I have the Osprey Sunderland book. Here is a scan of the 95 Sqn. profile.

Yes Consul, you’re quite correct about RD867’s history. I thought this one was ex-Portuguese also. However, there was some issue about the RAF Museum getting all the available extant Beaufighters, but am not sure whether Peter Thomas had negotiated on their behalf or not.

Did somebody mention an Air Atlantique Viscount…..

….not part of our current plans, but in the future you never know. If the powers that distribute lottery money fancied another big aviation project after the Vulcan (you never know, you can but ask!) then maybe something like this that celebrates British civil aviation would fit the bill nicely!

Oh Will, please don’t tease! I hope my good friend Mike Collett is aware of this thread. I’m sure if he can’t get the Shackleton back, there’s a good chance of a Viscount :rolleyes:

It has a Continental 0-200. Here is my photo of it at Lee-on-Solent on 24 July 1971. You can see the glider-towing hook under the rear fuselage. It later became G-BBRN (I wonder why? :rolleyes: )

Seeing the Bristol Bulldog go over on its back when landing at the North Weald air show in the early 60’s!

I got to Farnborough on the Sunday in ’64 just in time to see it write itself off!

[QUOTE=Firebird]Didn’t the SAA Historic Flight operate a DC-6 as well some years ago….I can remember that making a European trip a few years back and it appeared at IAT-Fairford.

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Actually two DC-4s and a DC-3, but these are now operated independantly.
SAA has a large collection of airliners restored or being restored, a Dove, Lodestar,Starliner and looking for another DC-3, so are very interested in preserving their heritage.

I think BA initiated this part of the Museum by donating the aircraft as they were retired, along with several photos,artifacts and models in the hangar behind the Comet and Viscount. This obviously continued up to the arrival of the BAC One-Eleven, but then they seem to have lost interest in maintaining the aircraft and appear to have left them to the RAFM staff. In the current climate, I very much doubt if BA will put any more money into this collection like the RAFM is doing. Housing airliners in a museum undercover is a massive and expensive job and, alas, there are very few well looked after inside.
Those I can think of, off the top of my head, include NASM at Washington and at Dulles, Boeing’s Museum of Flight at Seattle, the Gulf Air Collection at Dubai and the odd airliner in large collections. It does not bode well for airliners permanently exposed to the British weather!