Safdarjung in the 1980s
I used to be in Delhi connected with my work in the 1980s at the All India Institute for Medical Science, not far from Safdarjung, so I often went past it and stopped by to visit a couple of times.
A few of the aircraft I saw there in December 1980/January 1981 were:
VT-DYP Agusta Bell 206A
VT-GCF AS1 (cn TC9)
VT-GDY ASK13
VT-DCU Auster 3 or 5
VT-ECL Basant II
VT-ECW Basant II
VT-ECZ Basant II
VT-EDG Basant II
VT-EDH Basant II
VT-EDI Basant II
VT-EEA Basant II
VT-EEC Basant II
VT-EEN Basant II
VT-DNT Beaver Dismantled (cn 1470)
VT-DNU Beaver Dismantled (cn 1475)
VT-DIV Beaver I
VT-DRQ Beaver III (cn 1520)
VT-DRR Beaver III (cn 1521)
VT-DUZ Bell 47G5
VT-DZO Bell 47G5
VT-EAS Bell 47G5
VT-EBM Bell 47G5
VT-GCD Bocian SZD9bis
VT-CZK Bonanza A35
VT-DAC Bonanza A35
VT-CAO Bonanza A35
VT-AUT C47A (42-93771, cn 13720)
VT-CEO C47B
VT-DGN C47A “Border Security Force”
VT-GCC IT-G3 Wreck
VT-GDF IT-G3
VT-GBU Ka7
VT-DUV Pawnee 235B
VT-DUW Pawnee 235B
VT-DZU Pawnee 235C
VT-EBH Pawnee 260C
VT-EBI Pawnee 260C
VT-GBP RG1
VT-GCA RG1
VT-GCG T21B (cn662)
VT-EDP Utva 65 Privrednik
VT-EDQ Utva 65 Privrednik
Quite a few gliders (in the VT-Gxx range) were there, some of which flew at weekends.
Leopard Moth VT-AKH was hanging in the clubhouse.
Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, died when he crashed in a Delhi Flying Club Pitts S2 from Sandarjung in 1980, just before my first visit!
Laurence
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