foresterab Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Few from Canada...mind you many were bush plane outfits so not well known. I've got photos of most of these except for the Junkers which IIRC was in Quebec before being sent to England in 1939 for the RAF to compare specs on. Barkley Grow Beechcraft Model 18 (Expeditor) Fairchild FC-2 Fairchild 71 Fairchild Universal Curtiss Robin Noorduynn Norseman Junkers Tri-motor Cheers, foresterab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshot Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 The first DC-3 variants operated on BOAC routes (Lisbon,by KLM crews) were the KLM escapees in 1940 which had Wright engines and starboard pax doors , arrived in neutrality orange , then camouflaged with British civil registrations (there was one DC-2 with them). BOAC started getting lend-lease Dakotas (C-47 double portside doors) in 1943. Camouflaged initially, they started stripping them around 1945 Dutch D C 3's, Schiphol, early 1940. by Etienne du Plessis, on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/8270787@N07/16476630568/in/album-72157605269786717/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/albums/72157624029292187 http://www.famgus.se/Postcards/Aviation/Airports/FAPC-Airports-Sweden.html ....colour postcards 59, 607,608 show a NMF BOAC Dakota at Torslanda Gothenburg around 1945 A few of the aircraft used by BOAC in Africa \and on the Horseshoe route seemed to have escaped camouflaging The first BOAC emblem appeared on Empire boats Clifton and the rebuilt Corsair in 1940 and also on a NMF Lodestar in the Near East links and theorizing and graphics here: http://theflyingboatforum.forumlaunch.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=565 BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION AND QANTAS, 1940-1945.. © IWM (CNA 3627)IWM Non Commercial Licence 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshot Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 FAO Eric Mc and team Aer Lingus.....do you have a scan of the photo of EI-ACA?....It was delivered in overall orange via Shoreham, England just before Holland was invaded, later camouflaged topside with, I believe, orange undersides...operated between Dublin and Liverpool or Manchester where it lay damaged for months in WWII......little used overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshot Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 (edited) I'd forgotten this Pathe newsreel which features the orange Aer Lingus DC-3 and (briefly) one of their camouflaged Lockheed 14s (just before they were sold to Australia! Edited November 11, 2015 by longshot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Great bit of footage there. It shows the contacts that were regularly going on between the British and Irish governments during the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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