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A very long shot here, but would anyone know the registration of the Olley Air Services Dh 89 Dragon Rapide that flew the Spanish dictator Franco from the Canary Islands to Africa in July 1936???
merlinxx
4th May 2008, 15:32
I'll dig out my library & rvt. 'twas Cecil Bebb who was the Capt, I worked along side him in BUA back in 1964. He & Doc Papadopoulos (he flew for the other side) sat opposite each other in BUA.
norwich
4th May 2008, 18:29
How about G-ACYR, having read about this elsewhere, 1936 from Canary Islands to Morocco !
I have "borrowed" this photo from Galdri's supurb collection at "plane talk web", it is in Museo del Aire, Madrid.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii58/keithnewsome/G-ACYR.jpg
Merlinxx - thanks for the info and Norwich that is the very one. I had no idea it would still be in existence. I looked up the museum and will have to pay a visit some time.
Many Thanks
Keith
S'land
4th May 2008, 20:35
Yes, norwich, it was G-ACYR. There are a couple of nice photo's at:
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?airlinesearch=Olley%20Air%20Service&distinct_entry=true
norwich
4th May 2008, 20:53
Thank you all, I have found an interesting link to the history (if it works) ?
Keith.
Well the copy and paste seems not to work ! so i will type it here :-
http://randompottins.*************/2006/09/british-friends-of-franco.html
This is all a bit spooky ! but this keeps coming up ! if you google search "olley air services" scroll down about 5 pages you may find it ?
Keith ????
There's a good bit written about this flight in the book "Croydon Airport The Great Days 1928-39", published by Borough of Sutton Libraries; the library still has, I believe, copies in stock for sale. Pages 177-180 are devoted to the flight.
The book includes the complete flying programme for the Olley fleet for the week in question; no detailed ops programme, it is just a photocopy of the relevant page from Gordon Olley's secretary's diary for the week, which contains all the detail including the Spanish flight. They were simpler days !