Ambassador - DAN AIR REMEMBERED

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G-ALFR
Type: Mk.2

Serial Number: 5210

Entered Service :1964

Last Flown : 11/04/66

Obtained From : Napier Engines Ltd

Notes: Aircraft was bought in 1961 and did not enter service for three years. The aircraft was scrapped at Lasham in March 1967

G-ALFR GALLERY
G-ALZN GALLERY
G-ALZN
Type: Mk.2

Serial Number: 5212

Entered Service : April 1962

Obtained From : Overseas Aviation

Last Flown: 25/09/67

Notes: Scrapped at Lasham May 1968.

G-ALZO GALLERY
G-ALZO
Type:MK.2

Serial Number: 5226

Entered Service : 20/02/63

Obtained From :Handley Page

Last Flown: 26/09/71

Notes: Preserved at Lasham donated to Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire

G-ALZR GALLERY
G-ALZR
Type: MK.2

Serial Number:  5214

Entered Service :November 1969

Obtained From : BKS

Last Flown: Damaged whilst in service with BKS. Nose wheel had collapsed upon landing at Paris Orly Airport.

Notes: Never entered service -  scrapped at Lasham May 1972

G-ALZN GALLERY
G-ALZX
Type: MK.2

Serial Number:  5214

Entered Service :November 1959

Obtained From : BKS

Last Flown: Damaged whilst in service with BKS. Nose wheel had collapsed upon landing at Paris Beuavais Airport on 14th April 1966

Notes: Never entered service -  scrapped at Lasham May 1972


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G-ALZY GALLERY
G-ALZY
Type: MK.2

Serial Number: 5221

Entered Service : 2-/02/63

Obtained From : Handley Page Ltd

Last Flown: 10/11/67

Notes: Withdrawn from use and scrapped at Lasham

G-AMAA GALLERY
G-AMAA
Type: MK.2

Serial Number: 5223

Entered Service :May 1966

Obtained From :Shell Aviation

Last Flown : Never Flown

Notes: Scrapped at Lasham February 1967.

G-AMAE GALLERY
G-AMAE
Type: Mk.2

Serial Number:   5227

Entered Service : November 1959

Obtained From : Butler Air Transport

Last Flown: 30/09/70

Notes: Scrapped at Lasham 1972

G-AMAE GALLERY
G-AMAG
Type: MK.2

Serial Number: 5229

Entered Service :May 1966

Obtained From : Shell Aviation Ltd

Notes: Damaged beyond repair when landing at Manston 30/09/68.
Accident report HERE (opens in new window)
Scrapped at Lasham
G-AMAH GALLERY
G-AMAH

Type:MK.2

Serial Number: 5230

Entered Service :November 1959

Obtained From : Butler Air Transport

Last Flown: 30/10/70

Notes: Scrapped at Lasham in 1972

ADDITIONAL PICTURES

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THE FLIGHT DECK & CUTAWAY IMAGE

G-ALZO RESTORED AT DUXFORED - SENT TO US BY THE DUXFORD TEAM
LINKS:
Official Heritage Site for the Airspeed Ambassador
The British Civil Airliners Collection at Duxford
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Graham Cook
Saturday 25 Jul 2020
G-ALFR you have listed as last flight, 11th April 1966. However, I have a photo dated May 1963 at Lasham, in derelict state.
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