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My father carried out the first flight of VH-INK on October 27th 1965 and flew it the following day.
There was a photo in Flight International of either "INJ" or "INK" on handover to Ansett. (Can never find the photo when you're looking for it - I'll keep looking).
Anyone know when it would have first flown before the ATL conversion? Just curious when it first got airborne as a DC-4. Presumably from Long Beach....
There was a photo in Flight International of either "INJ" or "INK" on handover to Ansett. (Can never find the photo when you're looking for it - I'll keep looking).
Anyone know when it would have first flown before the ATL conversion? Just curious when it first got airborne as a DC-4. Presumably from Long Beach....
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From an old Air-Britain history of the DC-4:
c/n 42994 Delivered to SAS/DNL as LN-IAE "Olav Viking" 24.6.46
To Japan Air Lines as JA-6012 Mikasa" 27.10.56
To Korean as HL-4003
To Ansett - ANA as VH-INK 22.4.64 after overhaul in Hong Kong
To Stansted 25.6.65 for conversion to ATL 98 Carvair (c/n 20)
Takes anorak off again!
P.S. The book also says that most were built in Santa Monica although some of the military C-54s were built in Chicago.
c/n 42994 Delivered to SAS/DNL as LN-IAE "Olav Viking" 24.6.46
To Japan Air Lines as JA-6012 Mikasa" 27.10.56
To Korean as HL-4003
To Ansett - ANA as VH-INK 22.4.64 after overhaul in Hong Kong
To Stansted 25.6.65 for conversion to ATL 98 Carvair (c/n 20)
Takes anorak off again!
P.S. The book also says that most were built in Santa Monica although some of the military C-54s were built in Chicago.
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Southend 1973.
Sorry about the poor quality. I was an ATCO there in '73 and did quite a few trips with BAF. The Carvair was an amazing aircraft. You could hold a party in the cockpit there was so much space behind the flight crew.
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This is what they looked like before people started bouncing them off the ground!!! all that hard work, no consideration some people .
I was at Stansted in the sixties !!!!!
how do you add a picture please
I was at Stansted in the sixties !!!!!
how do you add a picture please
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As a policeman in 1972 I knicked two males for stealing aviation fuel out of one of these aircraft at STN. The hangar I believe was TMAC and the a/c 'Fat Albert' or is the name my imagination.
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The book also says that most were built in Santa Monica although some of the military C-54s were built in Chicago.
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I checked this weekend and there is one parked on the airport at KGLE, (Gainesville Texas). It had a yellow stripe down the side.
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Thanks for the help with the picture posting I just hope it works otherwise this is going to look a bit daft.
This was taken 1961, when I worked for A.T.L. hangar 1 at Stansted
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...s/carvair5.jpg
This was taken 1961, when I worked for A.T.L. hangar 1 at Stansted
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...s/carvair5.jpg
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It seems that this Spring/Summer another Carvair book will be published.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.p...-0-7864-3670-5 has more details. The price isn't exactly cheap though!
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.p...-0-7864-3670-5 has more details. The price isn't exactly cheap though!
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For Kiwis they might remember her as former ZK-NWA which I flew with in 1979.
Some call them ugly but i love the old Carvairs.
Here's the Nationwide fleet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64194215@N00/2290856758/
Some call them ugly but i love the old Carvairs.
Here's the Nationwide fleet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64194215@N00/2290856758/
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Carvair book
I was, for a while, in correspondence with Patrick with respect some of BAF's Carvair operations. I did supply numerous photos, and copies of various chastising memos, regarding engines operation etc from Mike Keegan and information with regards G-AREK operations in the Gulf. Unfortunately I "disappeared" for a while, (No, not jail), and was unable to return his e-mails requesting permission to publish my input. He does have a lot of very good information from various sources and in that respect I would expect the book to be quite interesting.
Patrick, if you are by some remote chance reading this, contact me via PM, I do not have your e-mail address anymore................I can remember the first bit, it's after the @ that escapes my memory.
In fact I still have a genuine ATL-98a Carvair Flight manual, complete with C-54 tech manuals and Carvair Tech supplements. A fine aircraft.
Patrick, if you are by some remote chance reading this, contact me via PM, I do not have your e-mail address anymore................I can remember the first bit, it's after the @ that escapes my memory.
In fact I still have a genuine ATL-98a Carvair Flight manual, complete with C-54 tech manuals and Carvair Tech supplements. A fine aircraft.