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DC3 flights

Postby expat » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:27 am

Quite sometime back it was reported that DC3's could no longer be used for pleasure flights due to EU regulations. Air Atlantique no longer offer flights because the DC3 is a gnats tagger to high and would require escape slides ::) ::). You can now, as advertised on the Air Atlantique website go for a Taxi trip (at
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Re: DC3 flights

Postby Rich H » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:16 pm

I remember Coventry airport used to do DC-3 flights, I'm not sure if they still do.
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