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Re: What is...
Posted by Mike Henniger on Mon Feb 04, 2002 02:45:21 PM
In reply top Re: What is... posted by Ron Henry on Mon Feb 04, 2002 02:24:37 PM
This board is great! You learn something new every da... 10 minutes!!! :-)
Mike
: : OK... I'll bite by asking a question that will likely hi
: gh
: : light my ignorance... What is COGEA?
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: : Mike
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: COGEA was a Belgian company who supplied target towing ser
: vices for the Belgian armed services (the company might ha
: ve had other specialities, but I don't know about that). T
: he expansion of the name was something like Compagnie Gene
: rale d'Expeditions Aerien (the 1st two words *are* correct
: !).
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: In the late 50s they operated 6 (?) Spitfire 9s on this wo
: rk - some, at least, being ex-Dutch, IIRC. The Spitfires w
: ere sold, and, in the 60s, at least one of them came onto
: the UK register (G-ASJT?). The replacements were some Mete
: or NF11s.