Yesteryear

10 Years Ago

• A Douglas Dakota has been donated by the RAAF to the Berlin Airlift Memorial Museum in memory of the work performed by RAAF crews during the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift. Dakota A65-69 was flown from RAAF Butterworth on 16 June and it arrived at Gutersloh on 20 June. It was one of the remaining 12 Dakotas in RAAF service. Amongst the six man crew was Air Vice Marshall David Evans, who flew 240 missions during the Berlin Airlift.

• The 136th and last example of the commercial Sikorsky S-61 helicopter was delivered on 19 June, ending a 19 year span for civil versions of the helicopter which originally entered production in its military version in 1959. Civil deliveries comprised 123 S-61Ns and 13 S-61Ls. In excess of 1,100 examples of the S-61 family have been built in the USA and by licensees in Italy, Japan and the UK.

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