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rail · April 2nd 09, 08:33 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

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(Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:

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On Apr 2, 7:41 pm, "Michael R N Dolbear" wrote:

Some 1940-1946 airliners, eg DC-3s Dakotas C-47s remain in constant
daily use even if this is sightseeing.

Not in the UK any more.

They were stopped last year. I'm not sure the precise reason but AIUI
it was a CAA directive or similar.

No longer met standards for safe evacuation in emergencies.

Air Atlantique, the sole UK DC3/C47 operator made a large number of
farewell flights to mark this.

And, so far as passenger flights go, Air Atlantique has been analogous to
preserved-power railtours for a very long time. IIRC the last scheduled
services with the Gooneys were in '83 or so (when they lost a mail
contract - to rail, as it happened).

They continued doing oil slick survey work for a number of years. Used to
see them coming in and out of Eastleigh on a fairly regular basis possibly up
to the mid 90s.

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