AP-ADH Douglas DC-3
(c/n 9878)
The Pak-Air of 1948/49 was no relation, or
forerunner, of the current Pakistan International
Airlines. This was a charter outfit engaged in bringing
emigrants to the UK (Bovingdon) from
Karachi.
The one thing I have never understood is that why, if Independence was
so great, did
millions flee the
new independent nations of India and Pakistan for the soggy, misty
shores of the
UK?
Whatever, AP-ADH was a former SAAF Dakota, serialed 6806
and civilianized in
1946 as
G-ALCB. It went to Pak-Air in 1948 and was restored as G-ALCB
some two years
later after
Pak-Air had folded. By that time it was pretty well worn out and
was broken up in
December of
1950.