EI-ACT  Douglas DC-3                  (c/n  12471)

                               

                                       This grainy print, received from Aer Lingus in the early 1950s shows the second livery adopted
                                       for their DC-3 fleet.    EI-ACT was a former RAF Dakota 3 (KG436) and had been built at
                                       Santa Monica in 1942 as a C-47A-10-DK with the serial 42-92647 alloted.  It went to charter
                                       outfit Benedair in the 1960s as EI-ALT and then was sold to the French Navy with its c/n as it
                                       serial number.