Air Ceylon - The beginning....

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At Ratmalana

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Air Ceylon
Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E

Paris - Le Bourget (LBG / LFPB)
France, June 7, 1969

 

 

Air Ceylon De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 - Kuala Lumpur - Sungai Besi / Simpang (WMKF) Malaysia, 1963

G-APDC Taken on a trip from Ceylon to Singapore during a stopover at Kuala Lumpur.

 

 

Air Ceylon
De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4

Kuala Lumpur - Sungai Besi / Simpang (WMKF)
Malaysia, 1963

 

 

Air Ceylon
Douglas DC-8-53

Miami - International (MIA / KMIA)
USA - Florida, May 1979

 

 

Air Ceylon Boeing 720-023B at London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL) UK - England, July 29, 1977

4R-ACS This Monarch Al B720 (G-BCBB) was leased to Air Ceylon between March-December 1977

 

 

Air Ceylon
Boeing 720-023B

London - Luton (LTN / EGGW)
UK - England, July 1, 1977

 

 

 

 

Air Ceylon
Lockheed L-188C Electra PH-LLD Dutch registered Air Ceylon Electra, leased from KLM.

London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL)
UK - England, 1961

 

 

Air Ceylon
Douglas DC-8-41

Singapore - Paya Lebar (QPG / WSAP)
Singapore, November 1976
Remark

 

 

Air Ceylon
Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E

Singapore - Paya Lebar (QPG / WSAP)
Singapore, December 1976

 

 

Aiir Ceylon
Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E

Kuala Lumpur - Subang / Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SZB / WMSA) Malaysia, March 1978

4R-ACN (cn 2135)

 

 

 

"Maha Devi" Air Ceylon at Amsterdam

 

 

Air Ceylon

 

 

British Eagle at Ratmalana

 

 

Air Ceylon Schedules fares and Freight Rates for Nov 1950

 

 

Time Table for March 1955

 

 

Time Table for April 1957

 

 

for 1959

 

 

 

For Winter 1963

 

 

For summer 1965

 

 

For 1970. Note now the flight is changed

 

 

For 1972

 

 

for 1973

 

 

summer 1967

 

 

all details of fares and offices

 

 

 

 

trident and Avro scedule

 

 

 

Air Ceylon and Qantas Services guide

 

 

 

time Table for April 1960

 

 

 

scaled Model of Air Ceylon Connie

 

 

 

 

 

Spoon from Air Ceylon times

 

 

Bristol frieghter Katunayake Jan 1960 RAF

 

 

 

Water runway of Koggala.

 

 

Capt. George Ferdinand

Ferdy started on Air Ceylon at Rs. 10 per flying hour. was a product of Royal College, Colombo. He was barely eighteen when in 1941 he answered the Royal Air Force call for trainee pilots to help the war effort overseas. Following selection, he received his basic flying training at Ratmalana

 

 

 

An Elephant towing a Corsair (Chance Vought F4U) fighter aircraft, at Airfield near Kalpitiya (Puttalam), Ceylon 1944.

 

 

 

Landing in Koggala

 

 

Landing at Katunayake 1957

 

 

RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

 

 

 

Air Ceylon Sugar packet

 

 

HS121 Trident 1E 4R-ACN Air Ceylon

 

 

 

 

RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

 

 

 

comet at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

 

 

comet landing at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

 

 

RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

 

 

RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

 

 

RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

 

 

refueling at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

 

 

 

Hawker Siddeley HS-748-212 Srs. 2 4R-ACJ at Katunayake

 

 

RAF China Bay as it was in 1957.

 

 

RAF Trincomalee, China Bay

 

 

RNZAF 41 Sqn Freighter at Katunayeka 1957

 

 

Fly BOAC Ceylon

 

 

 

DC 3 at Katunayake 1953

 

 

Mail Room at Ratmalana 1938

 

 

Ratmalana Air Port in 1950

 

 

 

Trincomalee China Bay RAF 1957

 

 

 

 

XD875 and another Valiant (and a Comet) at Negombo, Ceylon, 4th June 1958, en route to Butterworth

 

 

 

RAF China Bay Airbase in 1957 all 7600 feet in Trincomalee, Elephant Beach at right...

 

 

1957 RAF China Bay Air base of the runway and the strategic oil tanks below, now only partially used

 

 

Katunayake airport 1979 RAF C 130K Hercules

 

 

 

DC 3,Comet, TWA Constellation & Valiant's at post Independance Katunayake Airbase

 

 

 

Approaching Katunayke Airbase good 'oldays 1960 !

 

 

katunayake airbase been cleared for terminal 1960

 

 

Indian Navy Short Sealand at Trincomalee 1957..

 

 

 

Pakistan AF Bristol Freighter 1957 Trincomalee

 

 

China Bay. The most secure harbour sought after by all super powers

 

 

Chinabay Naval base 1957 from a RAF Sunderland...

 

 

RAF China Bay Airbase Terminal view 1957 in Trinco - RAF bombed the Japs in Malaya from here and Liberator bombers also conducted patrols from this base

 

 

RAF Sunderland taking off at Chinabay inner inlet,Sri Lanka 1957

 

 

China Bay RAF Sunderlands at anchor Trinco Harbour, Sri Lanka 1957

 

 

DC 3 Dakota at Palaly ,Jaffna 70's

 

 

L to R Dave Souter, Bob Aspey and Dennis Wordsworth having arrived at Trinco on RCyAF Dove 1958

 

 

Katukurunda Airport 1942-1946

 

 

Katunayake in 1957/58 as taken by Tony Hawes with his Rolleiflex camera

 

 

Xmas 1959 was a time to collect most of the signs from the different sections at RAF Katunayake, note the planks crossing the monsoon ditches