Wright Airlines de Havilland DH-114 Riley
Heron
(c/n 14064)
Wright Airlines was formed at
Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport in 1966 and began scheduled
commuter services between
Cleveland and Detroit City Airport. It was one of the very
few airlines
of the world to
operate de Havilland Herons. Wright's of course, had received the
Riley Aeronautics
Corporation
conversion treatment which had re-engined them with 290 hp Lycoming
IO-540s. Five
of these
diminutive four-engined craft (ex Heron 2Bs) were operated of which
N508FW is seen above
in this nice Bob
Garrard photograph taken at Cleveland Lakefront Airport in April 1970.