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CAL’s second plane was a Twin Bonanza. This photo was taken on Providenciales when the airstrip was only 700 feet long. Provident Limited. With two pilots available, Fritz, Embry and Lew sat down to figure out how Caicos Airways Ltd. was going to operate. There were two airplanes available. The Cessna 180 that belonged to Kris Ludington carried one pilot and three passengers. There was also a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza with room for one pilot plus five passengers. Embry lived This is a 1969 aerial photo of the airstrip on North Caicos. It was located on a tidal flat just south of Kew. Heavy rain or high tides made it unusable. in South Caicos where there was a very good runway. Grand Turk had the downtown strip, Providenciales had the 1,200-foot strip, but there was nowhere to land on North nor Middle Caicos. Embry and Lew went to work and found some locations that could be used as airstrips. On North Caicos they picked a spot on the tidal flats just south of Kew. Most of the time this strip had a smooth and hard surface, but heavy rain or extremely high tides would make it unusable. On Middle Caicos they picked two places. One was just east of Conch Bar. In those days there was a footpath between Conch Bar and Bambarra named Anderson Road. They arranged to have some bush cut and made one section of the path wider. The second strip was between Bambarra and the beach just north of the settlement. This strip was truly unique because it had a dogleg. As the pilot was gaining speed on takeoff, he had to slightly change direction! As soon as CAL was up and running it also became the mail carrier for the government. Earlier, the mail on Providenciales arrived from Grand Turk via the boat Donna Casilda captained by Algernon Dean, who had the contract with the government. According to Algernon Dean’s son (with the same name), the mail was supposed to be delivered every two weeks but sometimes got delayed. The “Post Office” on Providenciales was the living room of the Brown’s house in Blue Hills. This was located just east of the government school, rest house 20 www.timespub.tc
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