Over on the thread about the BA Cosford Collection, there’s some discussion about how it is oir is not reasonable for BA to support a heritage arm. Even I can come up with a few (as follows). What can other people add?
Qantas funds and runs the Qantas museum, Longreach;
Lufthansa runs their historic Flight, with a Bf108, Ju52/3m;
South African Airways operated (operates?) their Ju52/3m;
Air Canada (another troubled airline) was (and I believe is) supporting the operation of their Lockheed 10A CF-TCA…
‘Betsy’ the Cathay Pacific DC-3 on static display in Hong Kong
Singapore Airline’s 1990s restoration of an Airspeed Courier.
more please!
By: Kenneth - 13th January 2006 at 15:29
Lufthansa runs their historic Flight, with a Bf108, Ju52/3m;
The Lufhansa historic aircraft are operated by a separate foundation Lufthansa-Berlin Stiftung. See www.lufthansa-ju52.de for more info. They also operate a SAAB Safir (D-EBED) and a Chipmunk (D-ELLY; at least I think it’s theirs) in Lufthansa Training colours, and assisted in the failed recovery of the Condor in off Norway and in bringing the Ju 33 “Bremen” back to Bremen.
The German airline LTU sponsored the restoration to airworthy condition of a DH Dove and continues to support its operation.
By: ALBERT ROSS - 13th January 2006 at 13:52
[QUOTE=Firebird]Didn’t the SAA Historic Flight operate a DC-6 as well some years ago….I can remember that making a European trip a few years back and it appeared at IAT-Fairford.
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Actually two DC-4s and a DC-3, but these are now operated independantly.
SAA has a large collection of airliners restored or being restored, a Dove, Lodestar,Starliner and looking for another DC-3, so are very interested in preserving their heritage.
By: Cking - 13th January 2006 at 11:16
BA haven’t trained apprentices for years!! When an economic downturn occurs the first thing to go is training and the first bit of training to go is apprentices.
Various retired BA staff help out on projects around the country but they do this “off their own bat”.
Rgds Cking
By: Firebird - 13th January 2006 at 11:10
Didn’t the SAA Historic Flight operate a DC-6 as well some years ago….I can remember that making a European trip a few years back and it appeared at IAT-Fairford.
And didn’t Quantas assist Travolta in the operation of his ex-Quantas 707..?
By: Guzzineil - 13th January 2006 at 09:23
Delta seem quite in to the ‘heritage’ side of things.. didnt they assist with the resotration of the first aircraft that Delta had operated, a DC3, by a group of retired staff.. they may even own/operate the aircraft ?? ref the BA collection, I believe they used to send their apprentice engineers down there reasonable regularly to at least clean the aircraft/kick the tyres.. dont know if they’ve quietly dropped that out of the curriculum…
Neil.
By: kev35 - 13th January 2006 at 08:42
Air Atlantique – Two Dakota’s, Twin Pioneer, Dove……
That’s not including the other military and civil aircraft they operate. I suppose one could even count the DC-6’s, they appear at airshows.
Regards,
kev35
By: J31/32 - 13th January 2006 at 07:59
Icelandair Dakota? I can’t remember if they own it or not.
J man
By: Arm Waver - 13th January 2006 at 07:58
Gulf Air have a collection too do they not?
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