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Title: 19th Jan 2015 - Happy 75th EIDW!
Post by: Shamrock145 on January 19, 2015, 12:27:14 pm

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

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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.

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)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7tCdujCQAAD-ou.jpg)

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