 16Sep12 according to W&W24

Thank you David. I knew it wasn’t at Brize since 1992 as I have pictures at Coventry still in 2000 and was definetly still at Lyneham in 2008.

G-AMPO (KN566) has been preserved at Brize Norton since 1992

Arrived 16Sep12 according to W&W24

G-AMPO (KN566) has been preserved at Brize Norton since 1992

G-AMPO was moved from Coventry to Lyneham 22th Sep 2001and painted as KN566 for use as a gate guard at Lyneham. Not sure what has happened to it since Lyneham closed ?