Extreme Soft Lab: HISTORY OF SRI LANKAN AIR LINES

At Ratmalana

Air Ceylon
Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1EParis - Le Bourget (LBG / LFPB)
France, June 7, 1969

Air Ceylon De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 - Kuala Lumpur - Sungai Besi / Simpang (WMKF) Malaysia, 1963 G-APDC Taken on a trip from Ceylon to Singapore during a stopover at Kuala Lumpur.

Air Ceylon
De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4Kuala Lumpur - Sungai Besi / Simpang (WMKF)
Malaysia, 1963

Air Ceylon
Douglas DC-8-53Miami - International (MIA / KMIA)
USA - Florida, May 1979

Air Ceylon Boeing 720-023B at London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL) UK - England, July 29, 19774R-ACS This Monarch Al B720 (G-BCBB) was leased to Air Ceylon between March-December 1977

Air Ceylon
Boeing 720-023BLondon - Luton (LTN / EGGW)
UK - England, July 1, 1977

Air Ceylon
Lockheed L-188C Electra PH-LLD Dutch registered Air Ceylon Electra, leased from KLM.London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL)
UK - England, 1961

Air Ceylon
Douglas DC-8-41Singapore - Paya Lebar (QPG / WSAP)
Singapore, November 1976
Remark

Air Ceylon
Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1ESingapore - Paya Lebar (QPG / WSAP)
Singapore, December 1976

Aiir Ceylon
Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1EKuala Lumpur - Subang / Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SZB / WMSA) Malaysia, March 1978
4R-ACN (cn 2135)

"Maha Devi" Air Ceylon at Amsterdam

Air Ceylon

British Eagle at Ratmalana

Air Ceylon Schedules fares and Freight Rates for Nov 1950

Time Table for March 1955

Time Table for April 1957

for 1959

For Winter 1963

For summer 1965

For 1970. Note now the flight is changed

For 1972

for 1973

summer 1967

all details of fares and offices

trident and Avro scedule

Air Ceylon and Qantas Services guide

time Table for April 1960

scaled Model of Air Ceylon Connie

Spoon from Air Ceylon times

Bristol frieghter Katunayake Jan 1960 RAF

Water runway of Koggala.

Capt. George Ferdinand

Ferdy started on Air Ceylon at Rs. 10 per flying hour. was a product of Royal College, Colombo. He was barely eighteen when in 1941 he answered the Royal Air Force call for trainee pilots to help the war effort overseas. Following selection, he received his basic flying training at Ratmalana

An Elephant towing a Corsair (Chance Vought F4U) fighter aircraft, at Airfield near Kalpitiya (Puttalam), Ceylon 1944.

Landing in Koggala

Landing at Katunayake 1957

RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

Air Ceylon Sugar packet

HS121 Trident 1E 4R-ACN Air Ceylon

RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

comet at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

comet landing at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

refueling at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957

Hawker Siddeley HS-748-212 Srs. 2 4R-ACJ at Katunayake

RAF China Bay as it was in 1957.

RAF Trincomalee, China Bay

RNZAF 41 Sqn Freighter at Katunayeka 1957

Fly BOAC Ceylon

DC 3 at Katunayake 1953

Mail Room at Ratmalana 1938

Ratmalana Air Port in 1950

Trincomalee China Bay RAF 1957

XD875 and another Valiant (and a Comet) at Negombo, Ceylon, 4th June 1958, en route to Butterworth

RAF China Bay Airbase in 1957 all 7600 feet in Trincomalee, Elephant Beach at right...

1957 RAF China Bay Air base of the runway and the strategic oil tanks below, now only partially used

Katunayake airport 1979 RAF C 130K Hercules

DC 3,Comet, TWA Constellation & Valiant's at post Independance Katunayake Airbase

Approaching Katunayke Airbase good 'oldays 1960 !

katunayake airbase been cleared for terminal 1960

Indian Navy Short Sealand at Trincomalee 1957..

Pakistan AF Bristol Freighter 1957 Trincomalee

China Bay. The most secure harbour sought after by all super powers

Chinabay Naval base 1957 from a RAF Sunderland...

RAF China Bay Airbase Terminal view 1957 in Trinco - RAF bombed the Japs in Malaya from here and Liberator bombers also conducted patrols from this base