The Shorts family of Skyvan, 330 and 360 have a new home. Viking Aircraft now hold the rights having purchased them from Bombardier, the owners of the original Shorts facilities in Belfast. Viking and their owners, Longview, have already purchased the DHC types, as well as the CL-215/415 family from Bombardier.
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Many of you will have enjoyed the Daks over Duxford or Daks over Normandy events, or perhaps the Berlin Airlift anniversary celebrations. A major part of this was the contribution of the D-Day Squadron which was responsible for the 15 Dakotas that crossed from the USA. Well here are the statistics for that memorable outing.We didn’t believe it. So we checked and double checked. And now we BELIEVE.
The D-Day Squadron numbers are verified, and incredible. Have a look for yourself, below. For example, 45,000 miles of open-water flying over the cold north Atlantic, 100,000 gallons of fuel used, and 2.6 million people reached on social media.
Most important, the world saw us honor the men & women of D-Day, 75 years later.
Was it worth it? There are three answers: Yes, yes, and YES!
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Looks like somebody was getting ready for the UK's biggest air show, at Fairford this coming weekend.
The latest of our 2019 annuals, the European Registers Handbook, is now available to order at www.air-britain.co.uk/actbooks/acatalog/ERH2019.html#SID=12
(please note that currently order acknowledgements are not being sent out)
If you have ordered something through our website recently, you may have noticed that there has not been an e-mail acknowledgement. This is due to an issue with our software, but the order has been processed and will be despatched the next time the warehouse team are on site. Sorry if this causes any confusion.
