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FS2004 Olympic (BEA) Comet 4B. Textures only. SX-DAL is shown sporting the late modified Olympic livery with BEA Squares. The Olympic and BEA worked closely together on Comet 4B operations swapping aircraft arround on a tempory basis as needed. This aircraft was delivered to Olympic in January 1960 as G-APYD and re registered SX-DAL, Sold to BEA at the end of 1969 for resale to Channel Airways in January 1970 it retook the marks of G-APYD. After the demise of Channel it passed to Dan Air giving sterling service until October 1979 when as the last 4B in service it was retired. A week later it was ferried to Wroughton for preservation by the Science Museum. Requires the DH 106 Comet 4B model by David Maltby. By Garry Russell.