Air Lanka - Old is Gold

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එවකට පවතී අපේ ගුවන් සේවාව වන එයාර් ලංකා හි විශාල ස්වර්ණමය පින්තුර එකතුවක්.

එයාර් සිලෝන් නම් ගුවන් සේවය 1978දී බංකොලොත්වූ පසු 1979 ජුලි මස එයා ලංකා නම් ගුවන් සේවය පිහිටවනු ලැබීය.සින්ගප්පූරු ගුවන් සේවයෙන් බදු දි ගත් බෝයින් 707 ගුවන් යානා 2න් එයා ලංකා ගුවන් සේවය ඇරඹ්න. 1980 දි ගමනාන්ත සහ ගුවන් යානා සංඛ්‍යාව පුලුල් කරන ලදී. 1990 දී එයාර් ලන්කා ගුවන් සේවය ගමනාන්ත 26ක් දක්වා විහිදුවා හරිනු ලැබීමෙන් අනතුරුව 1992 දෙසැම්බර් මස ගුවන් බස් A320 මිලදී ගත්තේය. එයාර් ලන්කා ගුවන් සේවය 1998 ශ්‍රී ලන්කන් ලෙස වෙනස් විය.


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4R-ALA

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4R-ALA

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4R-ALA

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4R-ALB After service with AirLanka, this 707 was used by UK airline Tradewinds as a spares ship, before eventually being broken up at Shannon.

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4R-ALA Registration and Air Lanka markings removed as this 707 is slowly picked clean of parts. The undercarriage was already gone at this stage, judging by the wooden supports.

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4R-ALB

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4R-ALA එංගලන්තේ ගැට්වික් ගුවන්තොටුපලේදී

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4R-ALA

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ගුවනින් ගිය ප්‍රථම ආදිවාසීන්

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වැද්දන්ට Business Class :D:D

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Tristar Lockheed

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Boeing 747 -200 "King Tissa" Landing in Rome - Fiumicino (Leonardo da Vinci) (FCO / LIRF) Italy, June 1986

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King tissa ready to roll

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Tristar which was bombed in 83

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4R-ALA - Boeing 707-312B at Zurich (- Kloten) (ZRH / LSZH)
Switzerland, July 12, 1980

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King Tissa at Frankfurt am Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF) Germany, August 22, 1986

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4R-ALA - Paris - Orly (ORY / LFPO) France, April 18, 1981

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4R-ULF - "King Vijaya" at Basle / Mulhouse - Euro (BSL / MLH / LFSB) France, December 1984

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Old Crew Photo

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Old Crew Photo

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Crew with Late Mr & Mrs Jayawardana

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Air Sickness Bag - Mentioned in all 3 Languages

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Time Table November 1, 1980

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April 1, 1983

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November 1, 1983

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March 27, 1988

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March 29, 1992

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October 30, 1994

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March 28, 1999


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Air Lanka Spoon

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Ticket

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Air Lanka A340 launch Drawing

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Air Lanka Playing cards

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Former Sri Lankan President Mrs.Chandrika Kumaranatunga on board of Air Lanka flight from Pakistan – 1997

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Hanger for Air Lanka B747 at BIA under Construction

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Air Lanka A320 Safety Instructions Card

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UL staff with Late Mr.Gamini Dissanayake

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With Late Mr.Lalith Athulathmudali

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Some VIP delegate

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With Madam Hema Premadasa

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With Late Mr.R.Premadasa and Mrs. Premadasa

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Sandra Jayasuriya

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Sandra Jayasuriya

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With the Airlanka A340

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Crew with Lates Mr & Mrs Jayawardana

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Old Air Lanka Ground Staff sharing a laugh

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A340 at Amsterdam - Schiphol 1997

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A340 at Amsterdam - Schiphol 1997

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Frankfurt 1997

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At NRT 1998

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England Gatwick 1988

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Zurich 1992

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Zurich 1998

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Smoky engine start at Zurich 1998

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At Singapore Changi 1997

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Flight Deck of one of five Air Lanka's Tri Stars during eighties

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"King Tissa". Air Lanka operated two B747s to Europe and Far East in mid eighties. Here Pilots Priyantha and Channaka before King Tissa

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Tristar At Zurich

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A340 at Zurich

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Bangkok - International (Don Muang) DMK 1998

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At London Heathrow 1998

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UL A340 at zurich 1997

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UL TriStar 500 at Zurich 1997

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Landing at London Heathrow 1994

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FRA - 1995

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NRT 1999

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Close up of the Nose at Zurich
 
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On finals onto 27R at LHR

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Delivered to British Airways on 15 May 1981 as G-BHBP, but leased by Air Lanka from August 1991 until November 1994. Here the 4R-ULM is towed to the gate flight UL564 to Colombo from AMS 1992

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A combination of tails you'll never be able to see again, two Tristars (BWIA and Air Lanka) and an A310 (Delta Airlines) at Zurich 1993

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AIR LANKA 737-200 4R-ULO

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Colombo Bandarnaike International airport May 1985 ..transit in Colombo on a flight AMS/MCT/KHI/CMB/SIN

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Colombo Bandarnaike International airport January 1988 ...transit in Colombo in a flight AMS/AUH/CMB/MEL/SYD

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4R-ULG "King Tissa" Lift off from AMS in 80's. Sad to say now scrapped.

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City of Anuradhapura at AMS - The people in the white uniforms are guys from The Royal Dutch Navy, comming back from Iraq after serving in the Gulf War.

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Payphone card with Air Lanka Add

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"King Vijaya" 4R-ULF Boeing 747-238B at CDG 1986

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"City of Jayawardhanapura" 4R-ULB TriStar 500 is brought an engine to LTU for maintenance at DUC in 84

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Lufthansa Postcard with a UL tristar Landing

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UL's A340 and Ibaria's B747 crossing

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Airlanka's 707 at Gatwick

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UL 4R-ALA Boeing 707-312B at STN 1981

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UL 4R-TNK Lockheed L-1011-385-1-15 TriStar 100 at FRA

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JY-AGB - in Previous RJ registration at Malta

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707-312B 4R-ALA in the original 1979 colors taxies at Rome (FCO). The 4R-ALA registration has been recycled to an Airbus A330-243

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UL's 4R-ALE at CDG. Ex Air Canada CF-TNF

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4R-ULB at NRT

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"City of Kandy" 4R-ULJ

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JY-AGB Leased from Royal Jordanian

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"City of Anuradhapura" 4R-ULC at LHR

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4R-ADA landing at Hong Kong Kai Tak

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4R-ADA at Rome

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"City of Ratnapura" 4R-ULE Landing at ZRH March 1988

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"King Vijaya" at ZRH

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"King Tissa" at FRA

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4R-ULM Coming in for a Rwy 13 landing. Originally delivered to BA as G-BHBP. Leased to Air Lanka for 3 years as 4R-ULM. Later to Kalitta as N106CK. Still stored at VCV.

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4R-ULE

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"King Vijaya" 4R-ULF at AMS

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Air Lanka 4R-ULO Boeing 737-266 at Dublin 24/7/1992

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4R-ULB (L-1011-500) is seen here taxiing out for takeoff at Male airport, Maldives in january 1997

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4R-ALF at ZRH

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4R-ULB are getting ready to leave from AMS

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Air Lanka A340-300 Melbourne Tullamrine

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Those were the days....AirLanka Airbus A340-311; 4R-ADA@ZRH;04.04.1995
By Aero Icarus in Flickr

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HS121 Trident 1E 4R-ACN in Air Lanka colors before being scrapped in 1998

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AIR LANKA L-1011 TRISTAR 500 4R-ULA at Athens Hellinikon airport(closed)

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Air Lanka Girls

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Landing at AMS

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4R-ULA at Dusseldorf, Germany

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4R-ULF at Paris - Orly (ORY / LFPO)

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4R-ULA Deliverd new to Air Lanka in 1982 and leased to BA from 1985-88

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A close look at the engines on this Rolls Royce powered L1011 of Air Lanka

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Air Lanka Boeing 707 9Q-CBW
Boeing 707-329C
MSN 20200
Air Lanka (SCIBE Airlift Zaire)
December 1988. First time I ever saw a UL in this outfit. Nose is painted. nice.

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4R-ULH
Boeing 737-275
Air Lanka
Dublin 14/6/1985

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4R-ALA Boeing 707-312B, at Shannon 9/8/1981

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4R-ALB Boeing 707-312B
Douglas DC-7C
Shannon 9/8/1981

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4R-ALB Boeing 707-312B Shannon 9/8/1981

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4R-ULF getting repainted for Qantas, 1986

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Kangaroo over Peacock!

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Boeing 737-200 City of Galle at Hangar 4R-ULH


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City of Galle 4R-ULH



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City of Galle 4R-ULH

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City of Galle

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Spirit of SAARC

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4R-ABA

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"City of Colombo" in DXB in 1980s
ooohhhh really sad to see coz she was destroyed by an bomb attack by tamil terrorists back in 80'S ,i had rare pics taken as it happens but unfortunelty i lost them.

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"City of Kandy" 4R-ULJ at FRA

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"City of Sri Jayawardhanapura" 4R-ULA at NRT

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4R-ULF at Amsterdam Schiphol airport December 1985.

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4R-ULE Air Lanka Tristar Lockheed L-1011

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Air Lanka Boeing B707-312B 4R-ALB

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Patta machan!
den wage ne e dawas wala mara destination walata gihilla thiyenawane, Zurich, Australia

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දැනුත් Zurich වලටනම් පියාසර කරනවා. එත් ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාව වගේ රටවලට යන්නේ නැහැ. මොකද මගින් ප්‍රමාණය අඩු නිසා. නමුත් ඉස්සර අපේ ලංකාවේ සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය ඉහල මට්ටමක තිබ්බ. ඉතින් නිතර දෙවේලේ විදේශිකයෝ ලංකාවට ආව ගියා. දැන් ඉතින් සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය පාඩු ලබන තත්වයක් නේ තියෙන්නේ.