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Handley Page Hastings T.5
Aircraft & Exhibits, MAR 1948-AUG 1977, Cosford, Hangar Four, 85/A/9
The Handley Page Hastings replaced the Avro York as the Royal Air Force’s standard long-range transport from 1948. Two squadrons of the new aircraft served alongside the Avro York throughout the Berlin Airlift, flying vital supplies into the city during the Soviet blockade.
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- Transport Command (RAF)
- 1 Reception Unit (RAF) [1]
- 147 Squadron (RAF) [1]
- 20 Maintenance Unit (RAF) [1]
- 202 Squadron (RAF) [1]
- 230 Operational Conversion Unit (RAF) [1]
- 462 Squadron (RAAF) [1]
- 47 Squadron (RAF) [1]
- 5 Maintenance Unit (RAF) [1]
- 60 Maintenance Unit (RAF) [1]
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- Plainfare, 1948-1949
- Battle of Britain, 1940 [2]
- Cold War, 1946-1989 [2]
- United Kingdom, Bombing of, 1939-1945 [2]
- Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949 [1]
- Blitz, The, 1940-1941 [1]
- Hydra, 1943 [1]
- Pearl Harbour, Attack on, 1941 [1]
- Schneider Trophy Contest (general) [1]
- Vittles, 1948-1949 [1]