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Airflight Limited was a British charter, and cargo airline from 1948 to 1950. == History == The airline was formed by former Air Vice-Marshall Don Bennett to operate in the Berlin Airlift operating two long-fuselage Avro Tudor aircraft.〔Merton Jones 1972, page 13〕 These were flown by Bennett and a single other pilot. Bennett having the only night flight licence made all the nighttime trips himself. One of the Tudor aircraft had operated 85 sorties carrying over 9 tons of supplies per flight between Wunsdorf and Gatow.〔 At the end of the Berlin Airlift the aircraft were used for trooping charters to the Canal Zone for the British government and ''ad hoc'' charters. One of the charters was to end in disaster when G-AKBY was used for a rugby charter and crashed on approach to RAF Llandow in Wales on 12 March 1950. The month after the disaster the company merged into one of Bennett's other companies Fairflight Limited on 28 April 1950.〔 In 1951, Bennett sold Airflight on to Air Charter, a small company operating out of Luton under Freddie Laker.〔Maynard p192〕 The company was formally wound up in 1965. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Airflight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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