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  1. I think these allover repainted C-47s aren't connected with the Berlin Airlift....I think these are smartened up semi-V.I.P machines (mostly around 1950, only the Prague Military Air Attaches was 1948)...the USAF base commander at RAF Lakenheath had this one with yellow painted engine cowls according to an eye-witness memory
  2. Are the Berlin Airlift C-47s freshly painted like these examples or are their paint jobs faded relics of WWII schemes? I could upload your father's photos to ABPIC for you if you wish, they sound interesting.
  3. Les Vowles photographed some USAF C-47s at Northolt and Bovingdon between 1948 and 1950 which had evidently been repainted drab allover (he recalls them as green with yellow lettering). The Prague Military Air Attache's C-47 was in 1948(lower pic), the others in 1950. This was when bare metal was the standard finish. Of interest, possibly, to modellers? https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/search?type=C-47&date_taken=&photographer=Les+Vowles&information=drab&tag_fields=["type"]
  4. 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!
  5. 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.
  6. 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
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