[David_Hayward (RIP)]

How do you guys come up with such information? Note that Heath Row was designated circa 1944 as the next new London Airport, as Heathrow, and many is the time I went aircraft spotting there from 1966 to 1968ish...I used to live between the approaches to 28L and 28R. At Gatwick I saw a few C-47 RCAF aircraft, as well as C-130s. From memory they used to bring Canadian soldiers in from Germany, etc., and then they transferred to World Airways charter flights. The significance is that the C-47s still had the wartime RAF serials, similar to "KG 624" [can't remember the exact serials]..I have the original spotting books somewhere and I still cannot establish why the RCAF did not revert to the post-war numbering system as worn by the Hercs [two used to land at the same time...quite a novelty now]. It would be interesting to think that these C-47s had been Lend-Leased during the War and were still doing service in the late 1960's.