If you look at the current GE pix of Moi International you will see, to the SE, what appears to be an a/c “Graveyard”. There appears to be an almost complete C-47/Dakota, etc.
Two questions:
(a) anyone know which one it is?, and
(b) it was locations such as this that a significant number of the C-47/Dakotas used in the filming of the parachute scenes for A Bridge Too Far were cobbled together. Why? Were there not sufficient Daks floating around that could have been used? Or is, as usual, the answer “Money”?
Resmoroh
By: Marauder - 16th September 2007 at 09:42
A ‘ground-to-ground’ shot of Dakota ZK-BBJ. I had a look round this long term resident at Mombasa/MBA earlier in the year.
By: ALBERT ROSS - 13th September 2007 at 17:23
This is the image I have from Wilson Airport, though I might now get shot down in flames for saying its a Dak!
The location in question is ‘Moi’, as it’s well known that Nairobi-Wilson Airport is the home of Air Kenya (formerly Sunbird Aviation) who operated two Daks during the ’80s, so presume that is one of them. Next surprise will be a Google Earth picture of Coventry Airport?;)
By: Vulcan903 - 13th September 2007 at 16:14
This is the image I have from Wilson Airport, though I might now get shot down in flames for saying its a Dak!
By: ALBERT ROSS - 13th September 2007 at 16:02
There is also a Moi Air Base at Nairobi (formerly Eastleigh). Have just checked out Google Earth and can see Kenya Air Force Buffalos, Dash-8s and Dornier Skyservants there, but no Dak. I was there in 1987 and nearly got arrested trying to get permission to photograph a piston Provost on the main gate!!
If this reported Dak is in Kenya, it’s probably either one of the former Air Kenya machines, 5Y-BBN was one, or I wonder what happened to KN452 that was sold to the Kenya Police ion the late 60s?
By: Vulcan903 - 13th September 2007 at 11:46
I will be in Kenya over Christmas, and will down the coast so might get a look at whats there. I think there is a Dak at Wilson, NBO.
By: CSheppardholedi - 12th September 2007 at 19:29
How about this one, Harare, Zimobwe. Is that a Cranberry with the Daks?
There is another one out of frame to the NW on the tarmac.
By: Resmoroh - 12th September 2007 at 19:24
The Mombasa ‘Moi’ is the one – formerly the WW2 airfield at Port Reitz.
Resmoroh
By: RobAnt - 12th September 2007 at 19:17
You can find it on Google Earth (presumably what he means by “GE”) – Moi isn’t enough (the closes one is in Southern Norway, I think) but if you search for moi international, it goes to an airport halfway between Nairobi & Dar-Es-Salaam, on the East African coast, just outside Mombasa.
By: CSheppardholedi - 12th September 2007 at 19:16
Doesn’t everything boil down to how much it will cost?!?
Kenya, Mombassa, is this the one?
By: Newforest - 12th September 2007 at 19:03
Could you be a bit clearer as to which ‘Moi International’ you are referring to?:confused:
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