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	Airline History - Airlines by index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1972 a DC8-53 was leased from UTA for the London service which was painted in a pastel blue and orange livery.
		Air Ceylon bought their own DC8-43 from Air Canada in 1977 to replace this aircraft.
		Air Ceylon also leased a Boeing 720b jet at this time.
	airlines.afriqonline.com /airlines/190.htm (115 words)

	Sri Lanka Air Force
		Air Force has replaced the Union flag of the RAF ensign with the lion flag which was the flag of the country at that time.
		However when the Royal Ceylon Air Force ensign was designed in 1951, the RAF roundel of blue white and red was slightly modified by adding two wings of yellow and red/crimson to either side of the roundel.
		Maroon and yellow vertical stripes are the Sri Lankan Air Force fin flash which are the colours of the old flag of Kandy, the ancient kingdom in the centre of the island.
	www.fotw.net /Flags/lk^af.html (547 words)

	HMS Ceylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On 1 June Ceylon relieved the cruiser PHOEBE patrolling with a number of Indian sloops between the Mergui Achipelago and Port Blair in the Andaman Sea to prevent the evacuation of Japanese troops and supplies.
		CEYLON lay in reserve until 1950 when she was recommissioned in order to relieve the cruiser BIRMINGHAM on the East Indies Station.
		The bombardment was controlled from the air and her shells hit coastal defences on the approaches to Haeju, as well as enemy troops digging in behind the coast.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /ceylon.htm (2823 words)

	Pacific War article - Pacific War of Pacific South America Pacific Ocean Asia World II Japan Thailand - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Two major British warships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales were sunk by a Japanese air attack off Malaya on December 10, 1941.
		Meanwhile, Japanese aircraft had all but eliminated Allied air power in South-East Asia and were making many air raids on northern Australia, beginning with a disproportionately large and psychologically devastating attack on February 19, which killed hundreds of people in Darwin.
		The Doolittle Raid in April was a token but morale-boosting air attack on Japan, and although the Allied navies were narrowly defeated in tactical terms at the Battle of the Coral Sea, it still managed to derail a Japanese naval attack on Port Moresby, New Guinea.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Pacific_War (2742 words)

	222 Group RAF
		But as Air Headquarters, Ceylon, takes over from the old 222 Group there will come many changes, changes which will indicate that the days of war are now past and that the Royal Air Force on this island has assumed its peace-time status.
		In saying goodbye to 222 Group the people of Ceylon, in their turn, will recall how the last four years saw the building up of an island aircraft-carrier from the jungles and forest lands of their country.
		Ceylon's Liberators were quickly transformed into "mercy" aircraft.
	www.rquirk.com /speech222gp.html (1783 words)

	Sri Lanka The Air Force - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		In its early years, the air force was engaged primarily in immigration patrol, with occasional assistance in emergency relief.
		The air force had a fleet of approximately eighty aircraft, of which sixty-four were reported to be operational in early 1988.
		Air traffic controllers receive schooling at special facilities in Colombo, and weapons familiarity training is conducted in conjunction with the other services at the Army Training Centre in Diyatalawa.
	www.photius.com /countries/sri_lanka/national_security/sri_lanka_national_security_the_air_force.html (964 words)

	Alternate Campaigns: Asia and the Pacific
		The Japanese were attacking with the 11th Koku Kantai (Air Fleet) based in Tainan (the first Japanese fleet without ships) and the 5th Hikoshidan, based in originally IndoChina and moved to northern Luzon as airfields were made available.
		After Japanese air attacks on the transport group the previous two days (which could not find the more remote carrier group), he decided that the carriers and their escort should leave.
		The Japanese air effort was mostly an all-navy affair due to a variety of all-Japanese squabbling from August to December and because until there were closer bases, no army aircraft that came to Rabaul had the range to help.
	uncleted.jinak.cz /altcamp4.htm (5575 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Sri Lankan Experience of World Wars
		Sri Lanka or Ceylon as it was known in colonial times held a strategic position in the Indian Ocean astride the allied sea route linking Australia, India and the Middle East.
		During World War II Ceylon was a naval and air force base, a training ground for jungle warfare and a hospital and leave centre.
		Ceylon's saviour(The youthful Commander of the Catalina, Squadron Leader Leonard J. Birchall and his eight-member crew went beyond the call of duty in pursuing a 'fl speck on the horizon' at the risk of their lives.)
	www.lankalibrary.com /geo/ww.htm (570 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Japanese 1st Air Strike Fleet had destroyed the remaining Far East Allied naval presence in the Java Sea, attacked Darwin, and was poised to enter the Indian Ocean unopposed.
		The outlook for the Allies was grim, and the attention of British planning staffs focused on the defence of Ceylon, which was seen as the strategic centre of gravity.
		Two fighter Squadrons (30 & 258) were transferred from the Middle East, along with a Catalina Squadron (413), to bolster the air forces on the island, and a large fleet of mostly obsolete warships was assembled to form a new Eastern Fleet.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/ceylon.html (430 words)

	Living in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
		The cry for freedom and independence grew stronger in the 1930s and the Ceylon National Congress were calling for responsible government for the people of Ceylon, others followed the Gandhian ideal of 'swaraj,' advocating more forceful expressions of opposition to British rule.
		Vernon travelled from Ratmalana Airport on the outskirts of Colombo.This airport was at one time Ceylon's main terminal with the Dakota DC-4 planes and the Lockheed 749 Constellation airacraft of Air Ceylon flying in to land at Ratmalana.
		In 1934 the State Council of Ceylon made a historic decision to construct an aerodrome and found that Ratmalana was the best area because it was within easy reach of the capital city of Colombo.
	ivan_corea.tripod.com /id30.html (2859 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pacific War
		Meanwhile, Japanese aircraft had all but eliminated Allied air power in South-East Asia and were making attacks on northern Australia, beginning with a disproportionately large, and psychologically devastating attack on the city of Darwin on February 19, which killed at least 243 people.
		The RAAF Roundel is based on that of the British Royal Air Force, with the central circle replaced by a Kangaroo, a symbol of Australia.
		A mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 60,000 feet (18 km) into the air on the morning of August 9, 1945.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pacific-War (10844 words)

	Pacific War Article, PacificWar Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Two major Britishwarships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales were sunk by a Japanese air attack off Malaya on December 10, 1941.
		Meanwhile, Japanese aircraft had all but eliminated Allied air power in South-East Asia and were making many air raids onnorthern Australia, beginning with a disproportionately large and psychologicallydevastating attack on February 19, which killed hundreds of people in Darwin.
		The Doolittle Raid in April was a token but morale-boosting air attack on Japan, and although the Allied navieswere narrowly defeated in tactical terms at the Battle ofthe Coral Sea, it still managed to derail a Japanese naval attack on PortMoresby, New Guinea.
	www.anoca.org /japan/japanese/pacific_war.html (2520 words)

	Pacific War -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Meanwhile, Japanese aircraft had all but eliminated Allied air power in South-East Asia and were making (additional info and facts about attacks on northern Australia) attacks on northern Australia, beginning with a disproportionately large, and psychologically devastating attack on the city of Darwin on February 19, which killed at least 243 people.
		Japanese air power had also driven the British fleet out of (An island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India) Ceylon.
		(Air attacks on the US mainland were insignificant, comprising balloon-based materials and a submarine-based seaplane fire-bombing a forest in (A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific) Oregon, September 9 1942.)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pacific_war.htm (4090 words)

	Ceylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was a piece of bad luck for the Japanese that a Canadian squadron of patrol aircraft arrived in Ceylon just as they were steaming toward the island with an invasion fleet.
		After an 8000 mile flight from Norway, the squadron had hardly gotten used to their tropical surroundings when Birchall's Canso, and others, were ordered out over the Indian Ocean south of Ceylon to search for a possible Japanese threat to the naval base and harbour at Colombo, the capital of Ceylon.
		Leonard Birchall was awarded the DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross) as the "savior of Ceylon".
	www.nt.net /~toby/ceylon.html (792 words)

	Kingston Flying Club - About our Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Near the end of the patrol, a vast armada of Imperial Japanese Navy warships, including three carriers, was sighted steaming toward Ceylon, with the intention of surprising heavy surface units of the Royal Navy.
		Until 1996 he was actively involved in the Air Reserve, held various honorary appointments and devoted himself to numerous public service initiatives.
		Although The Daily Telegraph reported at the time that there was talk about erecting a memorial to Birchall, it was not until the end of the war that he learnt of his award of a DFC for his unique mission.
	www.kingstonflyingclub.com /about_us_len_birchall.htm (1795 words)

	ipedia.com: Pacific War Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Meanwhile, Japanese aircraft had all but eliminated Allied air power in South-East Asia and were making many air raids on northern Australia, beginning with a disproportionately large and psychologically devastating attack on February 19, which killed about 200 people in Darwin.
		The Doolittle Raid in April was a token but morale-boosting air attack on Japan, and although the US Navy was narrowly defeated in tactical terms at the Battle of the Coral Sea, it still managed to derail a Japanese naval attack oon Port Moresby, New Guinea.
		In early September, at the eastern tip of New Guinea, Japan's land forces suffered their first outright defeat of the war, after Japanese marines attacked a Royal Australian Air Force base, defended by units from the 7th Division and some US forces, in the Battle of Milne Bay.
	www.ipedia.com /pacific_war_1.html (2573 words)

	National Carrier
		Air Lanka began in January 1979 to take over the routes of the old Air Ceylon.
		Singapore Airlines leased Air Lanka a couple of Boeing 707s which were flown in full Air Lanka colors.
		Air Lanka fleet comprised of Airbus A340, Tristar 500, Tristar 100, Airbus A320.
	atcsl.tripod.com /national_carrier.htm (222 words)

	The Royal Air Force
		The journey from Ceylon to Gan was some 600 miles in distance and took approximately three hours to reach, although on a previous detachment to Gan in May 1959 my journey there to Gan lasted four hours and five minutes in, again, another Hastings aircraft.
		ATC was positioned on the north side of the island approximately one third of the way down the runway from the Fedhoo causeway (West) with direct access to the runway for emergency vehicles to enter.
		John Bawden worked in Air Traffic Control on Gan and recalls that we were all taken to Station Sick Quarters (SSQ) and apart from some that had ingested fuel, oil and sea water that fortunately no serious injuries were sustained.
	splashdown2.tripod.com (10915 words)

	Economy - India Bilateral Treaties and Agreements - Volume 1
		In the event of the conclusion of a multilateral convention or agreement concerning air transport to which both Contracting Parties adhere, this Agreement shall be modified to conform with the provisions of such convention or agreement.
		An airline designated by the Government of Ceylon shall be entitled to operate air services in both directions on each of the routes specified in this paragraph and to land for traffic purposes in the territory of India at the points therein specified.
		The Ceylon Government for its part would wish to state that the use of Kankesanturai air-field by the designated carrier(s) of the Government of India will not be available until such time as adequate traffic handling facilities are established at that airport.
	meaindia.nic.in /treatiesagreement/1948/chap11.htm (2068 words)

	Sri Lanka, since 1971
		Ceylon, an island in the Indian Ocean, located to the south of the Indian subcontinent, became independent in 1948, at the same time with India and Pakistan: like in these two countries the population of Sri Lanka consists of several nationalities, which clashed in conflicts of different intensity time and again.
		Ceylon, renamed Sri Lanka in the 1960s, is 445km long and 225km wide.
		Without surprise, the air strikes therefore resulted in an angry reaction from the rebels, who warned that the Sri Lankan government is going to bear the full responsibility for consequences...
	www.acig.org /artman/publish/article_336.shtml (14020 words)

	Tamil Canadian Services: Tamil Eelam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Approaching Ceylon however Japanese pilots were taken aback when they found, unlike during the raid on Colombo, a squadron of Hurricanes and another of Fulmars waiting to pounce on them from a higher altitude.
		The Blenhiems flew across Ceylon without any fighter protection because whatever was left of the Hurricanes after the raid on Colombo, four days previously, needed a major overhaul before undertaking battle duties, and those from China Bay were busy getting ready to take on the Zeros and Kates.
		He decided the two ships should return to Ceylon, but rather than making for Trincomalee harbour, to try slipping into a bay or lagoon that was deep enough to accommodate a vessel as large as an aircraft carrier and destroyer, to avoid being spotted by the Japanese bombers.
	www.tamilcanadian.com /pageview.php?ID=2403&SID=455 (2007 words)

	Little known museums of Sri Lanka
		A total of 12 such aircraft were delivered to the Royal Ceylon Air Force in 1953 and many were used as trainer craft before being withdrawn from service and displayed in the museum.
		The aircraft on display was manufactured in 1943 and was acquired by the SLAF from Air Ceylon in 1975 for the transport of military personnel.
		The same could be said of the Mikoyan Gourevich MIG acquired by the Royal Ceylon Air Force from the USSR during the 1971 insurgency.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/slaf.htm (1400 words)

	Comet 4 Airlines de Havilland Comet
		Air Ceylon was founded by their Government in 1947 and its connection with the Comet was that the airline, in 1962, leased a Comet 4 from BOAC so as to provide once weekly services between London and Singapore.
		Air Ceylon has also flown G-APDC, in each case in 1963.
		The modified Comets were to be allocated to SKAT (Seychelles-Kilimanjaro Air transport) which had been formed in 1960, as a subsidiary of E.A.A, to operate long-haul charter flights.
	www.dlyoung.freeserve.co.uk /DH106/comet_4world2.htm (2358 words)

	air noosa- QUOTES17
		It was 1977 and we were on an old DC8 Air Ceylon coming in to Colombo, Ceylon from Bangkok.
		If you are a woman, and are coming to the flying field seeking stimulation, excitement and flattery, you had better stay away until flying is a little bit safer.
		Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night................
	www.airnoosa.com /index.php?id=17 (1290 words)

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	Vernon - Sri Lanka's pioneering Broadcaster
		Announcers were the 'pop stars' of that generation and Radio Ceylon occupied a very special place in the hearts of South Asians in India, West Pakistan, East Pakistan, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and there were listeners even in Burma.
		Australia sent Clifford.R.Dodd to Radio Ceylon under the 'Plan' and it was a 'ground breaking' experience, as far as broadcasting in Ceylon was concerned.
		Duke Ellington, the great Jazz pianist visited Ceylon in the 1960s, he was whisked to the studios of Radio Ceylon for a recording and he met Vernon (who had taken along his sons to meet the great man).
	ivan_corea.tripod.com /id3.html (2754 words)

	LankaWeb News
		One of Sri Lanka's pioneer commercial aviation professionals and a former operations director of Air Lanka and the Trans World Airlines (TWA) Ronnie Ranasinghe (69) died in Los Angeles.
		Ronnie Ranasinghe who started his aviation career with Sri Lanka's pioneer flag carrier, Air Ceylon, as an operations manager in 1946 later became the operations manager for the US carrier TWA in Colombo.
		He went back to serve his motherland as the CEO of Air Lanka from 1984 to 1990 on the special request of the government of Sri Lanka.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items02/080402-1.html (237 words)

	Maldives Tourism History, Telecommunication, Transport. Airport, Hulhule
		Air transport is the major and prime method to reach the Maldives from Western Europe and other countries.
		The courier was an Air Ceylon Avro aircraft, which had a capacity of 44 passengers.
		A new era of air transport began when the airport was upgraded to an international level in 1981.
	www.thisismaldives.com /tourhistory2.htm (1781 words)

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