VP-KDF de Havilland D.H.104 Dove 1
(c/n 04118)
When delivered, EAAC Doves (and,
in fact, those for most of the Commonwealth airlines)
were
very plain. Often they did not even have the airline name over
the cabin windows. East
African's were somewhat unique in that they were named for local tribes
and, over the name
was
a depiction of a representative of that particular tribe (see
enlargement below). VP-KDF
was
named "Buganda". This
1947 D.H. image was taken at Hatfield with HW-202 (c/n
04075) a
Dove for the Indian Air Force behind it. In June of 1951
VP-KDF was flown to
Bahrein where it joined the fleet of Gulf Aviation as G-AMJZ It
was withdrawn from use in
1960 having been converted, by that time, to a Mark 1B.