London Airport - Heathrow 1940s to 1970s
Documentary (2019)
Starring:
Howard Asbridge (Narrator)
This third ‘London Airport’ DVD goes back even further; to the 1940s, with BOAC Yorks, a BSAA Lancaster Freighter, Constellations and even an Air France Languedoc.
Then there’s a BEA Ambassador and a BOAC Stratocruiser plus KLM and Sabena DC4s. And do you remember Island Airways’ Dragon Rapides giving pleasure flights over London?
Outside the Queens Building in 1959, the ramp’s pretty quiet; just a few early Viscounts and the occasional DC6B. But, after a drive to Heathrow in 1961, on almost empty approach roads, the airport itself is now crowded with turboprops and early jetliners.
But, there are a still a few piston propliners; Air France Super Constellations, Sabena and Swissair CV440s, a Cambrian DC3 and we fly to Liverpool on a Starways DC4.
Tridents, Comets, 707s, DC8s, VC10s, 1-11s, DC9s; all the early jetliners are here and they feature in some great airside action or in those famous views from the spectator terraces.
On the cargo ramp, there’s close up action with a Singapore Airlines 707C, BEA Merchantman and a Fred Olsen Electra.
Singapore Airlines’ Concorde also features in this wonderful review of Heathrow in its heyday.
Also from this series:
Avion Video Series
Douglas DC-3C
London Airport at Heathrow in the early days after 1946.
Registration OO-AUY, c/n 43089. Built in 1943 as C-47 Skytrain for USAAF, retrofit post war as DC-3C.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
An interesting Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II of B.O.A.C in the background right.
Avro 685 York C.I
Registration G-AGJA, c/n 1207. Delivered to B.O.A.C in Januray 1944, then operated for a while by British South American Airways on May 1949 until September 1949. Went back to B.O.A.C until Mai 1951. Sold to Lancashire Aircraft Ltd then sold to Skyways of London Ltd in February 1955. Withdrawn frome use on May 1959.
Blue Speedbird Natural metal livery, 1945-1949.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Lockheed Constellation behind it.
Avro 685 York C.I
Registration G-AGNY, c/n 1226. Delivered to B.O.A.C in September 1945. Sold to Eagle Aviation Ltd on October 1949 to Skyways of London Ltd on April 1953.
Destroyed in an accident in August 1954.
SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc
Registration F-BCUN, c/n 61.
In the background, a Lockheed Constellation on the right and Douglas DC-3 on the left.
On the right backround, a Douglas DC-4 from an unidentified airline.
Unidentified airline Douglas DC-3 in the background left.
Better view of the Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II of B.O.A.C in the background right.
Avro 691 Lancastrian
Registration G-AGUJ, c/n PP689.
Douglas DC-4-1009
Registration PH-TLO. c/n not found yet.
Lockheed Constellation
Unidentified airline. Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II on the left background.
Lockheed 749A Constellation
White Tail Twin Stripe livery.
Boeing 377-10-32 Stratocruiser
In White Tail Twin Stripe livery, warn by B.O.A.C's airplanes from 1949 to 1955.
Douglas DC-4-1009
Vickers 707 Viscount
Rare view of this first Aer Lingus livery on Viscount
Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2
Wearing Peony/Three crown livery.
De Havilland DH89A Dragon Rapide
Registration G-AGJG, c/n 6517. Built in 1943 and delivered to Scottish Airways Ltd for commercial operation until January 1947. Sold to BEA on February 1947 who operated the aircraft until September 1948. Sold to Adie Aviation Ltd in October 1948, then to Mediterranean Air Services Ltd in January 1949. Went back to Adie Aviation Ltd on August 1950, then sold to a private owner on June 1953. The company Island Air Services bought it in May 1954 for commercial use from London Airport until March 1959. Since that period the aircarft saw some tenth of different private owners until nowadays, still working machine.
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
Registration F-BHBB, c/n 4621.
Vickers 708 Viscount
Registration G-ARIR, c/n 36. Delivered to Air France on June 1954. Sold to Starways Ltd in February 1961, then Air Inter in November 1963. Sold to Alidair in November 1975. From 1975 to 1979, leased and sub-leased several times to Dan-Air, British Midland Airways, Guernesey Airlines , Alidair Scotland. Became Inter City Airlines in March 1981 due to corporate name change of Alidair, but the company ceased operations in 1983. Contract with Shell Oil continued for a while in the year 1983, then the airplane was purchased by Hards Travel for Janus Airways operation. Sold in 1984 to MMM Aero Services (3MAS) in Zaïre. Destroyed in 1989.
Douglas DC-6B
Registration LN-LMT, c/n 44170/439.
Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Convair 440-12 Metropolitan
Vickers 708 Viscount & Vickers 700/800 Viscount
General view at London Heathrow Airport with one Viscount from Air France and BEA.
Vickers 808 Viscount
Green top/White tail livery. Arrival of this 808 Viscount at the same terminal seen above.
Vickers 708 Viscount
Registration F-BGNU, c/n 38. Delivered to Air France on July 1954, and operated till 1961, when leased to Air Vietnam. Returned to Air France in January 1963, but sold to Air Inter. Withdrawn from service in January 1975. Donated to Aéro Club de Mulhouse , Habsheim Airfield. Transferred to Auto und Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany in 1985 were it still is nowadays.
Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Viscount of Aer Lingus on the left (listed further). In the far background is another BEA's Viscount.
Who knows who were these VIP standing on the stair for the photo?
Vickers 808 Viscount
Registration EI-AJI, c/n 289. Delivered to Aer Lingus in June 1957 and operated until October 1969. Stored at Collinston Airport, Dublin, then broken up for scrap in May 1972.
Douglas C-47/DC-3 and BEA's Viscount in the background.
Vickers 806 Viscount
Viscount F-BGNU from Air France is taxiing towards the runway.BEA's Viscount on the right.
On the left, tail fin of G-AOYT, c/n 268. Delivered to BEA on May 1958. Sold to Winner Airways (Taiwan) in May 1969, then purchased in 1976 by Far Eastern Air Transport. Leased to Indonesion company Mandala Airlines in September 1977. Scrapped after a belly landing in 1985.
Several BEA's Viscount in the row.
Vickers 802 Viscount
Registrated G-AOHS, c/n 167 in Peony/Three crown livery. Delivered on June 1957 to BEA. In 1971, it operated for the regional division BEA Scottish Airways until the merge into British Airways in July 1973. Withdrawn from service in June 1975 and stored at Rhoose Airport, Cardiff and used for fire and rescue training by the Cardiff Airport Fire Service.Definitively scrapped in March 1980.
Two other BEA's Viscount in the far background.
Vickers 806 Viscount
Vickers 806 Viscount in Peony/Three crown livery of BEA worn from 1950 to 1959.
Vickers 701C Viscount
Registration G-ANHA, c/n 61. Delivered to BEA in October 1954. Purchased by Brazilian VASP in August 1962. Withdrawn from use on February 1969 then stored until 1975 when donated to Aero Clube Rio Claro. Scrapped in 1989.
Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2
Shell Petroleum's executive airplane. Could be G-AMAA, c/n 5223 if single in the company's fleet.
Vickers 814 Viscount
Waiting on the left Vickers 814 Viscount in Large yellow livery of Lufthansa worn from 1959 to 1967.
View through window of Starways's Douglas DC-4 taxiing towards the runway (see below).
Douglas DC-4-1009
Taking off from London Heathrow Airport with Hunting's hangar in the background.
Various Aircraft
1 - Vickers Viscount.
2 - Vickers Viscount.
3 - Douglas C-47/DC-3.
4 - Vickers Viscount.
Vickers 701 Viscount
Registration G-AMON, c/n 27. Built in February 1952, delivered to BEA on December 1953. Sold to Cambrian Airways on March 1963 who operated the aircraft until March 1976. Sold to the British Airways Board and written off on April 1976.
Same aircraft in others movies IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Another Viscount of BEA with older livery seen in the background left. Listed below.
Vickers 803 Viscount
Seen from one window of the Viscount G-AMON listed above.
Another one seen later.
Douglas DC-3
Very blurry C-47/DC-3 in the right, seen from the cokpit of Viscount G-AMON when arriving at Aeropuerto Madrid-Barajas (MAD/LEMD).
Bristol 175 Britannia 318
Nose of BEA's Viscount G-AMON on the right, at Aeropuerto Madrid-Barajas (MAD/LEMD).
Bristol 175 Britannia 312
2 tail fins of Bristol Britannia from B.O.A.C at London Heathrow Airport in the early 60's. Livery Blue Tail Twin Stripe used from 1955 to 1965.
Various Aircraft
1 - Vickers Vanguard or Lockheed L-188 Electra.
2 - De Havilland DH106 Comet perhaps from BEA-British European Airways.
3 - Unidentifiable.
4 - Vickers Vanguard probably from BEA-British European Airways.
5 - Douglas DC-3/C-47.
6 - De Havilland DH106 Comet landing in the runway background.
7 - Douglas DC-3/C-47.
8 - Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador.
Various Aircraft
1 - Unidentified aircraft.
2 - Bristol 175 Britannia.
3 - Unidentifiable.
4 - Vickers Viscount.
5 - Unidentifiable.
6 - De Havilland DH106 Comet landing in the runway background.
7 - Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Jet age is annouced , here at final landing the Comet seen above n°6. Could be a 4C of the Royal Air Force.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-R
SAS's Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III in the background.
Austrian's Caravelle VI-R taxiing between SAS's Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III and BEA's Vickers 951 Vanguard in the foreground.
Taxiing in front of two Vickers Viscount from BEA-British European Airways.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Towed Comet 4C of B.O.A.C in Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery passing a JAT's Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III (listed below).
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Boeing 707-436
Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle in the background and BEA's Vickers 951 Vanguard in the foreground.
BEA's Vickers 951 Vanguard in the foreground.
Boeing 707-436
In a sunny day for one time, Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle in the background and BEA's Vickers 951 Vanguard in the foreground.
Bristol 175 Britannia 312
Landing at London Heathrow Airport. An unidentified aircraft in the far background.
Vickers 701 Viscount
In the background on the left in the Vermilion red stripe/white stripe earlier livery.
Convair 440-11 Metropolitan
Two BEA's Vickers 951 Vanguard in the background.
Boeing 707-344
Comet 4C of B.O.A.C in the right (listed below).
MEA's De Havilland DH106 Comet on the left.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
SAA/SAL's Boeing 707-344 on the left.
Another one seen few minutes later.Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery.
Douglas DC-8-32
Boeing 707-138B
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C of Aerolíneas Argentinas in the foreground.
Passing behind an unidentified Boeing 707 and a Douglas DC-6B of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways (listed below).
Douglas DC-6B
Qantas's Boeing 707-138B behind.
Convair 440-61 Metropolitan
Registration OO-SCT, c/n 381.
Bristol 175 Britannia 312
Boeing 707-321
Douglas DC-8-43
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III of Air France on the right.
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.650 Argosy 102
Unidentifiable aircraft in the far background left and centre. Two British Eagle's Britannias on the right.
Plus another Britannia from B.O.A.C in the background right.
BEA's Vickers 951 Vanguard in the foreground.
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Registration G-APE... A genuine classic of this era in GB with its Red Square livery that suits so well the model. Notice the Comet 4C of B.O.A.C passing by in the background.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
Wearing The winged arrow livery.
The B.O.A.C's Comet 4C fades to the right. Tail fin of BEA's Vanguard on the left.
Full stop for the Caravelle.
Vickers 953 Vanguard & Vickers 800 Viscount
Registration G-APEP, c/n 719 for this 951 Vanguard built in 1967 and in service with BEA from 1967 to 1974. Modified as Vickers 953C Merchantman in 1974 and operated by British Airways Cargo until 1979, then sold to Air Bridge Carriers .
Several BEA's Viscount 800 series around, and a Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident on the right. In the very far background, still remaining a British Eagle's Britannia.
Avro 748 Srs.1/106
Registration G-ARRW, c/n 1549 built in 1963. Operated by BKS Air Transport until 1967, then with Skyways Coach Air Ltd until 1971. Sold to International Skyways Ltd. Purchased by Dan-Air Services in 1972 than Dan-Air Skyways until 1977.
Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Taxiing between BEA's Vanguards and Viscount.
Vanguard G-APEP again in the foreground, with the Trident in the background left.
Moving away towards the runway, leaving a BEA's Viscount on the left.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
BEA's Viscount 800 in the foreground, and in the far background (x2). This Cambrian's Douglas C-47 is one of the tenth ex BEA used by the company at this time. Wearing the earlier Red-white stripe livery of the era.
Air France's Super G Constellation on the left, in the background and far background are two BEA's DH106 Comet.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Vickers 802 Viscount
In the background from left to right: Unidentified Douglas DC-4 or DC-6, Air France's Super G Constellation and tail fin of BEA's DH106 Comet on the right.
Two Caravelle's more in the panorama. The one on the left beeing from Air France.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Taxiing between BEA's Viscount 800 already seen above and a Cambrian's Douglas C-47 (maybe the same also seen above).
Argosy of BEA in the background.
Argosy of BEA in the background.
Far in the distance, a BEA's Vanguard.
Vickers 951 Vanguard & Vickers 806 Viscount
951 Vanguard taxiing behind a Vickers 806 Viscount in the foreground, registered G-AOYM, c/n 262. Both from BEA in the Red Square livery.
G-AOYM was delivered in December 1956 and operated by BEA until November 1971. Purchased by Cambrian Airways in 1971 and used until March 1976, then transfered into British Airways fleet until January 1984. Sold to British Air Ferries for a short while, and leased to Manx Airlines in 1985, then sold abroad to Lineas Aereas Canarias. Withdrawn from use in May 1989. Stored and finished her life as Disco/Bar/Restaurant in the 1990's on Tenerife , Canary Islands.
Passing by another BEA's 806 Viscount (listed below).
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Following the same way than the previous Vanguard passing G-AOYM.
In the foreground Reg.G-AOYI, c/n 257 delivered in December 1956 and operated by BEA until July 1970. Purchased by Cambrian Airways on September 1970 and used until March 1976, then transfered into British Airways fleet until February 1981. Sold to British Air Ferries and leased to Esso Standard Libya in July 1981, to Occidental Libya Inc in December 1981, Sirte Oil Co. in June 1982, and Polar Airways in August 1982. Went back as British Air Ferries in 1983, leased to Guernsey Airlines on August 1983. Sold to London European Airways in February 1985, then to Caicos International Airways Ltd on April 1986. Service there until July 1987, went back to BAF until beeing scrapped in June 1992.
G-AOYI in the foreground.
Notice the De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA in the background.
Vickers 802 Viscount
In the foreground G-AOYI already listed above.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Another Caravelle III of SAS taxiing in front of a Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III of Finnair. On the right, nose of BEA's Vanguard.
Two SAS's Caravelle III in the same shot.
Again one BEA's Vanguard in the background.
Boeing 707-321
Viscount 951 Vanguard in the background facing the BEA's hangars of London Heathrow Airport.
Two Viscount from BEA in the background.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C & Viscount 951 Vanguard
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-R
BEA's Vanguard in the background beside an Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador. Some unidentified aircraft on the left, maybe one Viscount among them.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Vanguard of BEA on the background left.
Vickers 808 Viscount
Green top/White tail livery.
Bristol 175 Britannia 312
1 - Britannia of British Eagle.
2 - Vickers 808 Viscount of BEA.
3 - Caravelle III of SAS.
4 - Vickers 808 Viscount of BEA.
1 - Vickers 808 Viscount of BEA.
2 - Caravelle III of SAS.
3 - Vickers 808 Viscount of BEA.
4 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Tridentof BEA.
5 - Unidentified aircraft.
6 - Caravelle III of JAT.
8 - Vanguard of BEA.
9 - Britannia of British Eagle.
1 - Caravelle III of SAS.
2 - Vickers 808 Viscount of BEA.
3 - Unidentified aircraft.
4 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Tridentof BEA.
5 - Caravelle III of JAT.
6 - Britannia of British Eagle.
7 - Vanguard of BEA.
1 - Unidentified aircraft.
2 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Tridentof BEA.
3 - Britannia of British Eagle.
4 - Vanguard of BEA.
5 - Caravelle III of Finnair.
6 - Unidentified aircraft.
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
Argosy and Comet 4B of BEA plus tail fin of a Douglas DC-3/C-47in the background.
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Departure from Renfrew Airport - Glasgow to London.
On aproach for landing at London Heathrow Airport.
Comet 4 on the ground.
De Havilland DH104 Dove
From a window of the Vanguard seen above.
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
From a window of the Vanguard taxiing to the terminal. Notice the Vickers Viscount in the background right.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B
In the background seen from the same Vanguard.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
Partially hidden by the wing of BEA's Vanguard.
Tail fin of a Bristol 175 Britannia listed below.
Cunard Eagle Airways's Britannia on the right (listed below).
Bristol 175 Britannia 324
Vickers 802 Viscount
With the batch of British Eagle's Britannias in the far background.
Registration remains unknown, maybe not the same?
Lockheed L-188C Electra
Registration PH-LLD, c/n 2009, wearing the 1963 New Crown logo livery. This timeless logo was drawn by Henri Kay Henrion British designer, and still iconic logo of the company nowadays.
In the background, BEA's Vickers 802 Viscount, Pan American's DC-8 and very far, an essential BEA's Vickers Vanguard.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident of BEA on the right, with the BEA's Vickers Vanguard already mentionned above.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
BEA's Vickers Vanguard, unidentified aircraft and Douglas DC-3/C-47 in the background.
PH-LLD Jupiter foreground left.
Boeing 707-330B
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Registration G-APED, c/n 707 ready for motion in the foreground. Built and delivered in 1961, withdrawn from use in 1973.
Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Another Vanguard beeing towed in the background.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C & Vickers 951 Vanguard
Comet 4C of B.O.A.C passing behind a Vickers 951 Vanguard registered G-APEB, c/n 705. Built and delivered in 1961, withdrawn from use in 1973.
Douglas DC-6A
Registration G-APES, c/n 721 Vickers 951 Vanguard in the foreground right. Built and delivered in 1961, transferred to British Airways fleet in 1974, used until 1976. Purchased by Yield Aircraft Service Ltd , then sold in 1984 to BAF-British Air Ferries.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-R
BEA's Vickers Viscount to the right. Unidentified aircraft in the far background.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Elegant airliner.
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Vickers 701 Viscount
Vermilion red stripe/white stripe earlier livery for this Cambrian's Viscount. On the left, Vickers 808 Viscount of Aer Lingus, with British Eagle's Britannia in the background.
1 - Vickers 701 Viscount of Cambrian Airways.
2 - Vickers 808 Viscount of Aer Lingus.
3 - Bristol 175 Britannia of British Eagle International Airlines.
4 - Armstrong Whitworth A.W.650 Argosy.
5 - Bristol 175 Britannia of British Eagle International Airlines.
1 - Vickers 701 Viscount of Cambrian Airways.
2 - BAC 111-304AX One-Eleven of British Eagle International Airlines.
3 - Vickers 951 Vanguard of BEA-British European Airways.
4 - Vickers 951 Vanguard of BEA-British European Airways.
Lockheed L-188C Electra
Registration PH-LLF, c/n 2013, wearing the 1959 Red Crown logo / Ball and Stripe livery.
Ilyushin Il-18B
Registration LZ-BEM, s/n 182005602.
BAC 111-304AX One-Eleven
Registration G-ATPI, c/n 112. Delivered February 1966 to British Eagle and operated until April 1969. Unknown histoy until November 1984 when it comes to Airways International Cymru Ltd as G-WLAD. Bought by Ali Finance in April 1990 until May 1991. Then sold abroad (Nigeria).
Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Fokker F27-600 Friendship
Registration LX-LGD, c/n 10338.
To the right far in the distance, we can guess a De Havilland DH106 Comet 4, and a BEA's Vanguard behind the F27 Friendship.
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Vanguard and Vickers 808 Viscount of Aer Lingus on the right.
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Great picture of them.
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Registration G-APEB, c/n 705. Already seen above very partially.
Vickers 953 Vanguard
Registration G-APEU, c/n 723. Delivered September 1967 and operated until April 1974, then for British Airways until April 1975.
Another Vanguard in the far background and a Trident nearer both from BEA.
Caravelle in the background, one of the SAS often seen here.
Another Caravelle in the background. Maybe from JAT.
Caravelle from SAS to the background.
Again, Trident and Vanguard from BEA in background.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Registration G-ARPW, c/n 2123. On service with BEA from delivery date April 1961 to April 1974, then passed to BEA-British Airways until beeing withdrawn from use in May 1982.
Notice the Air France Caravelle III on the left background.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Registration F-BHRK, c/n 26. Delivered in 1960,operated by Air France until 1980, with lease to Air Charter International in the latest month of exploitation. Scrapped in 1980.
In the background, from SAS:
Registration OY-KRD, c/n 47. Delivered July 1960. Preserved at Danish Air Museum, Helsingør.
Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Pushed back from its position.
Maybe the same.
Boeing 707-321
Lockheed L-188C Electra
Another KLM's Lockheed L-188C Electra wearing the 1963 New Crown logo livery.
Interesting De Havilland DH114 Heron 2D of MAC-Martin’s Air Charter to the right background (other view below).
Unidentified aircraft in the far background.
Another BEA's Trident 1C in the background.
De Havilland DH114 Heron 2D
Among several airliners in the background: Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C, Vanguard and Viscount, a tiny DH114 Heron on the left in Red/dark blue MAC livery prior to Martinair Holland late 60's livery.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
KLM's Lockheed Electra on the left, BEA's Viscount 800 on the right, and several Britannias in the far background, from British Eagle and B.O.A.C.
Vickers 802 Viscount & Boeing 707-138B
In the far background, we have on the left a MSA's De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C (or Sudan Airways) , and a Hawker Siddeley Trident of BEA.
Vickers 802 Viscount
Vickers 803 Viscount
Another Viscount 800 from BEA bacground.
BEA's Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C to the right.
Passing between a BEA's Vickers 701 Viscount to the left and BEA's Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C to the right.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Registration G-ARPD, c/n 2104. Delivered April 1961, operated as BEA until April 1974, then as British Airways until September 1981.
Aer Lingus-Irish International Viscount foreground.
BEA's Vanguard in the background.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Boeing 707-336C
Wearing Golden Speedbird livery adopted in 1965. 707-336C equiped with P&W JT3D engine which is not the usual version of 707 for BOAC who prefered the Rolls-Royce Conway (Series 436).
Boeing 707-436
Another BOAC's 707 in Golden Speedbird livery. A Rolls-Royce Conway 508 engine version this time as usual for the company.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C and Boeing 707-138B of Qantas to the left.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Vickers VC10 Srs 1101
Wearing 1964 Meat Cleaver livery.
Boeing 707-436
In the foreground BEA's Vickers 802 Viscount to the right and G-ARPD BEA's Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C already mentionned above.
Boeing 707-436
1 - Boeing 707 of BOAC.
2 - Vickers VC10 of BOAC.
3 - Vickers Vanguard of BEA.
4 - 707 or DC-8 of Pan American World Airways.
5 - Vickers VC10 of BOAC.
Boeing 707-344
1 - Boeing 707-344 of SAA/SAL.
2 - Vickers VC10 of BOAC.
3 - Boeing 707 of BOAC.
4 - DC-8 of Air Canada.
Boeing 707-321B & Douglas DC-8-43
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Taking off in the background.
In the foreground, 707 of BOAC, MEA's De Havilland DH106 Comet and BEA's Trident.
Boeing 720-058B
Arrival from Tel-Aviv.
Boeing 707-321B
Taking off in the background, a flight Pan American to somewhere...
In the foreground,Boeing 707 of BOAC, registered G-ASGC c/n 853, Vickers Super VC10 Srs.1151 of BOAC and Boeing 707-344 of SAA/SAL.
G-ASGC has been already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Boeing 707 of BOAC in the foreground.
Boeing 707-138B of Qantas in the foreground.
Vickers Super VC10 Srs.1151
Boeing 707-138B
Shot through Vickers Vanguard window.
Ilyushin Il-18B
From a Vickers Vanguard. Maybe LZ-BEM already seen above?
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32
The Winged Arrow livery.
Notice the British Eagle's Bristol Britannia behind the 2nd Alitalia's DC-9.
Boeing 707-336C
On use for BOAC Cargo.
Boeing 737-248
Boeing 727-228
Taxiing Convair Coronado from Swissair in the background (also listed below).
Convair 990A-30 Coronado
737 of Aer Lingus in the background.
Boeing 727-82
Registration CS-TBL, c/n 19405. Passing on its right the Convair Coronado seen above.
Notice Aer Lingus Boeing 737 living the tarmac behind the Swissair's Coronado.
Boeing 737 passing in the background.
It parks near to a Douglas DC-8 of Alitalia, with an Olympic's Boeing 707 beside it.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C & De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B
All wearing new Speedjack/Quaterjack livery since 1968.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B & Bristol 175 Britannia 102
Japan Air Lines DC-8 passing in the far background behind an unidentified Vickers Viscount.
In the background, the tail fin only visible. Ex B.O.A.C.
Douglas DC-8-43
The Winged Arrow livery.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 2E
Registration 5B-DAA, c/n 2154. Scrapped after an accident in the early 70s. Several Trident 1C in Speedjack/Quaterjack BEA's livery.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Registration G-ARPG, c/n 2107.Delivered April 1961, operated until April 1974, then as British Airways until April 1976.
Notice Cyprus Airways 5B-DAA in the distance.
Behind , registered G-AVMY, c/n 152 a BAC 111-510ED One-Eleven of BEA.Already met on this site:IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Some others.
Boeing 707-436
On the left, an Olympic Airways Boeing 727, on the right Boeing 727 and Caravelle from Air France.
Boeing 707-387C
Landing on the runway.
Japan Air Lines DC-8 in the far background.
Boeing 727 from Air France on the right foreground already mentionned above.
Air France Boeing 727-228 in the foreground registered F-BOJA c/n 19543. Was stored few years ago at Merville-Calonne Airfield (LFQT).
F-BOJA on the fuselage, framed by two Air France Caravelles.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Still in Read Square livery.
F-BOJA and Caravelle in the foreground.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Same scene with a Trident in Speedjack/Quaterjack livery, but closer to the Air France Caravelle III which reveals its registration F-BHRR, c/n 50 christenized Lyonnais. Delivered September 1960. Sold to Air Inter in 1973, then to Nigerian company Kabo Air in 1983. Damaged beyon repair in August 1986.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1E
Another landing Trident in BKS Air Transport- British Air Services.
Douglas DC-8-63CF
Fuselage of an Olympic's Boeing 727 in the foreground.
Tail fin of a KLM's DC-9 in the foreground on the right.
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32
Fokker F27-400 Friendship
Tail fin of a KLM's DC-9 in the foreground on the right.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N & Boeing 727-29
Vickers VC10 Srs 1101
Wearing 1965 Golden Speedbird livery.
Ilyushin Il-62M
Behind this Ilyushin Il-62 , tail fin of an Ilyushin Il-18 of LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze, and in far background a Douglas DC-8-52 of Iberia.
Boeing 707-348C
Behind, a BEA's Vickers Viscount.
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-41
Boeing 727-82 & Boeing 737-130
Registration CS-TBM, c/n 19406.
To the left, tail fin of Boeing 707 from Aer Lingus and Boeing 727-228 of Air France.
Passing in the background Boeing 737-130 of Lufthansa.
BEA's Vanguard in very far background.
TAROM's BAC One-Eleven to the right (listed below).
BAC 111-424EU One-Eleven & Boeing 737-130
McDonnell Douglas DC-9 in the very far background. CS-TBM to the left foreground.
Boeing 747-136
Wearing 1970-74 Golden Speedbird with Blue Titles livery.
Boeing 707-382B
1 - Boeing 707-382B of TAP-Transportes Aéreos Portugueses.
2 - Boeing 707-430 of Lufthansa.
3 - Vickers VC10 Srs 1101 of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.
4 - Boeing 737-130 of Lufthansa.
5 - Boeing 707 of DC-8 of Pan American World Airways.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Boeing 727-284 of Olympic Airways to the left, Boeing 707-430 of Lufthansa to the right.
Registration F-BJTH, c/n 124.
707s of TAP and Lufthansa to the right.
Various Aircraft
1 - Boeing 737-229/Advanced of SABENA.
2 - Tupolev Tu-134 of Balkan Bulgarian Airlines.
3 - Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III of Air France.
Various Aircraft
1 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 2E of BEA-British European Airways.
2 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA-British European Airways.
3 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident of British Airways.
4 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident of BEA-British European Airways.
5 - McDonnel Douglas DC-9.
6 - McDonnel Douglas DC-9.
7 - BAC One-Eleven.
Various Aircraft
1 - McDonnel Douglas DC-9.
2 - BAC One-Eleven.
3 - Boeing 737.
4 - Boeing 737-229/Advanced of SABENA.
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5 - Tupolev Tu-134 of Balkan Bulgarian Airlines.
Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1
1 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 2E of BEA-British European Airways.
2 - Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 of British Airways.
3 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident of BEA-British European Airways.
4 - BAC One-Eleven of British Airways.
BAC 111-208AL One-Eleven & BAC 111-510ED One-Eleven
In the foreground, Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 2E of British Airways in former BEA livery.
Boeing 727-2H3/Advanced
Boeing 727-224
Nice livery when the sun is out.
Douglas DC-8-62H & Boeing 727-2H9/Advanced
Wearing The stylized "A" livery in 1969.
Boeing 727 of JAT in the right.
In the background, a Boeing 727-256/Advanced from Iberia-Líneas Aéreas de España.
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 & Boeing 737-230C
KLM's blue top/dark blue stripe livery.
Boeing 737 of SABENA points its nose in the right.
Boeing 737-229/Adv of SABENA in the background. Notice one of the first Airbus A300B2-1C of Air France to the right.
Ilyushin Il-62
Boeing 707-321C
Boeing 747-121
To the right,Boeing 707 of British Airways.
Boeing 747-131
Twin Globes livery (1962-1975).
To the right an unidentified British Airways aircraft.
Boeing 707-3B4C
Taxiing in the background, a Vickers VC10 Srs.1102 listed below.
Notice a Boeing 707 of British Airways far in the background.
Vickers VC10 Srs.1102
Registration 9G-ABO, c/n 823. Colourfull and unusual.
Boeing 747-238B of Qantas passing by in the background. MEA's 707-3B4C on the right.
Notice the Boeing 707-3B4C of Kuwait Airways in the background, and a British Airways's Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 farther.
Vickers VC10 C1
Vickers Super VC10 Srs.1151
Full Titles Negus livery used from 1973/74 to 1981.
Douglas DC-8-33
The same Pan American aircraft on the right. In the far background , two Douglas DC-8-43 of Air Canada.
Douglas DC-8-43
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 102
Registration G-BOAD, c/n 210. Delivered October 1976. From 1977 to 1980,it was deployed to London-Bahrein-Singapore line. wearing the Singapore Airlines livery on the port (left) side of the fuselage, while the starboard (right) side displayed British Airways Full Titles Negus livery.
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 102
Super VC10 of British Airways behind in the background.
Boeing 707-351C-H
Registration SX-DBP, c/n 19163.Ilyushin Il-62 on the right.
Ilyushin Il-62M
With 'Official Olympic Carrier' titles in red in accordance with Moscow Olympic Games.Must be late 70's picture.
Boeing 707-436
Ilyushin Il-62M on the left.
Boeing 737-2K2/Advanced
707 of British airtours in the background.
Lockheed L-1011-385-1-15 TriStar 100
Lockheed L-1011-385-1-15 TriStar 1
Boeing 747-136
Hybrid livery betwen Full Titles Negus and BOAC's Golden Speedbird with Blue Titles livery.
Boeing 707-336B
Olympic Airways's Boeing 707 behind it.
Olympic Airways's Boeing 707 behind it.
Boeing 747-131
Twin Globes livery.
To the right an Handley Page Dart Herald from unidentified airline. In these times at London Heathrow Airport, it could be from BIA-British Island Airways.
Vickers 802 Viscount
Registration G-AOJE, c/n 154. Delivered to BEA on January 1956 and operated till 1971, then for BEA Scottish Airways. Passed under British Airways brand in 1973 as Scottish Airways still wearing Speedjack/Quaterjack livery then as standard British Airways until 1980. Definitively written off from use since then.
Vickers Super VC10 Srs.1151
Full Titles Negus livery.
Vickers Super VC10 Srs.1151 & Boeing 747-136
British Airways Boeing 747 in foreground left and right.
British Airways's Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 102 in the far background left.
Boeing 707-324C
Registration 9V-BEW, c/n 19351. Ex Continental Airlines, then Malaysia–Singapore Airlines, became Singapore Airlines when the company split up. Transferred to the cargo subsidiary in the mid 70's. After a spell with Eagle Air, it sucummed to the Arizona desert in 1987.
Boeing 747s of Singapore Airlines and British Airways in the background.
Vickers 953C Merchantman
Stil wearing ex BEA Speedjack/Quaterjack livery.
Vickers 953C Merchantman
Another one G-APE... ex Vickers Vanguard converted.
Boeing 747-236B
In the background from left to right: 747s of SAA, Iraqi Airways, Singapore Airlines.
TWA's 747 background to the left.
Boeing 720-023B
Boeing 707-331B
In this unattractive Twin Stripes Hollow Titles livery since 1975.
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
DC-10 series 30 by the additional central landing gear.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Untitled in ex-hybrid BOAC/British Airways livery.
Douglas Dakota IV
Lockheed L-188C(F) Electra
Registration LN-FOI, c/n 2005. Delivred 1959 to TEAL-Tasman Empire Airways Limited that became Air New Zealand in 1965. Converted to freighter and sold to Fred. Olsen Airtransport in September 1973. Withdrawn frome use in 1996, and brocken-up in 2006.
Notice the Boeing 707-321C of Gulf Air to the right in background.
Vickers 813 Viscount
Former Lockheed Electra passing by in the background.
Douglas Dakota IV
G-AMPO, c/n 33185/16437. Ex RAF as KN566.It had many owners since the war: Starways Ltd, Eagles Aircraft Services, First Air Trading Co, Aviation Guerhauls, Field Airxraft Sces, BAC, Macedonian Aviation, Humber Airways, McDonald Aviation, Intra Airways, Vistair Flight, Lease Air (Eastern Airways), Air Atlantique Ltd, Aces High Ltd, and Atlantic Air Transport Ltd. Wfu in 2001, stored at Lyneham RAF base.
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 102
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 102
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Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 102
Illegible registration.
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- Avion Video Series
- Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
- Airbus A300
- Airspeed Ambassador
- Armstrong Whitworth A.W.660 Argosy
- Avro Lancastrian
- Avro York
- BAC One-Eleven
- Beechcraft Baron
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 720
- Boeing 727
- Boeing 737
- Boeing 747
- Bristol 175 Britannia
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- Convair 240/340/440
- Convair 540/580/600/640
- Convair 880/990
- De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide
- De Havilland DH104 Dove
- De Havilland DH106 Comet
- De Havilland DH114 Heron
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas C-53 Skytrooper
- Douglas C-54 Skymaster
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-4
- Douglas DC-6
- Douglas DC-8
- Fokker F27 Friendship
- Handley Page Dart Herald
- Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident
- Hawker Siddeley HS.748
- Ilyushin Il-18
- Ilyushin Il-62
- Lockheed Constellation
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9
- Piper PA-23
- Piper PA-32
- SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc
- Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle
- Tupolev Tu-134
- Vickers Vanguard
- Vickers VC10
- Vickers Viscount
- Aer Lingus
- Aeroflot
- Aerolíneas Argentinas
- Air Atlantique Ltd
- Air Canada
- Air Charter International
- Air France
- Alitalia
- Balkan Bulgarian Airlines
- BKS Air Transport
- BOAC-Cunard
- British Airtours
- British Airways
- British Airways World Cargo
- British Eagle International Airlines
- British European Airways
- British Midland Airways
- British Overseas Airways Corporation
- British South American Airways
- Cambrian Airways
- ČSA Czech Airlines
- Cubana de Aviación
- Cunard Eagle Airways
- Eagle Airways Ltd
- El Al Israel Airlines
- Finnair
- Fred. Olsen Airtransport
- Gulf Air
- Iberia
- Iran Air
- Iraqi Airways
- Japan Airlines
- JAT Yugoslav Airlines
- KLM
- Kuwait Airways
- Libyan Airlines
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Lufthansa
- Luxair
- Malaysia–Singapore Airlines
- Martin's Air Charter
- Middle East Airlines
- Pan American World Airways
- Qantas
- SABENA
- Scandinavian Airlines System
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- Singapore Airlines
- Singapore Airlines Cargo
- South African Airways
- Sudan Airways
- Swissair
- TABSO Bulgarian Air Transport
- TAP Portugal
- TAROM
- Transavia
- Trans-Canada Air Lines
- Trans World Airlines
- Tunisair
- United Arab Airlines