G-ANAF Douglas C-47B Dakota. Air Atlantique/RVL Group/Marine and Coastguard Agency. AND KK116/G-AMPY. Douglas C-47B-15-DK (Douglas DC3C). Air Atlantique. RAF Transport Command colours. CVT. EGBE. 04.2018

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G-ANAF Douglas C-47B Dakota. Air Atlantique/RVL Group/Marine and Coastguard Agency. AND KK116/G-AMPY. Douglas C-47B-15-DK (Douglas DC3C). Air Atlantique. RAF Transport Command colours. CVT. EGBE. 04.2018
G-ANAF Douglas C-47B Dakota. Air Atlantique/RVL Group/Marine and Coastguard Agency. AND KK116/G-AMPY. Douglas C-47B-15-DK (Douglas DC3C). Air Atlantique. RAF Transport Command colours. CVT. EGBE. 04.2018

1. G-AMPY/KKII6An iconic aircraft took off from Coventry Airport for the final time today as it made its way to its new home in Germany. The Air Atlantique Douglas DC-3 has been based at the city’s airport for more than 30 years and is best known for its part in the Berlin airlift during the Cold War in the late 1940s.
It will now be based at Berlin Schönefeld where its new owners, Air Service Berlin, plan to keep it in the air as a memorial to its historic past.
The DC-3 was built in California in 1944, however it was too late to be used during the Second World War and was transferred to the RAF in November that year. 30.07.2013 COVENTRY TELEGRAPH. 2. G-ANAF. Air Atlantique’s Dakota (C-47B) G-ANAF (c/n 33436, ex 44-77104, KP220 and N107GP) has been operating for several years in a day-glo orange scheme on a lease contract with the RVL Group for marine surveillance and spraying work on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA). G-ANAF is easily recognizeable due to its huge under belly radome. Sister ship G-AMPY (in RAF Transport Command colors as KK116) has also been involved on the same lease, with some engine components from G-ANAF being used to keep G-AMPY flying whilst its sister ship was hangar-bound during the 2013/14 winter. Both aircraft (as of mid-April) are airworthy again and have resumed work under the RVL Group contract and the future of these aircraft in flying condition is secure.

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