Originally Posted by
captain.speaking
..... I've just been looking at the DA scheduled services for 1962, and in the timetable there is a three times weekly extension of the Bristol/Cardiff/Liverpool/Newcastle service to Dundee and Glasgow. Dundee is shown as being served via "HMS Condor, Arbroath" !
Does anyone know if this ever actually came about ?
Let's see what The Oracle (ie Tony Merton-Jones' book "British Independent Airlines") says :
"On July 3 1961 Dakotas took over the Plymouth-Cardiff-Bristol-Liverpool-Newcastle service, and on July 7 G-AMSS inaugurated a Liverpool-Newcastle-Dundee route. Dan-Air used Arbroath as its Dundee terminal airport ...... however, in July 1962 Dan-Air announced that due to lack of support, the services were to be severely pruned".
Looking on Google Earth at the still-extant runway at HMS Condor, I'm sure you could still put a Dakota down there. In those days it was a Fleet Air Arm base.