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19th Jan 2015 - Happy 75th EIDW!

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Shamrock145:
January 19th 2015 is Dublin Airport's 75 Birthday.


--- Quote ---Dublin Airport officially opened at 9:00am on January 19, 1940. It was a cold Friday morning when the inaugural flight - an Aer Lingus Lockheed 14 bound for Liverpool - departed from Collinstown Airport, as it was then known.
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http://www.dublinairport.com/gns/about-us/history.aspx

Here's a picture from the early days (with a hat tip to Old Ireland on Twitter)



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