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[Dave Ed]

Great anecdote Hico-p.

Don't remember seeing it before. Only had four ferry flight on the site. Is this one of yours?

FERRY FLIGHT - Wessex 60.
UK TO AUSTRALIA.
8th - 29th June, 1969.

Pilots: Mr A.English and Mr. I.A.E. Clark



On the 7th June, 1969 Wessex 60, G-AWXX left Redhill Aerodrome for Gatwick Airport to enable customs clearance. The following day it departed on a three week ferry flight to Australia.

After 43 stops enroute it arrived at Broome, Western Australia, on 29th June from where it was flown to Point Sampson. It had covered a distance of 11,164 miles with total flying time of 97 hours 30minutes.

From the envelope images below the routing can be seen as follows:
Redhill, Gatwick, Lyon, Nice, Naples, Brindisi, Athens, Rhodes, Nicosia, Beirut, Das Island, Dubai, Karachi, Ahmadabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Calcutta, Akyab, Rangoon, Mergui, Phuket, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Palembang, Djakarta, Surabaya, Waingapu, Kupang, Broome and Point Sampson.