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More amazing photographs and notes on Northolt visitors in the early 1960's from Dave Gardiner.
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A fairly standard example with just one tail badge and no dayglo paint. It's a pity I never managed to photograph any of the more exotic colour schemes such as arctic red tails and wingtips or purple dayglo nose, tails and wingtips |
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As well as dozens of visiting examples, there were two C-54s based at Northolt in the late 1950s(0-49054 and 0-272489). Aircraft based in Europe and the USA were virtually daily visitors and the variety of paint schemes was fascinating, virtually no two aircraft being painted the same. This particular example is fairly typical with badges on the tail and behind the cockpit and dayglo stripes around the nose and tail. |
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These Blackbushe (later West Malling) based aircraft were fairly frequently seen. Of the other Blackbushe based USN a/c, the R4Y-1 141021 was common, but the Beech JRB Expeditors were never seen, except overflying on airways. |
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This anonymous shot shows an aircraft in the more common camoflage scheme. although the were some silver/white/red VIP a/c around (including the Northolt based KP221), most a/c were painted in the scheme shown, |
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Not seen very often, this was taken in Farnborough week, probably 1960. |
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Italian a/c were quite unusual, except in Farnborough week, I believe this was 1960 again |
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The Dutch Airforce ran a C47 flight every weekday morning, stopping for an hour or two. This gradually tailed off over the years until today when the F50s seem to be fairly rare. The a/c were originally coded ZU3 etc, so this photo must have been taken after 1960. |
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