Avro York

Ah, The Avro 685 York, One of my favourite subjects, the example at Cosford was never Churchill’s aircraft, although for a time I was believing this ? Churchill’s aircraft was LV633 ‘ascalon’
A couple of photos of TS798 … G-AGNV … painted as MW100 at Cosford from c1977 (see my avitar)

And a very low quality photo of (I think) G-ANXN of Dan Air, which I bought at a show sometime in the 70’s, no credit to the owner, unless he / she should come forward ???

Although G-ANTK may be as common as a Ryanair 737 !!!!! she is special to me !!!!

Hi Moggy,

I think you will find that the Avro York (and the Ambassador) arrived from the Dan Air engineering base at Lasham during the mid 1980’s. The aircraft has never been painted at Churchill’s personal aircraft, although the York at Cosford these carried false marking in the past.
At about the same time Dan Air scraped their last Comet4 at Lasham, but what happened to their DC-3 ?

Cor, thank goodness that the Comet has only been scraped – like my car last week – and that it has not been scrapped!

Here is a picture of the finished airframe in DanAir colours found on Airliners.Net (remove if copyright is breached)

The Cosford York came from Skyfame and the Duxford York came from Lasham.

Look here for a brief regarding G-AGNV

Small snippet here on G-ANTK

Brian.

Just notoced on the post asking for pics it says that G-ANTK has been left off as it is common but it is on the list…was there another one that is supposed to be listed???

Garry

Not sure about coal dust but it rings a bell that it had been used to transport horses and they found a fair bit of very old and dried manure under the floor which must have caused much of the corrosion problems. I remember that the article which mentioned the horse manure speculated that the smell inside must have been pretty bad at times when the Air Scouts used the York as a bunk house because it hadn’t been out of service for long at that time and the manure must have been pretty fresh.

The Duxford York is on display in the superhanger in Dan Air colours I think . I looks finished to me and very good too . I also remember the coal and Berlin airlft story . I think it was early in the restoration process that they discovered a lot of coal dust under the floor .

Could still be some ‘nutty slack’ lurking in the murky recesses of Hastings TG528 too!

The Duxford York is on display in the superhanger in Dan Air colours I think . I looks finished to me and very good too . I also remember the coal and Berlin airlft story . I think it was early in the restoration process that they discovered a lot of coal dust under the floor .

The Dan Air DC 3 was sold to Euro Disney Paris. Later it was used in a film set somwhere else and served as a crash scene. The burnt/damaged hulk ended up in private hands in I think Poland.

I’ll see if I can find the write up I saw on it

I think it was the Cosford York ex Skyfame masquerading as MW100

****EDIT*** Didn’t take long

http://www.friendsofthedc3.20m.com/G-AMPP.htm

Garry

Here at www.danairremembered.t35.com we are working on the entire 200 aircraft Dan operated at one time or another – the DC3 have been completed….So you can find out the full story there. Just working now on the YORK – So if anyone has pictures of the following Aircraft –
G-AMUT
G-AMUV
G-ANTI
G-ANTK
G-ANXN
Please send them to [email]danairremembered@hotmail.co.uk[/email].

You will notice I left out G-ANTK – That’s because it’s as common as a Ryanir 737 800!
Thanks people
Adam

RE: Avro York

Hi Moggy,

I think you will find that the Avro York (and the Ambassador) arrived from the Dan Air engineering base at Lasham during the mid 1980’s. The aircraft has never been painted at Churchill’s personal aircraft, although the York at Cosford these carried false marking in the past.
At about the same time Dan Air scraped their last Comet4 at Lasham, but what happened to their DC-3 ?

RE: Avro York

There is a York at Duxford. It has been there for quite a while and is in the latter stages of an extensive rebuild.

It might well have been on the Berlin Airlift, of that I have no knowledge, but I would suggest that the bulk of the filth and grime came from its many years as an external exhibit at the Skyfame Museum at Staverton Gloucester Cheltenham Business Skyport or whatever it now calls itself.

I also seem to recall that as it was exhibited it was either pretending to be Winston Churchill’s personal transport, but had the wrong shaped windows, or was pretending to be a Transport Command aircraft but had the wrong shaped windows since it was actually Winston’s personal transport.

Ho Hum

Moggy

Very pretty it looks now too.