DC3 Routes

[Garry Russell]

A few more Vikings for now

I will have another go sometime.

Some repeat but I leave them in as it's easier at those stage and lets you know the genuine operators on that route if you wanted several base at one end or the other.


Continue with the list following of From BEA
Again not much is mentioned eg. “Channel flew to Holiday makers in Viking to the Med and the Channel Islandsâ€

[DaveB]

Hi Garry,

Excellent stuff mate. This opens up yet more airports for us as well as more routes

Crewsair had some funny routes didn't they :shock: Southend-Stavanger isn't one that would jump at you in a hurry :think:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Hiya Dave

Stavanger was a regular charter route for boat crew changes..Southend probably acting for London Docks in those cases.

A lot of those routes for channel were shared with Daks according to the bumf.....certainly looking at them I would have thought so

The Daks of Channel Certainly did the Southend to Guernsey, Jersey, Rotterdam, Ostend.

TBH Channel tended to use all types on all routes if the airport could take it.

The DC-4 was suppose to be on the Air bridge Southend Ostend but did do the odd CI for example.

Even airlines that had Viking rather than Daks would almost certainly been in direct competition with others that did especially on main routes.

Garry

[Garry Russell]

A few more

Don Everall Aviation (All operated by Dakota as well)

Birmingham-Guernsey
Birmingham-Jersey
Birmingham-Paris LBG
Birmingham-Dublin
Manchester-Basle
Manchester-Tarbes
Gatwick-Perpignan
Gatwick Tours

Dragon Airways

Newcastle-Liverpool-Paris LBG
Newcastle-Belfast (Nutts corner)
Newcastle-Bergen

Eagle Aviation/Cunard Eagle------The military contract were wearing military serials and all civilian marks removed and roundels added

Manchester-Dublin (Newspapers) flew along side Dakotas
Manchester-Palma
Manchester-Hamburg-Copenhagen
Manchester-Ostend
Blackbushe-Rome-Athens-Nicosia (Charter for NAFFI)
Blackbushe-Aalborg( Denmark)-Gothenburg
Blackbushe-Munich-Belgrade
Blackbushe-Nice
Blackbushe-Klagenfurt
Blackbushe-Pisa
Blackbushe-San Sebastian
Blackbushe-Palma
Blackbushe-Turin
Blackbushe-Valencia
Blackbushe-Gibralta (Troops 2 year contract regular service for families etc)
Blackbushe-Malta (Troops 2 year contract regular service for families etc)
Blackbushe-Nicosia (Troops 2 year contract regular service for families etc)
Blackbushe-Tripoli (Troops 2 year contract regular service for families etc)
Blackbushe- Fayid (Canal zone) (Troops 2 year contract regular service for families etc)
Blackbushe-Idris
Blackbushe-La Baule
Blackbushe-Lyons
Blackbushe-Zaragoza
Blackbushe-Zargreb
Birmingham-Palma
Blackbushe-Biarritz-Gibraltar-Agadir-Cisnerios-Bathurst(now Banjul)-Freetown-Adibjan-Lagos-Kabuna………..weekly..took eight days, sometimes longer
Blackbushe-Dinard
Nicosia-Baghdad (Troops 2 year contract regular service for families etc)
Nicosia-Mombassa (Troops 2 year contract regular service for families etc)
Heathrow-Perpignan
Heathrow-Ostend

[DaveB]

Top Banana Garry!

I know we have a Don Everall paint to match some of those routes.. not sure about British Eagle though :think: I think I need a full time job as a VA pilot.. a suggestion I'll make to the good lady at some point :shock:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Opppppppppps

I didn't make it clear that is a continuation of Viking routes with known Dakota reference.

The more I see it the more it appears like I said above somewhere that as long as the type could operate into the airport then they would both have been there at one tiome.

The Dak was better a grass fields than the Viking so it's a pretty safe bet on Daks flying Viking routes.......maybe so so sure the other way round.


Garry

[RAF_Quantum]

Thanks Garry

Rgds

John

[Garry Russell]

I've got morre to wade through Jon

I'll do another batch soon

ATB

Garry

[DaveB]

Garry..

Re the DC3 routes Jer-Portsmouth and Gue-Portsmouth.. would it be fair to assume that Vikings did these routes also??

ATB

DaveB :tab: