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1960s Kai Tak Airport Airside Carpark

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The Airport Main Fire Station adjacent to Sung Wong Toi Road can be seen below the black smoke from the Green Island Cement Factory. Note the temporary control tower from the early 1960s (yet to be demolished) which was replaced in 1962 with the construction of the Passenger Terminal Building.

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1966
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1960s Kai Tak Airport Carpark

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1966
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Structures on top of Beacon Hill

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1998

With the wind in the right direction passengers could get a closer look at the structures than they may have wished for. I took this in 1998.

1940s Spitfire at RAF Kai Tak

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1945
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1940s Short Sunderland Flying Boat at Kowloon Bay

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Short Sunderland Flying Boat moored at Kowloon Bay.

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1945
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1945 RAF Kai Tak

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A Spitfire of 681 Squadron. Looks like taken near the RAF Hangar at Tai Hom.

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1945
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Kai Tak. may 1966

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1966
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Kai Tak, 1969

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An interesting photo of Kai Tak, taken in October,1969

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1969
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Cathay Pacific crash 1949

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1949

28 Squadron RAF-Kai Tak-christmas card-1957

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1957
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28 Squadron based at Kai Tak seemed to have a tradition of decorating their christmas cards with young ladies working as BOAC ground hostesses

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