I’m presently passing my Christmas eve looking at pictures of G-DAKK when with South Coast Airways. I’ve come across a couple of pictures of the aircraft in similar markings but with the French registration F-GEOM and Classic Airways titles.
Who was this airline and how long did they operate the Dak for and where from ?
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By: Olympus - 9th January 2016 at 21:41
Thank you so much for the information Viscount.
By: viscount - 28th December 2015 at 09:30
The researchers headed by Jennifer Gradidge that produced the 3 Volume, Air Britain examination of everything Dakota: ‘The first Seventy Years’ in 2006 list the following for c/no.9798 C-47A:
42-23936 del to USAAF 1 July 1943 and at Oran with 64 TCG 8 August 1943, 8th AF, 9th AF, OK-WDU regd 5 Sept 1947, OK-WHA, OK-WZB, 23936 French Navy c/s F-YGGC, then (I’ll copy in full detail):
F-GEOM Ste. Stellar Bourgenais, Nantes, regd 22 August 1985 – canx 26 July 1994
G-OFON reserved, but not taken up for Classic Airways 29 May 1993 – 06 June 1993
G-DAKK Air Atlantique regd 26 July 1994; then Lindholme Aircraft Ltd, Jersey regd 22 Dec 1994;South Coast Airways del 2 April 1996 and leased 24 April 1998; General Airlines Ltd t/a European Flyers regd 13 Oct 2000; General Technics Ltd, Reading regd 29 Jan 2002. Stored Popham, later at Lee-on-Solent Dec 02. (Book published 2006) These are mostly ‘paper’ dates , so reflect the sequence but not necessarily the dates and operators names applied.
Which is the detailed way of saying that the photo of F-GEOM in Classic Airways titles is before G-DAKK with South Coast Airways.
By: Bomberboy - 26th December 2015 at 00:30
For South Coast Airways, I think you’ll find Andrew & Geraldine Dixon will feature in there in some sort of significant way.
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December 25, 2015 at 10:37 pm