After all there is only one replacement for a dak…..another dak, even after 80 years. I wonder how many remain in commercial service?

I can say 100% that the lanc will not be flying in public at the weekend, which is a shame as we were expecting her at the Blackbushe 75th. This week rubbish weather probably didn’t help with the possibility of test flights either.

Would appreciate any info on the Lanc’s return to flight, expecting it at an event this weekend!

From research I have done on one on the 110 wing squadrons in 1945-6 is very murky. 110 wing had operated scheduled flights from 1945 to Naples, Paris, Brussels, Warsaw, Athens, Berlin, and the Channel islands, among others. From January 1st 1946 these were operated on behalf of the European Division of BOAC , which of course became BEA. The reason was the delay in acquiring enough Dakotas. The RAF lend-lease daks could not be used by BOAC as part of the agreement, so there was a delay in purchasing the aircraft. Getting back on track they are some very interesting photos at Lisbon. CS-TDA was delivered from USAAF stocks the former 42-100930, clearly it retained us US camo for a while.

In deed, although I think that anybody who ever went to Mildenhall can forgive me for queuing for ,probably, my third burger! We don’t get catering like that any more, sadly.

That DH-80 is interesting. Looking at Air Britain’s DH-80 file there are not many candidates even of Portuguese registration
cN 2040 ex G-ABCX Regd in Portuguese Angola as CR-HAA .38 to Dr AntonioVideira; named “Talvez”. [Also reported as owned .38 by Adelino Amaral]. Regd CR-LAH. Crashed.
2235 To Club Aereo de Quelimane, Mozambique with CofA 3483 issued 2.6.32 (but no such aero club at time – probably to local resident). Regd CR-MAE .32.

Of course these lists could include Portuguese overseas colonies? There were several DH80’s involved in the Spanish Civil war but look to be out of use by 1940. Of course it could also be a wrong id?

I would also say a non flying accident as have not heard of LAC1 ranks etc on air crew duties, unless they were part of a working party flying somewhere?