G-APME_1975-07_MUC_1600_WH

 

Photo taken by Wilhelm Hell, scan kindly provided by Michael Bernhard for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

July 1975

 

G-APME

De Havilland D.H. 106 Comet 4B

6436

Dan-Air London

 

G-APME with Dan-Air London was first seen at Riem on 11 August 1972. The airframe had been noted before with BEA on 6 August 1966 and 22 December 1966 (dates from Klaus Held’s Riem chronicle).

 

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Paul Seymour:

Delivered to BEA as G-APME in 1960. To BEA Airtours in 1970 and Dan-Air in 1972. Withdrawn from use at Lasham in 1978 and scrapped in 1979.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/civil/details/dh106_117

 

G-APME with BEA at PMI in 1966:

www.flickr.com/photos/127896132@N05/52867302725

 

G-APME with BEA Airtours at DUB in March 1971:

www.flickr.com/photos/david-fox-ireland/25306963835

 

G-APME with Dan-Air London at PIK in 1973 (initial colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/markp51/12345700053

 

G-APME at Lasham in early 1979:

www.flickr.com/photos/kanjaana/34252593522

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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Taken in July 1975