1st July 1965

 FAROE 601 AKRABERG 15:45 F060 ETA EKVG (Vagar) 16:05 cancelling IFR flight plan and proceeding VF dct EKVG

Faroe Airways, D.H. 114 Heron, OY-DPO. Leased from Scanfly, Sweden and withdrawn from service when their first DC-3, OY-DMN entered service on 19/07/1965. The Heron was later ferried to Canada as CF-JFH and converted to an ST27 with Saunders Aircraft Co, Gimli, Monitoba in 1971. Deregistered in 1999.

[Photo credit: via Robert Foden]

10th July 1965

MATS 40145 54n 15w 18:57 F140 55n 20w 19:42 endurance 10hrs 50 min

USAF C-133A Cargomaster, 54-0145 with 1607th ATW based Dover AFB.

This machine was retired into the MASDC, AZ on 6th April 1971 and was later assigned to the Pima Air Museum, AZ but returned to the 'boneyard' by 1975. It was subsequently sold to the Northern Air Cargo and registered N199AB and flow to Anchorage, AK in February 1977. It was later operated under the banner of Cargomaster Corporation and was only retired from service in 2008, when it was flown to the Travis Air Force base museum.

[Photo: at Anchorage, AK on 10th September 2004 © Malcolm Nason]

[Please excuse the 'out-of-sequence' posting but this was initially recorded in the HF log mistakenly as a C-130 (64-0145) but look at the elapsed time taken for five degrees!]

30th July 1965

VC 17506 53n 20w 1803 F090 53n 15w 1852 Shannon 2000

Canadian Air Force C-54M, 17506

28th July 1965

MATS 61999 43n 15w 2132 F150 43.30n 13w 2151 44.09n 10w 2218

USAF C-133A Cargomaster, 56-1999 with the 1607th ATW, Dover AFB.
This machine ended its service life in the MASDC, AZ where it arrived on 13th March 1971 and was scrapped by May 1974.

12th July 1965

CP 597 departed Belfast 1118/23 o/head Shannon 1209 F200 descending F180 48.40n 15w 1327 45n 20w 1432 ETA Santa Maria 1620

Canadian Pacific, Britannia (?) (tail number anyone?)

KS 953P departed Malmo 1308, ETA EGPK/Prestwick 1610

Saturn Airways DC-7C, N953P

9th July 1965

RFR 4321 Scottish FIR at 57.32n 04.10e 1033 F120 VMC Preston FIR at 55n 01.20e 1124

RAF Argosy

VVV 31539 59.40n 10w 1100 F070 STN/Stornoway 1152

U S Navy SP-2E Neptune, 131539

EI 105 56n 20w 1731 F370 56n 30w 1815 Mach .82 SelCal CHJM

Aer Lingus B.707-348C, EI-ANO

5th July 1965

Gateway OC ETA Venice 0005, please relay to Shannon Air

Shannon Air DC-7C, EI-AOC

VVV 49677 69.15n 10w 2200 F190 71.35n 01w 2242

U S Navy P-3A, 149677

G-AOVA departed London 44.43n 06.14w 2216 F180 42.05n 08.12w 2254 PO 2304 ETA Lisbon 2330 SelCal CEFJ

British Eagle Britannia, G-AOVA