Originally Posted by
Planemike
This "Dak" was first registered to BOAC in November 1944 at Whitchurch. Did not pass to East African until October 49.: cannot find any details on its BOAC career.
BOAC in its first few postwar years used a sizeable Dakota fleet on a wide range of operations, not only from London but several were outstationed to run from points like Cairo or Aden. You could actually take one from London to Nairobi in 1948, changing planes at Cairo. Routes like London to Lagos on a Dakota, in 1948 three days each way and three times a week, would account for three, in fact likely four, aircraft on their own.