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Aden
Airways Pilots
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Aden Airways
crew with DC3 VR-AAC up-country. |
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Chief Pilots
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Start |
End |
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J Banks |
1949 |
1950 |
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S Colvin |
1950 |
1953 |
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J Pascoe |
1953 |
1955 |
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G Dyer |
1955 |
1956 |
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H Mills |
1956 |
1958 |
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W Burman |
1958 |
1964 |
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Vic Spencer |
1964 |
1967 |
Alan Bodger? |
Captains
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Start |
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Walbran |
1949 |
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Ward |
1949 |
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Beale |
1949 |
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Mills |
1949 |
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Pascoe |
1949 |
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Banks |
1949 |
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Colvin |
1949 |
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Maxwell-Lipkin |
1949 |
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Beatty |
1949 |
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Spencer, Vic |
1953 |
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MacDonald |
1954 |
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Creigh |
1954 |
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Gauss |
1954 |
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Harris |
1954 |
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Barnes |
1954 |
Former copilot |
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Adams |
1955 |
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Branson |
1955 |
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Williamson |
1955 |
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Wood |
1955 |
Former copilot |
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Hamblin |
1955 |
Former copilot |
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Jennings |
1955 |
Former copilot |
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Lawson |
1956 |
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Parker |
1956 |
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Mister |
1956 |
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Larcombe |
1956 |
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Ball |
1956 |
Former copilot |
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Williamson |
1957 |
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Dyer |
1958 |
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Dinnie |
1958 |
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Manlove, Dicki |
1958 |
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Elgee |
1958 |
Former copilot |
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Fox |
1959 |
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Whittaker |
1959 |
Former copilot |
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Murray |
1959 |
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Nanit |
1960 |
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Burman |
1960 |
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Duir |
1961 |
Former copilot |
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Pike |
1962 |
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Van Elst |
1962 |
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Wilmot |
1963 |
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Emsley |
1963 |
Former copilot |
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Johns |
1964 |
Former copilot |
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Atkinson |
1964 |
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Van der Laan |
1965 |
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MacDonald |
1966 |
Former copilot |
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Gilpin |
1966 |
Former copilot |
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Kozubski,
Marian |
1966 |
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Broadhurst |
1966 |
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Colman |
1966 |
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Webb |
1966 |
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Dunsmore |
1966 |
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Co-Pilots
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Start |
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Clayton |
1949 |
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Croskell |
1949 |
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Painter |
1949 |
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Perry |
1949 |
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Downing |
1949 |
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Skinner |
1949 |
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Buckley |
1949 |
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Castle |
1949 |
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O'Neil |
1954 |
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Jennings |
1954 |
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Barnes |
1954 |
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Robinson |
1954 |
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Rush |
1954 |
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Borsberry |
1954 |
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McMurchy |
1954 |
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Wood |
1955 |
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Lorimer |
1955 |
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Elgee |
1955 |
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Grove |
1955 |
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Goows |
1955 |
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Hamblin |
1955 |
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Kay |
1956 |
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Wigley |
1956 |
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Benton |
1956 |
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Cubitt |
1956 |
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Ball |
1956 |
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Scott |
1957 |
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Hayes |
1957 |
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Stewart |
1958 |
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Warrington |
1958 |
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Whittaker |
1958 |
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Smith |
1958 |
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Rose |
1959 |
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Woodhill |
1959 |
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Austin |
1959 |
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Thomas |
1959 |
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Turvill |
1959 |
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Shields |
1959 |
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Pearman |
1960 |
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Emmett, Alex. |
1960 |
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Knight |
1961 |
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Keene |
1961 |
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Johns |
1961 |
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Gordon |
1961 |
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Wallis |
1961 |
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Duir |
1961 |
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Brent |
1961 |
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Watson |
1962 |
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Musgrove |
1963 |
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Emsley |
1963 |
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Hewitt |
1963 |
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Slaughter |
1963 |
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Carson |
1963 |
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Marlow |
1964 |
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Steven |
1964 |
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Cooper |
1964 |
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Slugget |
1964 |
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Gilpin |
1964 |
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Browne |
1965 |
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Chapman |
1965 |
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Bidwell |
1965 |
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Hampson |
1965 |
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Spouse |
1965 |
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Smith |
1965 |
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Bailey |
1965 |
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May |
1966 |
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Wahed |
1966 |
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Dordi |
1966 |
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Armstrong |
1966 |
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Bob Hayes, first officer on
left. Captain Matt Murray on right.
Taken in Cairo
aboard Aden Airways C4 Argonaut.
Vic Spencer
TREVOR AUSTIN
BOB
HAYES
MATT MURRAY
- Flew in UK prior to Aden Airways for Air Lingus. Ex
Arab Airways. Retired first to Bedfordshire and later to
Ireland.
CAPTAIN JACK LAWSON
(Argonauts)FIRST
OFFICER GEOFFREY WALLIS (DC3)
TONY MAY - Co-pilot
till early 1967.
PETER MESSENGER - flew for Aden Airways in 1949 when he
joined BOAC. He went on to be a Senior 707 Captain
before converting to DC10. Sadly he passed away in 1977.
"POP" JENNINGS flew
for Aden Airways in 1966-1967. Pop Jennings
was an ex-WWII pilot and he made regular trips to Mukeiras where I spent most of my time. In the event
that there are Aden Airways Pilots who did that run,
perhaps they may remember the Welsh NCO who was
responsible for the manifests, baggage searches etc -
that was me, Brian.
taff73@fsmail.net
MARIAN KOZUBSKI,
late of the Polish Air Force [died 1979] flew with
Aden Airways circa 1966/7.
Writer and TV presenter Clive James wrote a composite
and exaggerated portrait of the stereotype airline
buccaneer of the time, which seems to allude to Kozubski,
although it strangely omits his moustache and beard. "I
had made the mistake of looking out of the window at the
moment when the pilot arrived by Jeep. He was wearing an
eye-patch, walked with a stiff leg and saluted the
aircraft with what appeared to be an aluminium hand.
Around his neck the silver brassard of what appeared to
be a Polish Award for bravery gleamed in the weak
sunlight" Whatever the truth of this, the real Kozubski
was the stuff of anecdotes if not legends. When in
dispute with an airpor | 
