Douglas Skymasters of US Air Transport Command at Gatow.

Bristol Wayfarer G-AHJC and RAF Yorks at Gatow in 1948.

RAF Avro Yorks, seen here at Gatow in September 1948, moved 230,000 tons of supplies to Berlin, making approximately 29,000 flights.

Two Yorks and a Tudor II taxi out at Gatow.

Skyway’s Avro York G-AHLV flew 467 sorties on the lift and was named Sky Courier.

Halifax C.Mk.8 G-AIAP, owned by Eagle Aviation Ltd, made the last civil flight of the Air Lift on August 15, 1949.

Eagle Aviation’s Halifax C.Mk.8 G-ALEF was previously registered to the Norwegian airline Vingtor Airways as LN-OAT.

Avro Tudor G-AGRJ, still in British South American Airways livery, in use as a tanker. This aircraft never flew with BSAA, and was scrapped at Stansted in August 1956.

Avro Tudor Mk 5 G-AKBY flew with Air flight Ltd and once made a take-off with elevator control locks in position.

Three RAF squadrons of Hastings took part in the lift, or Operation Plainfare, as it was code-named.