Air Ceylon - The beginning

At Ratmalana Air Ceylon Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E Paris - Le Bourget (LBG / LFPB) France, June 7, 1969 Air Ceylon De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 - Kuala Lumpur - Sungai Besi / Simpang (WMKF) Malaysia, 1963 G-APDC Taken on a trip from Ceylon to Singapore during a stopover at Kuala Lumpur. Air Ceylon De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 Kuala Lumpur - Sungai Besi / Simpang (WMKF) Malaysia, 1963 Air Ceylon Douglas DC-8-53 Miami - International (MIA / KMIA) USA - Florida, May 1979 Air Ceylon Boeing 720-023B at London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL) UK - England, July 29, 1977 4R-ACS This Monarch Al B720 (G-BCBB) was leased to Air Ceylon between March-December 1977 Air Ceylon Boeing 720-023B London - Luton (LTN / EGGW) UK - England, July 1, 1977 Air Ceylon Lockheed L-188C Electra PH-LLD Dutch registered Air Ceylon Electra, leased from KLM. London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL) UK - England, 1961 Air Ceylon Douglas DC-8-41 Singapore - Paya Lebar (QPG / WSAP) Singapore, November 1976 Remark Air Ceylon Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E Singapore - Paya Lebar (QPG / WSAP) Singapore, December 1976 Aiir Ceylon Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E Kuala Lumpur - Subang / Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SZB / WMSA) Malaysia, March 1978 4R-ACN (cn 2135) "Maha Devi" Air Ceylon at Amsterdam Air Ceylon British Eagle at Ratmalana Air Ceylon Schedules fares and Freight Rates for Nov 1950 Time Table for March 1955 Time Table for April 1957 for 1959 For Winter 1963 For summer 1965 For 1970. Note now the flight is changed For 1972 for 1973 summer 1967 all details of fares and offices trident and Avro scedule Air Ceylon and Qantas Services guide time Table for April 1960 scaled Model of Air Ceylon Connie Spoon from Air Ceylon times Bristol frieghter Katunayake Jan 1960 RAF Water runway of Koggala. Capt. George Ferdinand Ferdy started on Air Ceylon at Rs. 10 per flying hour. was a product of Royal College, Colombo. He was barely eighteen when in 1941 he answered the Royal Air Force call for trainee pilots to help the war effort overseas. Following selection, he received his basic flying training at Ratmalana An Elephant towing a Corsair (Chance Vought F4U) fighter aircraft, at Airfield near Kalpitiya (Puttalam), Ceylon 1944. Landing in Koggala Landing at Katunayake 1957 RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957 Air Ceylon Sugar packet HS121 Trident 1E 4R-ACN Air Ceylon RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957 comet at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957 comet landing at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957 RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957 RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957 RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957 refueling at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957 Hawker Siddeley HS-748-212 Srs. 2 4R-ACJ at Katunayake RAF China Bay as it was in 1957. RAF Trincomalee, China Bay RNZAF 41 Sqn Freighter at Katunayeka 1957 Fly BOAC Ceylon DC 3 at Katunayake 1953 Mail Room at Ratmalana 1938 Ratmalana Air Port in 1950 Trincomalee China Bay RAF 1957 XD875 and another Valiant (and a Comet) at Negombo, Ceylon, 4th June 1958, en route to Butterworth RAF China Bay Airbase in 1957 all 7600 feet in Trincomalee, Elephant Beach at right... 1957 RAF China Bay Air base of the runway and the strategic oil tanks below, now only partially used Katunayake airport 1979 RAF C 130K Hercules DC 3,Comet, TWA Constellation & Valiant's at post Independance Katunayake Airbase Approaching Katunayke Airbase good 'oldays 1960 ! katunayake airbase been cleared for terminal 1960 Indian Navy Short Sealand at Trincomalee 1957.. Pakistan AF Bristol Freighter 1957 Trincomalee China Bay. The most secure harbour sought after by all super powers Chinabay Naval base 1957 from a RAF Sunderland.. . RAF China Bay Airbase Terminal view 1957 in Trinco - RAF bombed the Japs in Malaya from here and Liberator bombers also conducted patrols from this base RAF Sunderland taking off at Chinabay inner inlet,Sri Lanka 1957 China Bay RAF Sunderlands at anchor Trinco Harbour, Sri Lanka 1957 DC 3 Dakota at Palaly ,Jaffna 70's L to R Dave Souter, Bob Aspey and Dennis Wordsworth having arrived at Trinco on RCyAF Dove 1958 Katukurunda Airport 1942-1946 Katunayake in 1957/58 as taken by Tony Hawes with his Rolleiflex camera Xmas 1959 was a time to collect most of the signs from the different sections at RAF Katunayake, note the planks crossing the monsoon ditches