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Registration: G-AKCD

Construction Number: 1422

Code Number: Star Eagle

Model Avro 689 Tudor 5

Operator: British South American Airways Corporation - BSAA

Airport: Unknown, Unknown

Photographer: Brian Harris Collection via George Trussell

Date Taken: 1949 (approximate)

Date Submitted: 08/01/2024

Registered in 1947 and used by BSAA as a fuel freighter on the Berlin Airlift. Then transferred to BOAC. To William Dempster in 1950; wfu by end of 1953 and acquired by Air Charter Ltd. Scrapped Stansted in June 1958. This shot appears to be taken while on static display; could be at the end of the Berlin Airlift, possibly in Germany?

Picture ID:1870876

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