Originally Posted by
pax britanica
all that was left of the big props was the Kar air DC6 which rumbled gorgeously out at 7 every morning until LLHR stopped providing Avgas and the wonderful sound of four straining pistons was never heard again in anger at LHR
Almost. Air Atlantique popped in very occasionally with their DC6s, either doing cargo charters or subbing for somebody else, into the 2000s.
I too remember the Kar Air DC6, which routed home through Manchester. It was finally sold in early 1982, having done this trip several days a week to the end, and I remember it could be seen occasionally climbing over Manchester city centre at about 0900 on its last leg home as I walked in to work there in the early 1980s.