The latest Flypast magazine includes a complete copy of the first edition. I thought this little snippet from 1981 was interesting.
Well airborne forces saved a Dakota but doubt they could afford a Bev. Dakota KP208 stood outside the Aldershot Airborne Forces Museum for many years and was extensively photographed in the background of passing out platoon images. In 2008 the Dakota was transferred to 16 Air Assault Brigade to be the gate guardian at Merville Barracks, Colchester. The below is taken from a leaflet on Dakota KP208 which used to be the gate guardian in Aldershot and is now at Colchester: "Airborne Forces Day, May 27, 1970, was the day that Dakota KP208, which stands outside the Airborne Forces Museum, Aldershot, was dedicated to the thousands of men of Airborne Forces who flew in, or were towed in gliders by the Dakotas of World War II. It was just nine days since it had made its last flight from No. 5 Maintenance Unit, Kemble, Wiltshire to R.A.F. Odiham, Hants. There to be dismantled and brought by road to its present site. It was resplendent in the colours of Air Support Command. Silver overall, with a white roof and a blue line above the windows. A red, white and blue tricolour on the fin, and roundels on the fuselage after of the door, and above and below the wings near the tips. KP208 was just 25 years old with 4, 164 flying hours in her log book. As Dakota’s go, a youngster! READ MORE
Chucking it down with rain when I drove past Fort Paull today, but couldn't see the Beverley, so presume it has been removed; last snippets noted were: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/her...re-move-to-new-home-in-east-yorkshire-3359578
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