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"The
Home Of Eagle"
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Eagle Aviation
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Eagle Airways
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Cunard
Eagle
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British
Eagle
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1948
to 1968
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c/n 221 |
Entered Service |
First flew 22nd
May 1947.
Purchased by Eagle Aviation Ltd from BEA on 14th May 1953. |
Left Service |
Withdrawn from
service at Heathrow and dismantled. B/U Unknown 1959. |
Named |
"Lord
Howe" |
History |
Extensively used
on trooping contracts using serial number XG896. It was damaged and repaired
on three occasions, a heavy landing at Nicosia on the 30th September 1954,
propeller and engine damage at Basle on the 21st July 1957, lastly at Benina,
Libya on the 12thj May 1958. |
Pictures
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