"The Berlin Airlift 1948 - 1949" A civil registered Avro Tudor V, G-AKBY, of Airflight Ltd (owned by the wartime commander of No 8 Group RAF, Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett) refuels at Wunstorf aerodrome during the Berlin Airlift, November 1948. Tudor V aircraft were used as fuel tankers during the Airlift.