Vintage aircraft to be displayed

[henry crun]

From todays Times.

<a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001601758,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001601758,00.html</a>

Does anyone know what else they have tucked away there apart from the Orcadian ?.

[Cyclic Hotline]

I have never heard of the DH Orcadian before this thread today. I always thought that all the early flying was done by DH Rapides, certainly all local reference and identification is of Rapides!

Anyone have any further information on the Orcadian? G-AXLT, the aircraft in question is an ex-Strathallan aircraft. Even the Science Museum lists it as a D.H.89A Dragon Rapide.

A site for the current exhibits at the Science Museum, Wroughton describes it as an Orcadian. <a href="http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/science-planes.htm" target="_blank">http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/science-planes.htm</a>


http://www.shetland-museum.org.uk/images/photos/people/9311.jpg
Photo from early days of Highland Airways - Sumburgh Airport.

When I read the first post, I thought it meant they were storing old newspapers there!

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[foxmoth]

I notice that Wroughton describes it as a Dragon Orcadian, not a designation I know myself, but a lot of aircraft at that time were given individual names a bit like a ship would have its own name. Orcadian could be a name in this fashion.

[Airways Ed]

Orcadian is the (individual) name of D.H.84 Dragon (the forerunner of the D.H.89 Dragon Rapide) G-ACIT.

G-ACIT was used by Capt E E Fresson of Highland Airways in 1933 to start Aberdeen-Orkney service.