This is the DC-3 part of the service in 1956. With my professional timetabling hat on I think one or two flights are missed out, as the services are unbalanced. These errors used to happen quite a lot in the old days, goodness knows how they sold seats on the flights missed out !
Singapore 0630 ML406 A/C 1
Kuching 1005/1025
Sibu 1125
Labuan 1400/1420
Jesselton 1505
Singapore 0710 ML102 A/C 2
Malacca 0825
KL 0900/0915
Ipoh 1025
Taiping 1055
Penang 1120/1150 ML239
Medan 1200/1230 ML240
Penang 1440/1515 ML149
Ipoh 1615
KL 1710/1725
Malacca 1810
Singapore 1920
Singapore 0745 ML114 A/C 3
KL 0920/0935
Kuantan 1035/1100 ML115
KL 1200/1215
Singapore 1345
Singapore 1640 ML110
Malacca 1755
KL 1830/1850 ML109
Singapore 2000
Singapore 0800 ML108 A/C 4
KL 0935/0950
Penang 1105/1130 ML128
Kota Bahru 1245/1305 ML127
Penang 1420/1535 ML107
KL 1650/1705
Singapore 1835
KL 0800 ML121 A/C 5
Malacca 0845
Singapore 0955
Penang 0850 ML101 A/C 6
Taiping 0925
Ipoh 1000
KL 1055/1115
Singapore 1245
Singapore 1400 ML150
KL 1535/1550
Ipoh 1700
Penang 1740/1800 ML151
Singapore 2040
Sandakan 0745 ML411 A/C 7
Jesselton 0845/0905 ML407
Labuan 0950/1010
Sibu 1245
Kuching 1345/1405
Singapore 1645
7 aircraft required on schedules out of 11 in the fleet. About par for the course in those days.
Separately, about the Dan-Air Yorks:
Dan-Air came late to the Woomera contract, they started in 1959 with a
Bristol Freighter which took 12 days each way from Blackbushe. A surprising choice of aircraft for such an arduous route but there you go. Later they supplemented this with their Yorks. Before this the Yorks had been doing MoD freight charters from Britain to Singapore.
The York lost over India was possibly Dan-Air’s G-AMUV, which went down on 25 May 58, presumably on the Singapore contract.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19580525-0
and
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...datekey&page=1