F-BEDE  Beech C18S                                 (c/n  7887)

                                

                                     Grainy shot of a Beech 18 at Gatwick Airport in 1948 whilst in service with Cie Air Transport.
                                     The airline served various northern French centers with Gatwick on both scheduled and charter
                                     services, and immediately after WW II used Caudron Goelands.   It replaced them with four new
                                     C18s from Beech in 1948.  They were F-BEDB, F-BEDC, F-BEDD and F-BEDE.