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Old 5th Oct 2014, 19:11
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The Flying Pram
 
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I was one of a party who chartered a Shorts 360 to fly from Norwich to the Fairford Airshow in 1996. On the return journey I managed to bag the jump seat (before such things were banned). We flew right over Enstone, and I was able to look down at the sorry remains of C-FDFC just off the side of the runway.

There was also a Bristol Freighter at Ardmore NZ, when I visited in 1997. It was beside the Southern perimeter road, and in a sorry state as I remember. I think I have a picture somewhere. It's still visible on Google Earth, although has moved behind some buildings between the 2005 imagery and now. It doesn't appear have a tailplane or engines, although Wiki reports it as "being restored".

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