‘The aircraft of the 61st TCG participated using C-54 Skymasters to ferry coal, flour, and other cargo into West Berlin.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein-Main_Air_Base
‘Further afield at Kaufbeuren Air Base in Bavaria, was
the 60st Troop Carrier Group consisting of the 10th, 11th, and 12th Troop
Carrier Squadrons. Nominally, these units totaled ninety-six C-47s.’
https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/ Publications/fulltext/To_Save_a_City.pdf
Maybe this is of any help to your investigations.
Martin
Just to begin with
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/money_08.html
http://www.sevenoneinternational.com/fiction/eventsunlimited/content/00841/
http://www.krohm.com/tewsp/jc/jc5d.htm
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/BERLIN_A/BAPIC_27.HTM
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/BERLIN_A/BAPI_125.HTM
Martin
Edit. ‘The Berlin Airlift required 308 aircraft of the C-47 vintage, the military equivalent of the DC-3. Seventeen C-5s could have completed the same operation, according to a fact sheet on Dover AFB’s Web site.’
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/t/53/9/0/8
Found a pic of G-AJAZ in an old ebay file from 2006. It originates in
http://www.rls.org.uk/database/results.php?field=where&searchterm=%22Prestwick+Airport%22&searchdb=scran
Martin
Edit. …small but… 😉
Maybe this could be of any help (L7180):
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/image_bank/dig_image.cfm?Lang=e&id=20864
or (L7181)
http://www.historicaircraftcollection.ltd.uk/hind/hind_02.html
Martin
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitregistry/spitfire-sl611.html
Have you already tried this address:
Supermarine Aero Engineering LTD
Mitchell Works, Steventon Place,
Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire, ST6 4AS
Tel No. 01782811344
Martin
http://www.aviationimages.net/united_kingdom_list.htm
They mention these particular planes:
F. Gannet AEW.3 XL474 / 762-LM light/dark gray T ’72 (hmc)
F. Gannet AEW.3 XL479 / 762-LM light/dark gray ‘7? (hmc)
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1022455/
Martin
Have some queries started. No results so far.
Martin
http://www.tardis.myzen.co.uk/Aeropix/British%20Lights.html
G-BGMW / G-FORK
Nope. 😉 Where’d you get that ‘W’ from? Looks like G-EBOV to me…
accepted 😮
Martin
That’s Bert Hinkler’s Avro Avian, now in the Queensland Museum. A miscatalogue, I think.
GINFO: G-EBWV DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT CO LTD DH60X MOTH 😉
Here is a pic: Amy Johnson in Ceduna with G-EBWV 1932 :confused:
http://143.216.21.253/mpcimg/52900/B52773.htm
Martin
Great news dh83, that would make VH-BMC ex G-BMPN and VH-OPI ex G-BOPN.
G-ANPK You have a P.M.
Maybe two on one pic!
The one in front is VH-BMC, June 9, 2006 at Hoxton
But look behind the red one – there is a yellow Optica….
http://www.myaviation.net/search/photo_search.php?id=00733688&size=large
Martin
John Edgeley designed a glider the EA9 Optimist, performed very well.
Dont know how many more than a prototype have been built.
http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ex7053/EA9info.htm
Design work on the EA9 glider kit started at EAL in the early 1990’s. Three kits were sold.
Martin