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RAF veteran Stanley Sickelmore, Bennett having the only night flight licence made all the nighttime trips himself with Sickelmore as co-pilot.
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At the end of the Berlin Airlift the aircraft were used for trooping charters to the Canal Zone for the British government and
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in Wales on 12 March 1950. The month after the disaster the company merged into one of Bennett's other companies
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One of the Tudor aircraft had operated 85 sorties carrying over 9 tons of supplies per flight between
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charters. One of the charters was to end in disaster when G-AKBY was used for a rugby charter and
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Airflight Ltd was dissolved in 1965 and Fairflight was formally wound up in 1966.
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Airflight Avro Tudor G-AKBY at Wunsdorf during the Berlin Airlift
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aircraft. These were flown by Bennett and a single other pilot,
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was a British charter, and cargo airline from 1948 to 1950.
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while operating a rugby charter, crashed on approach to
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British Independent Airline & Operators Since 1947
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Index

Avro Tudor
Berlin
Germany
Don Bennett

Don Bennett
Langley Airfield
Berkshire
Berlin Airlift
Avro Tudor
WWII
Wunsdorf
Gatow
crashed on approach
RAF Llandow
Air Charter
Freddie Laker
Avro Tudor 2
Avro Tudor 5
G-AKBY
RAF Llandow
List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom







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