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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prashan3000" data-source="post: 12609927" data-attributes="member: 350782">At Ratmalana  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102198733160975_100001125462953_17324_2164162_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Air CeylonHawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1EParis - Le Bourget (LBG / LFPB)France, June 7, 1969     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102198739827641_100001125462953_17325_1205265_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      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.     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102198743160974_100001125462953_17326_8288812_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Air CeylonDe Havilland DH-106 Comet 4Kuala Lumpur - Sungai Besi / Simpang (WMKF)Malaysia, 1963     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953</a>  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102200673160781_100001125462953_17352_5354258_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Air CeylonBoeing 720-023BLondon - Luton (LTN / EGGW)UK - England, July 1, 1977  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102200689827446_100001125462953_17354_3105094_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Air CeylonLockheed L-188C Electra PH-LLD Dutch registered Air Ceylon Electra, leased from KLM.London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL)UK - England, 1961     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102200696494112_100001125462953_17355_2406643_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>     Air CeylonDouglas DC-8-41Singapore - Paya Lebar (QPG / WSAP)Singapore, November 1976Remark     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102200699827445_100001125462953_17356_1686212_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>     Air CeylonHawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1ESingapore - Paya Lebar (QPG / WSAP)Singapore, December 1976     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102204783160370_100001125462953_17385_646263_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>     Air Ceylon  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102923579755157_100001125462953_24374_983377_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      British Eagle at Ratmalana     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_102923586421823_100001125462953_24375_5929378_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Time Table for March 1955     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102923596421822_100001125462953_24377_6371756_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102925399754975_100001125462953_24387_4905895_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102925403088308_100001125462953_24388_4061355_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      For 1972     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102927626421419_100001125462953_24424_5631324_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      for 1973     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102927629754752_100001125462953_24425_1740140_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>           <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102962606417921_100001125462953_25164_3644539_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>   Spoon from Air Ceylon times     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102965339750981_100001125462953_25196_8350806_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Bristol frieghter Katunayake Jan 1960 RAF        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102965343084314_100001125462953_25197_16037_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Water runway of Koggala.     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102965349750980_100001125462953_25198_2681180_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Capt. George FerdinandFerdy  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        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_102965353084313_100001125462953_25199_4300485_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      An Elephant towing a Corsair (Chance Vought F4U) fighter aircraft, at Airfield near Kalpitiya (Puttalam), Ceylon 1944.        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102968783083970_100001125462953_25225_3530402_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Landing in Koggala     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102968789750636_100001125462953_25226_1559873_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Landing at Katunayake 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102968796417302_100001125462953_25227_5963079_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957      comet at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102973876416794_100001125462953_25268_2416035_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      comet landing at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102973879750127_100001125462953_25269_1027024_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_102973886416793_100001125462953_25270_7455366_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102974953083353_100001125462953_25272_6982986_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_102974959750019_100001125462953_25273_383846_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      refueling at RAF Negombo/Katunayake Ceylon 1957        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_102983673082481_100001125462953_25359_4198966_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Hawker Siddeley HS-748-212 Srs. 2 4R-ACJ at Katunayake     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103186633062185_100001125462953_27240_3050270_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RAF China Bay as it was in 1957.     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_103186643062184_100001125462953_27241_6134804_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RAF Trincomalee, China Bay     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103186649728850_100001125462953_27242_1175004_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RNZAF 41 Sqn Freighter at Katunayeka 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_103186656395516_100001125462953_27243_3110410_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Fly BOAC Ceylon        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103571416357040_100001125462953_32044_5522803_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      DC 3 at Katunayake 1953     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_103571423023706_100001125462953_32045_3257758_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Mail Room at Ratmalana 1938     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_103571426357039_100001125462953_32046_4162990_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Ratmalana Air Port in 1950        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_103571433023705_100001125462953_32047_6488744_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Trincomalee China Bay RAF 1957        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103571439690371_100001125462953_32048_1937615_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>         XD875 and another Valiant (and a Comet) at Negombo, Ceylon, 4th June 1958, en route to Butterworth        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103575226356659_100001125462953_32064_2618212_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RAF China Bay Airbase in 1957 all 7600 feet in Trincomalee, Elephant Beach at right...     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_103575233023325_100001125462953_32065_5644240_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      1957 RAF China Bay Air base of the runway and the strategic oil tanks below, now only partially used     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_103575239689991_100001125462953_32066_900535_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Katunayake airport 1979 RAF C 130K Hercules        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_103575246356657_100001125462953_32067_1261190_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      DC 3,Comet, TWA Constellation & Valiant's at post Independance Katunayake Airbase        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_103575253023323_100001125462953_32068_206994_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Approaching Katunayke Airbase good 'oldays 1960 !     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103577433023105_100001125462953_32084_4487165_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>     katunayake airbase been cleared for terminal 1960     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103577439689771_100001125462953_32085_5296509_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Indian Navy Short Sealand at Trincomalee 1957..        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103577443023104_100001125462953_32086_8161567_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Pakistan AF Bristol Freighter 1957 Trincomalee     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103577449689770_100001125462953_32087_7729917_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      China Bay. The most secure harbour sought after by all super powers     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_103577453023103_100001125462953_32088_2774776_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      Chinabay Naval base 1957 from a RAF Sunderland.. .     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_103578909689624_100001125462953_32173_972607_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      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     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs533.snc3/30240_103578916356290_100001125462953_32175_6738423_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      RAF Sunderland taking off at Chinabay inner inlet,Sri Lanka 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs553.snc3/30240_103578923022956_100001125462953_32177_5266828_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      China Bay RAF Sunderlands at anchor Trinco Harbour, Sri Lanka 1957     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16924&id=100001125462953" target="_blank"><img src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs513.ash1/30240_103580526356129_100001125462953_32205_3156079_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>      DC 3 Dakota at Palaly ,Jaffna 70's</blockquote>

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