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Silver City Airways Silver City Airways Full details of the materials stored in the Silver City Airways archive Please contact Keith Dagwell 31 Exmoor Drive Salvington Worthing West Sussex BN13 2PJ Telephone 01903 261514 AIR KRUISE. 1. ”Flight” Oct 1955, history. 2. Angela Ackworth in her Air Kruise uniform. 3. 1955 Staff day trip to Ostend on DC3. 4. Audrey Kennard and Val Lipscombe at Ferryfield. 5. Air Kruise D.H.Dragon Rapide G-AEWL at Lympne 1950. 6. Air Kruise Dragon Rapide at Lympne. 7. G-AHJI at Blackbushe and later in 1954 at Ferryfield. 8. HRH the Duke of Edinburgh and DC3 at Ferryfield 5 th April 1956. 9. HRH the Duke of Edinburgh exits G-AIME at Ferryfield. 10. HRH leaves G-AIME with Michael Day (SCA Tech Director). 11. Postcard of DC3 G-ANLF. 12. G-AMZB,G-AMYX and G-AOBN at Ferryfield 1954. 13. DC3’s at Ferryfield(colour). 14. DC3’s G-AMYX and G-AMYV. 15. DC3 G-AMYX. 15a. Silver City ‘no passport’ flight. 16. DC3 at Linz – Hungarian aid mission 1956. 16a. “ “ “ “ “ 17. B170 Mk21 and DC3 interiors in passenger configuration. 17a. DC3 interior 1955. 18. G-ANLF flying the MOA and Air Kruise flags 1956. 19. 2,3 and 4 Air Kruise DC3s at Ferryfield 1955. 20. Val Sanders in her Air Kruise uniform 1957. 21. Val Sanders on charter flight with group of missionaries. 22. Val Sanders in navy blue uniform en-route to Malta. AIR KRUISE… cont 23. Wing Commander Hugh Kennard. 24. Daily Telegraph 24.6.1995 Hugh Kennard Obituary. 25. Ferry News Nov 1957. 26. Air Kruise Lympne pleasure flight ticket. 27. Air Kruise ticket 20 th July 1947 £1.0.0 pleasure flight C.Adams,F.Sutton. AUDREY KENNARD’S ALBUM VOLUME 1 PAGE 1. 1. Valerie Sanders. 1a. Air Commodore ‘Taffy’ Powell. 2. Stirling Moss and Angela Acworth. 2A. Audrey and Hugh Kennard. 3. Capt Jerry Rosser and F/O Wannop in a Herald. 3a. Jerry Rosser in a Herald. 4. Last flight from Lympne Oct 3 rd 1954 ,G-AGVC. 4a. “ “ “ “ 5. “ “ Eoin Mekie,Bill Franklin. 5a. “ “ . 6. ‘Mac’ McRae and the last car to leave Lympne. 6a. Lowering the flag. 7. Lew Turner at Lympne. 7a. Lympne,winter 1953 / 54. 8. Hugh and Audrey Kennard. 9. Bobby Vanburen. 10. Bob Large and Ron Hoornaert. 10a. Terry Mattock,George Hunt John Watson and Mike Cole. 11. Pauline Roberts 1959. 11a. Pauline Roberts and Val Sanders 1958. 12. Val Sanders and Bobby Vanburen (summer 1959), Bob Large,Pauline Roberts and Gus Napier 1958. 12a. Pauline Roberts and Jordan,Pauline Roberts and Terry Mattock 1958. 13. John Watson,Pauline Roberts and Mike Cole 1959. May,Manon and Pauline Roberts 1958. AUDREY KENNARD’S ALBUM VOLUME 1 PAGE 1… cont 13a. Val Sanders and Bobby Vanburen 1959. Gordon Knight,Terry Mattock andGeorge Hunt Lyon 1958. 14. Air Kruise DC3 G-AMYV loading a jet engine 1956. 14a. “ “ G-ANLF 1955. 15. “ “ G-AMYV. 2 Air Kruise DC3s. 15a. Interior of an Air Kruise B170 Mk21 G-AIFM 1955. 16. Air Kruise DC3 G-ANLF 1955. 16a. “ “ . 17. An Air Kruise DC3,2 Dragon Rapides and a B170 Mk 32 at Lympne 1953. AUDREY KENNARD’S ALBUM VOLUME 1 PAGE 2. 17a. Libya. 18. Waw Elnamus,Libya. 18a. Hugh Kennard and a group of ladies. 19. SCA S 51 helicopter at Shoreham 28.8.1954. 19a. Len Birch (maint f/man),Len Madelaine (chf pilot) and Len Lakey (trng capt). 20. Hugh Kennard presents tickets to film contest winners. 20a. “ “ “ “ 21. “ “ “ “ 21a. “ “ “ “ 22. B170 Mk 32 G-ANWJ in experimental livery 1959. 22a. “ “ “ “ 23. Staff cars being used to simulate floor space in proposed AW 670. 23A. “ “ “ “ 24. Audrey Kennard in her office. 24a. Hugh Kennard in his office. 25. Close up of Bristol Hercules 672 engine on a B170 Mk21. 25a. Mr Brimicome in the Ferryfield control tower. 26. Jack Ellis (SATCO) in the Ferryfield control tower. 26a. Lew Turner at the Ferryfield check – in desk. 27. Simca car part imports. 27a. “ “ AUDREY KENNARD’S ALBUM VOLUME 1 PAGE 2….cont 28. 50 th Anniversary of the Bleriot Channel crossing,the Bleriot replica on approach to Ferryfield during the Daily Mail London to Paris Air Race July 24 th 1959. 28a. Bleriot replica lands. 29. The Bleriot pilot Jean Salis and an SCA A/H. 29a. “ “ . 30. “ “ . 30a. Jean Salis with his old Humber. 31. “ “ 31a. “ “ 32. An earlier replica being loaded into a B170 Mk 21. AUDREY KENNARD’S ALBUM VOLUME 1 PAGE 3. 33. A ramp being positioned awaiting the arrival of Stirling Moss in the Daily Mail Air Race. 33a. Stirling Moss takes a Lydd roundabout at speed. 34. Stirling Moss drives up the ramp into the aircraft. 34a. Unloading a Paris – London car. 35. Driving off the apron. 35a. An unscheduled stop on the airport road. 36. Sheila Van Dam in her Daily Mail Air Race entry at Eastleigh. 36a. Sheila Van Dam’s car being loaded at Eastleigh. 37. Daily Mail Air Race entry loading. 37a. Daily Mail Air Race entry Artie Shaw ,Vespa dealer. 38. Race check point ,Eoin Mekie (SCA Chairman). 38a. Daily Mail Air Race entry ,van / ambulance. 39. “ “ “ “. 39a. ? AUDREY KENNARD’S ALBUM VOLUME 2. SMALL INDIVIDUAL PICTURES OF AIR KRUISE STAFF. B170 Mk21.Page 1. 1. Operating details –Ken Honey. 2. Cockpit. 2a. Air Kruise G-AIFM at Ferryfield. 3. Passenger cabin. 4. G-AGVB loading cars at Lympne. 5. G-AGVB on lease to Compagnie Air Transport as F-BHVB colour. 6. 3 aircraft at Filton G-AIME, G-AGVB + I other. 7. G-AGVC in Bristol A.C. livery prior to delivery and in SCA Livery at Blackbushe 8. G-AGVC breaks a leg at Ronaldsway I.O.M. 30-6-62. 9. G-AGVC details of damage. 10. G-AGVD at Lympne. 10a. G-AHJD. 11. G-AHJG and a civil Sterling at Blackbushe. 12. G-AHJI at Ferryfield in the snow. 13. G-AHJI at Ferryfield. 14. G-AHJI on duty in Libya. 15. G-AHJP. 16. G-AHJD on lease from Airwork. 17. G-AICM accident in Berlin. 18. G-AICS two liveries. 19. G-AIFM as F-BEND. 20. G-AIFM colour. 21. G-AIFV. 22. G-AIFV filming’ Man in the Sky’ crash at Wolverhampton. 23. G-AIFV with ‘Secret Engine’. B170 Mk21.Page 1…cont 24. G-AIFV in ditch. 25. G-AIME at Lympne. 26. G-AIME at Lympne 1948/49. 27 G-AIME close up of Hercules 672 power plant. 28. G-AIME at Ferryfield. 29. G-AIME at Ferryfield now named ‘City of Exeter’. 30. G-AIMH at Blackbushe Feb. 1956 original livery and at Lympne in later livery named ‘ City of Birmingham ‘. B170 Mk21PAGE No.2. 31. G-AIMH colour,G-AIME,trio of Mk21’s at Ferryfield G-AIME 31a. G-AIMH colour. 32 G-AIMH and G-AIME colour. 32a. Mk32 G-AMWF and Mk21 G-AIFM. 33. G-AIMH in Manx Airways livery. 34. G-AIMH colour. 35. Mk IIA G-AHJD at Accra – Airworks colour. 36. G-AIFF – Bristol A.C. livery. 37. G-AICT Channel Airways, colour. 38. Fairy Aviation colour and Trans European G-AGPV,colour. 39. G-AIFS Ex Iberia colour. 40. G-AIFO. 41. D.BIDD LTU colour. 42. Mk31.leading particulars. 43. RNZAF Mk31. 44. RNZAF Mk31 instrument panel. 45. C-FDFC Mk 31 colour. 46. C-GYOS Mk 31 Hawkair colour. 47. G-AMLP Mk 31 Air Charter. 47a. G-AMSA Mk 31 Air Charter and Boscombe Down colour. 48. G-AMLJ Mk 31 BKS and EI-APC Mk31.Aer Turas colour. 49. CF-TFX Mk 31 Wardair and G-41-1-66 ex Iberia colour. 50. CF-WAE Mk 31 Norcanair and EC-AHT colour. 51. Mk 31 T.A.R.and F-BFUD Air Littoral colour. 52. G-BISU Mk 31 Instone andCF-YOO Lambair colour. 53. G-BISU Flight library colour. 54. Ex RNZAF Mk31. B170 Mk21PAGE No.2…cont 55. Ex SAFE Mk 31 restaurant at Waihi N.Z. 1944 ZK-EPC. 56. One night in Waitomo. 57. Air Charter Mk 31. 58. Air charter Mk 31 Voyager loads 2 new Jaguars. 59. Ex SAFE Mk31 in New Zealand ZK-CPT. 59a. “ “ “ 60. “ “ “ 60a. “ “ “ 61.. Aircraft Illustrated B170 Part 1---4. 62. Database B170 ‘Aeroplane’ July 2002. 63. RAAF Mk21 with auto-coarsening,montage by Peter Adam’s son. BRITISH AVIATION SERVICES and BRITAVIA OVERSEAS OPERATIONS PAGE 1. 1. British Aviation Services history. 2. Flight Dec 19 th 1946,naming of Lancastrian ‘City of London’ at Langley. 3. Mosquitos and Spitfires awaiting delivery to Turkish Air Force. 4. Lancastrian,Canso and Lodestar at Blackbushe. 5. Britavia Ferry Unit. 6. Aug 20 th 1955,Canberra flight New York to London. 7. Pilot’s Wives. 8. Record breaking Canberra. 9. Pilots and Air Commodore Powell at Heathrow. 10. Moneypenny at Heathrow. 11. Pilots reunited with their wives. 12. B170Mk31.G-AINN delivered to RCAF. 13. Avro 19. 14. B170Mk21 G-AICM at Abadan. 15. Pilots fly home on Air India from Bombay. 16. DC3.G-AJAV in Salisbury Southern Rhodesia. 17. News clip about Winston Churchill’s DC3. 18. Percival Prince G-AMLX force landed in Cuba. 19. Wrecked Prince G-AMLX. 20. Grumman Mallard 1950. 21. King Farouk’s Mallard 1950. 22. Grumman Mallard. 23. B170Mk21 G-AIME in Iraq. 24. B170Mk21 G-AIME on Petroleum contract. 25. B170Mk32 G-AMWA visits the Persian Gulf. 26. Singapore crew rest 1947. BRITISH AVIATION SERVICES and BRITAVIA OVERSEAS OPERATIONS PAGE 1…cont 27. Catalina ferry crew Singapore and Rome 1947.
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