The RAF Ensign flying over the new RAF Commemoration site at Gatow on May 14. The former Royal Australian Air Force Douglas C-47, A65-69, was rolled out three days earlier following an extensive restoration.

A Royal Air Force Ensign was flown alongside a freshly restored, former Royal Australian Air Force Douglas C-47 on the new RAF Commemoration site at the Luftwaffe National Air Museum (LNAM) at Gatow, Berlin, on May 14, to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift.

During the autumn of 2011, director of the LNAM, Lt Col Ralf Leonhardt and the curator, Hauptman Jan Beherendt, spent three days in Lincolnshire as guests of Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire (AHL), visiting RAF Digby, where they were presented with the ensign by staff from the RAF Digby Museum. Dave Harrigan, AHL’s outreach and learning officer, said: “We feel that this gesture from the staff of the Luftwaffe National Air Museum paid a great honour to the RAF and civilian crews who flew to and from RAF Gatow during the Berlin Airlift.”