
Salisbury Airport. |
| Looking from
the East, foreground, left is the Field Aircraft Services Hangar,
in the middle right is the Autair(Helicopters) Hangar and then the
large Air Trans Africa Hangar with one of their Douglas DC7s and Super
Constellation, VP-WAW of Afro Continental Airways on the apron. The
middle distance is the Civil Terminal of Salisbury Airport, large
apron to the right front, the two hangars on the left edge of the
photo belonged to Rhodesian United Air Carriers(RUAC). The threshold
of Runway 240 can be seen, it was off the end of this runway that
the Rhodesian Air Force Canberra R2510 crashed after breaking up in
November 1971 killing Flt Lt.A.G.Roughead and Air Lt.G.N Robertson.
Photo taken in October 1971 from an Autair Bell 47G |
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