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Dublin Airport, Collinstown way back in 1954 with a collection of airplanes lined up for boarding and eventual takeoff! Given that the airport has changed so much over the years and the controversies ongoing today this does harken back to a different time, a different industry and looking at that horizon a very different Dublin. Even the ramp where the aircraft are parked with it's patchwork effect shows how much construction methods have changed!
Photographer: Alexander Campbell “Monkey” Morgan
Collection: Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection
Date: ca. 1954
NLI Ref: NPA MORX-8
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Photographer: Alexander Campbell “Monkey” Morgan
Collection: Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection
Date: ca. 1954
NLI Ref: NPA MORX-8
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Still recognisable underneath all the later additions; google maps satellite 3D (takes a while to load, and fun to play with) - www.google.com/maps/@53.4325316,-6.2473877,151a,35y,157.1...
Niall McAuley
OY-DDO Type Douglas DC-3A (C-47A-90-DL) Construction number 20453 Year of manufacture 1944 Year of registration-cancellation 1946-1948 ICAODC3 Notes 43-15987, OY-DDO DDL "Odd Viking", EI-AFB, VR-TBT, G-APPO, broken up 1967 Luton
Niall McAuley
The terminal building is from 1937 per the NIAH: Designed by architects Desmond Fitzgerald with Dermot O'Toole, Daithi Hanley, Charles Aliaga Kelly, Kevin Barry and Harry Robson. One of the first buildings in Ireland in an International Modernist style.
Niall McAuley
REGISTRATION DETAILS FOR EI-AFT (AER LINGUS) BRISTOL 170-FREIGHTER 31 E Serial 13076 ModelBristol 170-Freighter 31 E Status Left Fleet Registration History Airline Delivered Status G-AMLN The Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd 00.00.53 Left Fleet EI-AFT Aer Lingus 27.01.53 Left Fleet F-BFUO Societe Commerciale Aerienne du Littoral 00.10.56 Left Fleet EI-APM Aer Turas Unknown Crashed
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Lots of info previously - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5997469039/
Niall McAuley
Registration / Serial: EI-AFA Aircraft Original Type: Douglas DC-3 Aircraft Generic Type: Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) Aircraft Version: Douglas C-47A Skytrain C/n (msn): 19632 Operator Titles: Aer Lingus Aircraft Name: St. Declan Photo from 1963 in different livery.
Niall McAuley
I think the 4 engined plane at the front of the line being fuelled may be a brand new Vickers Viscount. First flew for Aer Lingus in March 1954.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] I think you may be right - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000737972/HierarchyTree?recor... catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000737975/HierarchyTree?recor...
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
Now, we're talking . . . Not only aviation, it's Irish Aviation.
RETRO STU
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Thanks Niall. Does your source also identify aircraft EI-AFI ?
O Mac
Ei-AKI was a Bristol Freighter.. car transporter who's days were numbered on the introduction of the Holyhead DunLaoghaire car ferry in 1964. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Freighter
suckindeesel
Times certainly have changed, I can’t imagine Monkey being allowed a flyover nowadays, given the panic caused by recent drone flights. It was a time of pride in our national airline, no Ryanair in those days. It looks like you could simply drive in and park behind the terminal, no barriers so probably free. The terminal roof had a viewing area to watch your loved ones arrive or depart, long since closed to the public. All that changed with the American paranoia post 9/11. The old terminal building is still there Google Earth Link earth.app.goo.gl/?link=https://earth.google.com/web/@53.4... [https://flic.kr/p/2ooRYyq]
Flame1958
The aircraft furthest to the left, with just the nose and wings visible appears to be Aer Lingus DC-3 registration EI-ACK. Maybe someone can confirm that for me. If it is "ACK", this particular DC-3 was originally with the USAAF as 43-15037. It was with Aer Lingus from January 1946 to March 1959. It was sold in Israel and registered 4X-AOC in 1960. In 1963 was registered in Portugal as CS-DGA in 1963, and is currently Preserved at Museu do Ar at Sintra, Portugal, where it can be seen today
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/38016434@N05] Amazing, sometimes, Flickr:
Became CS-DGA 10.78 for use by DGAC (Portuguese Aviation Authority) and withdrawn from use 1998. To Museum at Sintra with fake registration in TAP colour scheme. The original CS-TDA was used by TAP then to DETA in Mozambique as CR-AGD09.58 to 11972 and was scrapped in 1974 at Nactari in Mozambique.
Flame1958
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Brilliant Niall
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Thanks Michael
Irish251
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/23885771@N03] That's EI-AFT, not EI-AFI (which was a Tiger Moth). As EI-APM with Aer Turas, it would crash at Dublin on 12 June 1967, the two crew losing their lives. www.rte.ie/archives/2022/0523/1300671-dublin-airport-crash/ It came to rest approximately where the long building is in the top left of the Morgan image.
Irish251
Another view of the former EI-ACK, which I took at Sintra just a few weeks ago.
RETRO STU
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24101413@N03 Thanks for confirming it is in fact EI-AFT and that enabled me to identify the type of aircraft (Bristol Wayfarer Mark II). That was tragic, that crash and both crew losing their lives.