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| De Havilland DH-16 |
| United Kingdom, 1919 - Soon after
WWI the need for commercial aircraft developed rapidly. Only a few
manufacturers such as Westland and B.A.T. in England and Fokker in
the Netherlands were in time to create their commercial planes, but
many factories just adapted military aircraft to the new needs. Initially
Geoffrey De Havilland's firm Airco changed their DH-4's and DH-9's
into cabin biplanes, but very quickly thereafter the DH-16 was developed
as Airco's first purely civilian type. The widened body could carry
4 passengers and was far more economical than its predecessors. It
was the Eagle powered DH-16 G-EALU which flew the first scheduled
service for KLM between London and Schiphol on May 17th, 1920, piloted
by Capt. H. 'Jerry' Shaw. The type became extint quite soon as the
last of the nine examples built, was lost at Stag Lane in January
1923. |
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FM119 |
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1:72 |
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7.8 inch / 19,7 cm. |
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Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd. G-EALU 'Arras' |
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€ 1100 |
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1:48 |
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11.5 inch / 29,2 cm. |
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Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd. G-EALU 'Arras' |
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€ 1815 |
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Indicated net prices as from September 2007.
Members of the EEC should add 19% V.A.T. |
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