| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | G-ALDE |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Handley Page HP-81/82 Hermes |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Handley Page HP-81 Hermes |
| Aircraft Version: | Handley Page HP-81 Hermes 4 |
| C/n (msn): | HP.81/6 |
| Operator Titles: | BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation |
| Aircraft Name: | Hanno |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| City / Airport: | Lagos - Murtala MuhammedMap |
| Country: | Nigeria |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: DNMM IATA: LOS Local: - Other: - |
| Photo Date: | June 1950 to September 1954 |
| Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
| Photo ID: | 634477 |
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The Hermes 4 entered BOAC service in 1950 and proving flights on the West Africa route to Kano, Lagos and Accra began in June. The type was already replaced two years later by the Canadair C-4 Argonaut, although it made a brief comeback with BOAC in 1954 after the grounding of the DH Comet. We made a different crop of the same original photo for the West African Airways Corporation Dove, VR-NIB. Photo by: Edward Duckworth / Northwestern University Libraries, Illinois This photo was added on 25 December 2023, and has since been viewed 525 times. |