Photos of Hastings TG 503

There’s a pic of her on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Handley-Page-Hastings-TG503-Kodachrome-Original-slide_W0QQitemZ270252673172QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item270252673172&_trkparms=72%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Hello!

I am very interested in these photos of TG 503! Would it be possible to scans or copies?
Best regards,

Hello; I will scan these and send to you. Please check your Private Messages for information on emails.
I have been working on projects with Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (formerly Museum fur Werkher und Technik) for about 20 years, I once sent them eight TONS of original WWI German aircraft parts..and some rare engines. Their new aviation building is amazing!

photos TG 503

Here is 503 in 1948, in “Negombo”? The reg.# is clearly readable on the high res from this negative. (Just aft of the open dooor, below the centerline) I have approx 250 Hastings negs, with about 12 of 503. The other negs include two from the 1960s, and a bunch from the 1970s. I also have scanned a neg of 503 from 1967, BCBS, if interested. That one has paint scheme similar to one already posted above of 528.

Hello!

I am very interested in these photos of TG 503! Would it be possible to scans or copies?
Best regards,

TG 503

hello!

Thank you for your help! And sorry that I didn’t answer earlier but we were very busy with the ceremonies for 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift!

Best regards,
Uta Birkemeyer

no worries Barnstormer, I’m not very well travelled but I’m been there s’all 🙂

Thanks for looking for the Hudson pic – much appreciated- she’s an elusive bird it seems….

All t best

TT

Thanks, TT;
I’m embarrassed to say, I could only think of “Mogambo” the 1953 Clark Gable movie set in Kenya. 😮
But, then, we come here to learn, don’t we?

By the way, I already looked for your photos in my sets of Lockheed Hudson negatives, with no luck for CF-CRM.
(Closest I came was CF-CRG and CF-CRJ)

Here is 503 in 1948, in “Negombo”? The reg.# is clearly readable on the high res from this negative. (Just aft of the open dooor, below the centerline) I have approx 250 Hastings negs, with about 12 of 503. The other negs include two from the 1960s, and a bunch from the 1970s. I also have scanned a neg of 503 from 1967, BCBS, if interested. That one has paint scheme similar to one already posted above of 528.

Negombo is in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) mate – hope that helps!

TT

Thanks very much for that shot, JohnF is a member of the RAF Forum and worked on 51 Squadron [Squirrel Sqn] and the Hastings that accompanied the Comet and two Canberras [at the time JF ws on the squadron] was ICENI TG530.

I also worked on this when it used to pass through El Adem, Libya when the Squadron flew many surreptitious flights.

PM on its way

Hi John; I hope this brings a smile to his face. Here is TG530. Where and when did your associate work on this one? Which Sqn?
Just send me a regular email address via the contact email at my website which is in the signature below, and I shall be happy to email back, with a high resolution image that will make a nice print. (“TG 530” clearly readable in the high res version.) * without the light gray watermark..

Barnstormer

Would you per chance have a photo of TG530 as an associate has been searching for a copy from the days he worked on and flew in that aircraft

Here is 503 in 1948, in “Negombo”? The reg.# is clearly readable on the high res from this negative. (Just aft of the open dooor, below the centerline) I have approx 250 Hastings negs, with about 12 of 503. The other negs include two from the 1960s, and a bunch from the 1970s. I also have scanned a neg of 503 from 1967, BCBS, if interested. That one has paint scheme similar to one already posted above of 528.

Uta

I haven’t a photo of 503 in its original colour scheme, but much work was performed on her sister 528 a couple of years ago at The IWM Duxford. This is what 528 looked like during the Berlin Airlift on the time scale you are looking for if this is any use.

I took this picture on November 11th 2007