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Churchill and the Avro York

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I've removed the statement that Churchill flew in an Avro York to the Yalta Conference because the official biography by Martin Gilbert states that he flew to this conference in a Skymaster (vol. vii of 'Winston S. Churchill'). If anyone has a citation for him having been flown in the York, I would be interested to know about it as I have tried to verify this without success.Churchill Archives Centre 14:07, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Accidents and Incidents section

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Listing every and any accident and incident is not necessary and makes the list a completely overwrought affair. If no one objects, I will prune the list to only hull-losses and fatal accidents. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 04:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]

The guide for inclusion allows fatal accidents and hull losses and I suspect nearly all of these are hull losses so really should be included. Perhaps just list the fatal accidents and split the rest into a sub-article. MilborneOne (talk) 08:32, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have trimmed the list to the 30 fatal accidents for now, still looking at a daughter article. MilborneOne (talk) 08:58, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This looks great right now, still very convoluted style of repeating citations which is not necessary. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:06, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I defer to you expertise on citations I just try and leave enough information not to cause trouble in the future if it ever goes for a ga review etc. MilborneOne (talk) 18:03, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

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re: "South African leader Jan Smuts also used a York as personal transport." I've heard that this particular York was sold to a private operator "Trek Airways" in the early fifties. Elper (talk) 22:08, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]