London Airport - Heathrow in the 1960s & 70s
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Documentary (2003)
Starring:
Howard Asbridge (Narrator)
Remember where it all began? On the roof terrace at a major airport; noisy, exciting, full of variety and interest. You may have started a lifelong passion for aviation at that moment, but today’s airliners don’t really match up to those early days, do they?
Now we can take you back in time, with the help of some enthusiasts’ cine film, that has been digitally restored and matched to authentic sound. This production hasn’t been made by filming a flickering projection screen. With a specialist ‘Telecine’ conversion process, also used by the BBC and by ITV, we can digitally transfer pictures direct from the film on to digital video tape. These can then be enhanced and edited as necessary.
We start in the 1960s with Viscounts and 707s everywhere, alongside Caravelles, DC8s, Britannias, DC7s, Comets and TU104s. The earliest shot appears to be in 1963, with more from 1964.
Highlights include BEA Herald, Lufthansa C46, Ghana, Swissair and MEA CV990s, the crashed TCA DC8, Aer Lingus Carvair, CSA and CPA Britannias, British Eagle and UAA DC6s. Alitalia, Dan Air and BOAC DC7s, UAA Caravelle.
The 1970s begin with early 747s, DC10s and Tristars. We’ve still got some 707s and increasing numbers of DC8Fs, plus Concorde and the last days of the Tridents.
Highlights include Pan Am DC10 & 737, Northeast Trident, Merpati Vanguard, National 747, Libyan 727, SAA 747SP.
Overall the variety is amazing. Let’s just list the 707s: BOAC, PanAm, TWA, Air France, Lufthansa, TMA, MEA, Air Malta, El Al, PIA, Kuwait, Olympic, SAA, TAP, QANTAS, Montana [Austrian], Kenya, Air Mauritius, US Govt.
So, why not relive those memories today?
Also from this series:
Avion Video Series
The 1960s (first half)
Tupolev Tu-104A & Vickers 951 Vanguard
In the background at London Heathrow Airport in the early 60's.
Vickers 808 Viscount
Registration EI-ALG, c/n 312. First flew on February 1958 as 805 version, delivered to Eagle Airways Ltd as G-APDX on March 1958, exported to Bermuda's subsidiary of Eagle on February 1959 as VR-BAY. Sold to Aer Lingus on February 1960 and converted to 808 Standard. Wfu on October 1969. Scrapped in 1972.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
In the background is a Vickers 951 Vanguard from BEA.
The same seen another day.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Taxiing between EI-ALG already listed above and another Vanguard from BEA in the background.
Convair 990A-30 Coronado
On approach in the sky of Heathrow. Must be either HB-ICA, c/n 30-10-7 Bern or HB-ICE, c/n 30-10-14 Vaud of Swissair on lease to Ghana Airways in 1964. See the Ghanaese flag on the tail fin.
Handley Page HPR-7 Dart Herald 100
It seems we have two Alitalia's aircraft in the background, a Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N to the left beside a Douglas DC-8.
Douglas DC-6B
Boeing 707-436
Wearing the Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery of the era 1955-1966.
Douglas DC-6A
Vickers 951 Vanguard from BEA to the right.
Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas
BEA 's Vickers Vanguard to the right in foreground.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle IA
KLM's Vickers 803 Viscount in the foreground.
Douglas DC-8-33
Tail fin of Vickers 951 Vanguard registered G-APEI, c/n 712 in the foreground. Delivered to BEA on July 1961. Transfered to British Airways on April 1974. Sold to Merpati Nusantara Airlines on March 1975 as PK-MVD.IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Vickers 803 Viscount
Vanguard from BEA in the background.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Comet 4C of B.O.A.C in Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery passing a Vanguard from BEA in the foreground right.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Registration G-APDP, c/n 6417. First flight on May 1959, delivered to B.O.A.C on June 1959. Wet lease to Qantas from 1959 to 1963. In April 1962, sub-leased to Air Ceylon in Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery with red markings. In November 1967, leased to Malaysia–Singapore Airlines as 9V-BBH. Return to B.O.A.C on January 1968. Sold to Dan-Air London on January 1972. Bought by Royal Aircraft Establishment in July 1973 .Wfu 4/75, b/u 8/84 Farnborough.
Boeing 720-040B
Handley Page HPR-7 Dart Herald 100
Seen again later on, a BEA 's Viscount has replaced the Alitalia's Caravelle in the background left beside the same Douglas DC-8.
Leaving the tarmac taxiing in front of an Austrian's Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-R in the background.
Tupolev Tu-104A
Registration CCCP-42460, c/n 06601902.
Unidentified aircraft in the background.
Two military Douglas C-124 Globemaster II parked in the background, and a quadrijet to the right.
Vickers 739A Viscount
BEA's Vickers 800 Viscount behind, with unidentified British Eagle's Britannia or 707 in the background beside another unidentified quadrijet to the right.
Douglas DC-6B
Batch of three BEA's De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B in the background. Unidentified in the very far.
BEA's Vickers 800 Viscount in the foreground.
Swissair's quadrijet and unidentified aircraft in the background.
Boeing 707-328
In the background, from left to right, Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident of BEA, McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and a BAC One-Eleven.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Viscount 951 Vanguard of BEA-British European Airways in the background.
Vickers 808 Viscount of Aer Lingus in the foreground,
Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas
Viscount 951 Vanguard of BEA-British European Airways in the background.
Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
Curtiss-Wright C-46D-10-CU Commando
Registration N9890Z, c/n 33111. Ex-USAAF as 44-77715, sold to Capitol Airways on October 1961, then to Lufthansa on March 1964. Back to Capitol Airways on July 1969, sold to Jonathan Logan Inc on August 1969,then Butte Knitting Mills on October 1969, Carolina Aircraft Corp on April 1971, Ed Cantrell on July 1971, The American National Banko on December 1971, Clarks Aerial Service on July 1972, Brownfield Aerial Inc on October 1977, Onyx Aviation Inc on March 1978, Advance Aviation Inc on July 1978, Gulf Aircraft Sales Inc on April 1979.Last owner Pedro A Garcia on April 1979, scrapped.
Douglas C-74 Globemaster
Either HP-385, or HP-367 depending on the date of the picture. The first (HP-385) crashed in Marseille-Marignane on October 1963. To the left, a Boeing 707-344 of South African Airways/Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Bréguet Br.763 Provence
Canadair CL-44D4-1
Douglas C-54 Skymaster
To the left background, unidentified Douglas DC-3 and Cambrians's Vickers Viscount.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III of Air France in the background.
BEA's Vanguard and Vickers Viscount in the far background.
Vickers 701 Viscount & Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Foreground: Cambrian's Viscount in Vermilion red stripe/white stripe earlier livery.
Boeing 707-331
Wearing the nice Twin Globes livery used for TWA's fleet between 1962 and 1975.
Lockheed L-188C Electra of KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines in the foreground.
Viscount and Vanguard of BEA to the left in the far background.
Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair in the very far background.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA-British European Airways in the background.
Vanguard from BEA in the background.
Two Vanguard from BEA in the background. Nose of a Viscount to the rignt foreground.
Bristol 175 Britannia 324
Good Fortune name worn by G-ARKA (1961-1969) and G-ARKB (1963-1969). The E is missing on the tail fin.
Boeing 707-430
Registration D-ABOF, c/n 17721/162. Delivered to Lufthansa on October 1960. Leased to Condor Flugdienst on March 1977. Sold to Geminair as 9G-ACK on August 1977, then Air Trans Ltd as N90498 on July 1981. Sold to Bata International the same year and month as 3C-ABI. Ended at Bornemouth (EGHH/BOH) as EL-AJC in 1983 for fire training. Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Surrounded by two Viscount of BEA.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Viscount of BEA-British European Airways in the background.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
Wearing The winged arrow livery.
Convair 990A-30 Coronado
Again, either HB-ICA or HB-ICE already seen above, from Swissair on lease to Ghana Airways.
Some Comet 4B of BEA in the background, and an unidentified turboprop airliner behind the Coronado, a Vanguard or L-188 Electra?
Some Vanguard s or Viscount s in the far background.
Viscount of British Eagle International Airlines just behind.
Viscount Vanguard of BEA in the foreground.
Douglas DC-8-54CF Jet Trader
Registration CF-TJM, c/n 46653/178. Crash of Flight 861 on the 6 Nov 1963 at LHR substantially damaged in runway overshot after an aborted take-off. Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy 222
Viscount of BEA-British European Airways in the background (already seen above).
Bristol 175 Britannia 312
Unidentified name, too small and blurry.
Tail fin of Vickers 951 Vanguard registered G-APEI, c/n 712 in the foreground already listed above, and seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA-British European Airways in the background, and Vickers 951 Vanguard from BEA to the left foreground.
Vickers 951 Vanguard from BEA in the foreground. Tupolev Tu-104A of Československé Aerolinie in the background.
DC-3 to the right in the background.
Tupolev Tu-104A
Vickers Viscount of BEA to the right background.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA in the background, and Vickers 951 Vanguard from BEA in the foreground.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Bristol 175 Britannia 312
Unidentified name, too small and blurry. Caravelle III of SAS to the left, and wing of Vanguard from BEA on the right.
Viscount from BEA on the left background.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
Boeing 707-436
Vanguard from BEA in the foreground.
Natural ventilation...
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Douglas DC-8-32
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III of SAS in the background to the left.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
Taxiing in the background, a Vickers 814 Viscount of Lufthansa.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B
Lockheed L-188C Electra
Wearing the 1958-1961 livery.
Lockheed L-188C Electra
Wearing the 1962-1971 livery adopted since 1964 for Electra's fleet.
To the left, we can guess an Aer Lingus's Viscount tail fin, and a BEA's Vanguard. In the very far background, a batch of airplanes that might be some Bristol Britannias and one Vickers Viscount of British Eagle.
Vickers 708 Viscount
BEA's Vickers 800 Viscount in the foreground.
Douglas DC-8-54CF Jet Trader
Registration N8782R, c/n 45667/185. Delivered new to Trans Caribbean Airways on June 1963. Transferred to American Airlines fleet on March 1971 when the merge of the company into American Airlines. Leased to Seaboard World Airlines on June 1972 and operated until January 1975. Immediatly sold to IAS Cargo International Aviation Service as G-BDHA, sold and merged into British Cargo Airlines on August 1979. Bought as HI-426 by Agro Air Associates in November 1983 and leased by Aeromar Cargo, then transferred after merge with Aerochago SA on February 1986. Return to Agro Air Associates on June 1998, re-registered HI-426CA on April 1989. Leased to Alas de Transporte Internacional on August 1990. Returned to Agro Air Associates as N426FB on June 1991, then leased to Fine Air on September 1992. Transferred to Arrow Air after merge on February 2001. Stored at Roswell Air Center Airport(KROW), New Mexico USA in April 2001. Broken up.
Douglas DC-4-1009
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle in the background.
Vickers 802 Viscount
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
Cambrian's Viscount in the background.
Douglas DC-8-32
Bristol 175 Britannia 318
On dry lease from and wearing colour of Cubana de Aviación. Must be OK-MBA or OK-MBB, operated between 1964 and 1969.
BEA's Viscount in the background.
Ilyushin Il-18B
Registration HA-MOF, c/n 183006301. Delivered new on June 1963 as Il-18B, converted to Il-18V on March 1969. Destroyed in a ground accident with a truck in November 1977 at Bucharest Otopeni (OTP/LROP).
Two BEA's Viscounts in the background.
Boeing 707-328
Bristol 175 Britannia 102
White tail fin livey of 1960-65 era.
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the foreground left. Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA,and unkown aircraft in the far background.
Vickers Vanguard of BEA background and Bristol 175 Britannia of Britannia Airways in the far background.
Caravelle of Alitalia and Swissairin the background.
Vickers Viscount
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Nice batch.
Registration G-ARPA, c/n 2101. Delivered in April 1961. Transferred to British Airways in April 1974. Wfu in April 1976.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
In the foreground, tail fin of Vickers 951 Vanguard from BEA-British European Airways, registered G-APEE, c/n 708. Crashed on approach to London Heathrow Airport on the 27th October of 1965.
Boeing 727-30
1964-66 with unpainted door frame.
Vickers VC10 Srs 1101
Wearing Meat Cleaver livery (1964-1966)
Surrounded by some BEA's Viscount, Comet and Trident.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B
Douglas DC-8-54CF Jet Trader
Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2
One of the 2 aircraft G-AMAA or G-AMAG operated by Shell Co. for VIP transport between 1959/60 to 1966.
Lockheed L-188C Electra
BEA's De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B in the background.
BEA's Vickers Vanguard in the background.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
BEA's De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B and Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy 222 in the background.
Viscount of BEA in the far background.
Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 of Shell Aviation and Viscount of BEA in the far background. BEA's Vickers Vanguard to the right foreground.
Vickers 951 Vanguard
Either G-APEF or G-APEP, too blurry to figure out fore sure.
Boeing 707-138B
Vickers 802 Viscount
BEA's Comet and Argosy in the background.
Airspeed Ambassador of Shell and BEA's Vanguard to the right.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA-British European Airways in the background.
Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 of Shell Aviation and Viscount of BEA in the background.
Ilyushin Il-18 of Polkskie Linie Lotnicze-LOT in the background with Comet behind, an unidentified aircraft to the left above the Ambassador already mentionned before.
Boeing 707-436
Vanguard from BEA in the background , tail fin of Viscount of BEA in the foreground.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N of JAT Yugoslav Airlines and VI-R of Austrian Airlines in the background.
Convair 440-61 Metropolitan
Still wearing the Aero O/Y title on the tail fin.
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the background. Viscount of BEA in the foreground right.
Boeing 707-138B
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the background. Viscount of BEA in the foreground.
Viscount of BEA in the foreground right.
Vickers 814 Viscount
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the foreground. Convair 440-61 Metropolitan of Aero O/Y Finnair in the background.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Towed between Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the foreground and a Convair 440-61 Metropolitan of Aero O/Y Finnair in the background.
Douglas DC-8-43
Vickers Viscount of Aer Lingus to the right.
Vickers 701 Viscount
Bristol 175 Britannia 314
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III of SAS in the background. Lockheed L-188C Electra of KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines in the foreground.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle IA of Finnair to the left background.
Tail fin of Vickers 953 Vanguard from BEA in the foreground registered G-APEP c/n 719. Delivered in December 1961 christenized Superb. Converted as Vickers 953C Merchantman in 1971. Transferred to British Airways fleet on April 1974. Sold to Air Bridge Carriers in 1982 then to Hunting Cargo Airlines on August 1992. Wfu in October 1996. Stored at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge (EGLB).
Already met on this site: IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing) as Vickers 953C Merchantman
Boeing 707-321
Vickers Viscount from BEA in the background.
Boeing 707-331
Douglas DC-8 of Japan Air Lines to the right.
Douglas DC-8-53
Another unidentified Douglas DC-8 behind in the background, and tail fin of Douglas DC-7 from B.O.A.C Cargo Service to the right.
Douglas DC-7CF Seven Seas
Passenger aircraft DC-7C Seven Seas from B.O.A.C converted to freighter DC-7CF version in the early years of 1960.
Two unidentified Douglas DC-8 in the background.
Boeing 720-058B
Either 4X-ABA or 4X-ABB.
A Boeing 707 of B.O.A.C in the background.
Ilyushin Il-18V
BEA's Vanguard tail fin in the foreground.
BEA's Vanguard to the right foreground.
Avro 748 Srs.1/106 & Various Aircraft
1 - Avro 748 Srs.1/106 of BKS Air Transport .
2 - De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
3 - Vickers Viscount of BEA.
4 - Unidentified aircraft.
5 - Bristol 175 Britannia 102 of BKS Air Transport.
6 - Vickers Vanguard of BEA.
7 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA.
8 - De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
9 - Vickers Vanguard of BEA.
10 -De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
1 - Avro 748 Srs.1/106 of BKS Air Transport .
2 - De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
3 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA.
4 - De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
5 - Vickers Vanguard of BEA.
6 - Unidentified aircraft, maybe a quadrijet?
7 - Unidentified aircraft.
8 - De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
9 - Unidentified aircraft.
1 - Avro 748 Srs.1/106 of BKS Air Transport .
2 - De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
3 - Vickers Vanguard of BEA.
4 - Unidentified aircraft.
5 - Unidentified aircraft.
6 - De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
7 - Unidentified aircraft.
8 - Unidentified aircraft.
9 - Vickers Viscount of BEA.
Boeing 707-321
Vickers Vanguard of BEA to the right.
The 1960s (second half)
Boeing 707-321
Painted door frame, it must be since 1966.
Tail fin of Vickers Viscount from BEA in the foreground. Another one behind the 707. Two Vickers Vanguard to the left background, and an unidentified 4 engine airplane in the far background.
To the right background: Britannia of British Eagle and another BEA's Vickers Vanguard.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
Registration OO-SRC, c/n 66. Delivered to SABENA on December 1961, leased to Sobelair on April 1971. Sold to Catair on April 1976, then to Europe Aero Service on April 1978. Wfu at Perpignan (PGF/LFMP) in 1984.
Doors frames were painted in black since 1968 on the SABENA's fleet.
Boeing 707-331
Registration N8733, c/n 20062/785. Delivered new to TWA in April 1969 and operated until September 1983. Then with Worldwide Airlines until May 1986, then stored at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson (DMA,KDMA).
Doors frames were painted since 1966 on the TWA's fleet.
Boeing 727-30
1967/1968 livery, with small caps title and painted door frames.
Bristol 175 Britannia 102
Blue tail fin from 1966-70 era.
BAC One-Eleven in the background.
Douglas DC-7B(F)
Registration G-ATAB, c/n 45361/876. Originally delivered in September 1957 as a standard DC-7B to United Air Lines, registered N6348C named Mainliner Akron - Canton. It only served as a passenger aircraft for 3 years and was converted to DC-7B(F) standard with two main-deck cargo doors in December 1960. Sold to Trans World Leasing Ltd in January 1965, re-registered G-ATAB and leased to Trans Meridian Flying Service. It was returned to Trans World Leasing in March 1966 and leased to Dan-Air London in April 1966. Dan-Air bought it in December 1966 and it continued in service until it was retired at their engineering base at Lasham, Hants, UK, in June 1969. It was broken up there in August 1973.
Unusual Turquoise livery, adapted in 1966. Changed later to standard red cheat line livery. Nicknamed Torrey Canyon because of problems with leaking oil.
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C
Unidentified airliner in the far background on the right.
Vickers VC10 Srs 1101
Wearing Blue Tail Twin Stripe 1955-1966 livery. BEA's De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B in the background.
BEA's Vickers 951 Vanguard in the background.
Unidentified airliner in the far background.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-R
BEA's Viscount in the foreground left.BEA's De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B in the background left, and Alitalia's Caravelle VI-N to the right.
BEA's Viscount behind the Alitalia's Caravelle VI-N in the background.
Curtiss-Wright C-46D Commando
One of the several Commandos leased from Capitol Airways operated for European cargo service by Lufthansa between 1964 and 1969.
British Eagle's Britannia to the right in the background.
Vickers 808 Viscount
Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
Vickers Vanguard from BEA in the far background.
Douglas DC-6B
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III of SAS in the background to the right.
Vanguard G-APEP from BEA already seen above in the foreground.IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing) as Vickers 953C Merchantman
Vickers 837 Viscount
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the background.
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the foreground.
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the foreground.
Boeing 707-437
Taxiing between a Vickers Viscount of BEA in the foreground, and another one from Lufthansa. In the far background is a De Havilland DH106 Comet 4B of BEA.
Viscount and Comet 4B from BEA in the background.
Convair 990A Coronado
Vickers 814 Viscount
Large yellow livery worn from 1959 to 1967.
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the background.
Boeing 707-138B
In V-JET livery (1961-71).
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Some BEA's Comet 4B in the background.
Icelandair's Viscount in the foreground.
Vickers 759D Viscount
Registration TF-ISN, c/n 140. Delivered November 1956 to Hunting-Clan Air Transport. Sold to Icelandair-Flugfélag Íslands on March 1957. Wfu on May 1970 in Reykjavik.
Trident 1C and Viscount of BEA in the background.
Boeing 707-344
Boeing 727-30 of Lufthansa in the background.
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15
Registration HB-IFB, c/n 45732. Delivered to Swissair in August 1966. Sold to FAA-Federal Aviation Administration in August 1968 as N119, re-registered N29 in 1975. Wfu for a while in October 1993, stored at Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma City (KOKC/OKC). Sold to US Department of Justice on June 1994 registered N813TL.
Lockheed L-188C Electra of KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines just behind.
Vickers 814 Viscount
Large yellow livery worn from 1959 to 1967.
Two Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the background.
Bristol 175 Britannia 102
Registration G-ANBE, c/n 12906. Delivered new to B.O.A.C on March 1956. Sold to Britannia Airways on January 1966. Scrapped at London Luton (EGGW/LTN) on July 1972.
Two British Eagle's variants in the background.
Boeing 707-430
Small caps letters adopted on the usual livery in 1967.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N of Alitalia to the right.
G-ANBE already listed above in the foreground.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C & Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15
Very likely same HB-IFB Obwalden already seen above, and a Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III from Swissair in the background.
BAC 111-304AX One-Eleven
Registration G-ATPJ, c/n 033. Delivered on June 1966 to British Eagle International Airlines. Leased to SAS from May 1967 to March 1968, then to KLM until September 1968. Sold to Dan-Air London on March 1970. Went to Chili as CC-CYF on lease to Chilean airline LADECO between November 1990 to November 1994. Stored at Museo Nacional de Aeronautica de Chile then at Santiago-Los Cerillos airport (SCTI/ULC). Partially dismantled by November 1999.
Boeing 707-436
In Golden Speedbird livery (1965-1970).
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N of Alitalia in the foreground.
G-ANBE Britannia already listed above in the foreground.
Various Aircraft
1 - Boeing 707-436 of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.
2 - Boeing 707-321 of Pan American World Airways.
3 - Douglas DC-8-30 of Pan American World Airways.
1 - Boeing 707-436 of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.
2 - Boeing 707-321 of Pan American World Airways.
3 - Douglas DC-8-30 of Pan American World Airways.
4 - Douglas DC-8-53 of JAL-Japan Air Lines.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10B3 Super B
De Havilland DH106 Comet 4 of Aerolíneas Argentinas in the foreground.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA-British European Airways, Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 and Boeing 707 in the far background.
To the left in the background: Bristol 175 Britannia 102 of BKS Air Transport.
BAC 111-304AX One-Eleven
Unidentified Bristol 175 Britannia to the left and Douglas DC-3 in the background.
Vickers Viscount of BEA to the right.
Vickers VC10 Srs 1101
Tupolev Tu-114
Vickers VC10 Srs 1102 of Ghana Airways in the foreground.
Boeing 707 to the right.
Boeing 707-436 of BOAC and Boeing 707-138B of Qantas in the foreground.
Vickers VC10 Srs 1102
Must be 9G-ABO or 9G-ABP at this era.
Douglas DC-8-53
Vickers VC10 of Ghana Airways already seen above to the left.
Vickers VC10 Srs 1101
Golden Speedbird livery.
BAC 111 One-Eleven
Either 201AJ, 301AG or 304AX series. Impossible to figure out from the distance.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10B3 Super B
Unknown aircraft in the background on the right.
Vickers Vanguard of BEA in the background.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-R
Vickers 800 Viscount of BEA in the foreground.
Another Caravelle in the background from an unidentified airline.
The 1970s (first half)
Vickers VC10 Srs 1101
Wearing Golden Speedbird livery.
Registration G-ARVE, c/n 807. Delivered on October 1964. Transfered to British Airways fleet in April 1974, but stored at London Airport - Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) and scrapped in October of the same year.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of Northeast Airlines (UK) to the right in the background.
Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander
Registration G-AXRN c/n129. First flight in November 1969 as Britten-Norman Ltd, sold to Humber Airways in February 1970. Leased to Ellerman Lines Ltd from January to December 1973. Sold to Fairey Britten-Norman Air Services in March 1975. Sent to Canada in April 1976 as C-GGYY and operated by BC Yukon Air Service. Sold to RAM Air Charter Ltd in November 1982, then Buffalo Airways in December 1982, Page Flight Services Ltd in December 1985, Western Arctic Air in October 1989, Aklak Air in May 1990, Arctic Wings And Rotors Ltd in April 1993. Sent to USA as N555DM for Wilfredo Velez. Last owner with Vieques Aviation Management Corp. in July 2010. Wfu nowadays.
Same Vickers VC10 Srs 1101 listed above taxiing in the background.
Boeing 727-30
Another famous three-engine airplane in the foreground: Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C in Large Red Square BEA's livery still active until 1971.
Boeing 707-436
P&W JT9D-7A engine of Boeing 747-136 from BOAC in the foreground.
Boeing 747-136
Wearing 1970-74 Golden Speedbird with Blue Titles livery.
Registration G-AWNF, c/n 19766/111. Delivered to BOAC on March 1971. Transferred to British Airways on April 1974. Sold to Kabo Air for spares as 5N-JJJ in January 2001.
Boeing 747-258B
Beside three BOAC's Boeing 707-436 to the left.
Boeing 747-136
Another one in the background.
Boeing 747-136
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Wearing Speedjack / Quarterjack livery (1968-1974).
Tupolev Tu-104A
Boeing 707-344
Boeing 747-136
PAN AM's Boeing 747-121 behind in the background.
Boeing 747-136
Boeing 747-121
McDonnell Douglas DC-8-53
Boeing 747-121
Boeing 747-131
1 - Boeing 747-131 of Trans World Airlines.
2 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
3 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of Alitalia.
4 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of Iberia.
5 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, unknown airline.
6 - Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10B3 Super B of Finnair.
1 - Boeing 747-131 of Trans World Airlines.
2 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA-British European Airways.
3 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
4 - Boeing 727-31 of Iberia.
5 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
6 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of Alitalia.
7 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of Iberia.
1 - Boeing 747-131 of Trans World Airlines.
2 - Boeing 747-237B of Air India.
3 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
4 - Vickers VC10 of BOAC.
5 - Boeing 747-121 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.
6 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
7 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
8 - Unidentified airliner.
9 - Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C of BEA-British European Airways..
10 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
11 - Boeing 707-436 of BOAC.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Registration G-ARPG, c/n 2107. Delivered on February 1964. Transfered to British Airways. on April 1974. Wfu 1976.
Ilyushin Il-62
Wearing Aeroflot livery.
Registration SU-ARO, c/n 705. Delivered to Aeroflot as CCCP-86650 on August 1970. Leased to United Arab Airlines as SU-ARO on June 1971, titled EgyptAir after the break-up of the company in 1972. Sent back to Aeroflot as CCCP-86650 on August 1972, then leased to Cubana de Aviación. Preserved in the Museum of Civil Aviation at Ulyanovsk (ULV/UWLL) since 1984.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Vickers 953 Vanguard
Registration G-APEN, c/n 717. Delivered on November 1961. Transfered to British Airways on April 1974. Sold to Merpati Nusantara Airlines in 1975.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 3B
Wearing Speedjack / Quarterjack livery with British Airways title, transition period after merge of BEA and BOAC in 1974.
Boeing 747-136
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 3B
Registration G-AWZX, c/n 2324. Delivered on March 1973 to BEA-British European Airways, transferred to British Airways on April 1974. Wfu in October 1984.
Wearing Speedjack / Quarterjack livery with no title, transition period after merge of BEA and BOAC in 1974.
Boeing 707-336C
P&W JT3D-3B engine.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1E
Registration G-AVYC, c/n 2137. Cancelled order from Channel Airways. Delivered to BKS Air Transport in April 1969. Renamed to Northeast Airlines (UK) in 1970. Merged into British Airways. in 1974. Withdrawn from use at Heathrow in 1980 and scrapped there in 1981.
Boeing 737-130
Registration D-ABEI, c/n 19020. Delivered to Lufthansa on April 1968. Sold to PEOPLExpress Airlines as N403PE on May 1981. Transfered to Continental Airlines,after merge of PEOPLExpress Airlines into Continental Airlines in February 1987. Re-registered N16203 in August 1989.
1 - Boeing 737-130 of Lufthansa.
2 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
3 - Unidentified.
4 - Boeing 747-143 of Alitalia.
5 - Unidentified.
6 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
7 - Boeing 727-31 of Iberia.
1 - Boeing 737-130 of Lufthansa.
2 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
3 - Boeing 747-121 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.
4 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
1 - Boeing 737-130 of Lufthansa.
2 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
3 - Boeing 747-237B of Air India.
4 - Lockheed L-1011 TriStar from unknown airline.
Douglas DC-8-55CF Jet Trader
Ready for take-off.
Unidentified Convair 240/340/440 to the right.
Boeing 707-344B
Ready for take-off.
To te right, same unidentified Convair 240/340/440 already mentionned above.
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 awaiting clearance in the foreground.
Fokker F27 Friendship of SABENA awaiting clearance in the foreground.
Rotation.
Vickers 802 Viscount
BEA's Speedjack / Quarterjack livery.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C
Registration G-ARPL, c/n 2112. Delivered on July 1964 to BEA-British European Airways, transferred to British Airways on April 1974. Wfu in October March 1982, stored at Edimburg Turnhouse (EGPH/EDI). Used as a fire trainer, march 3/96.
Wearing Speedjack / Quarterjack livery with British Airways title, transition period after merge of BEA and BOAC in 1974.
Another Trident 1C and a Vanguard in the background.
Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1E
Vickers VC10 from BEA and BOAC in the background left.
Several Boeing 747 in the background.
Boeing 707-436
Landing.
Various Aircraft
1 - Boeing 747-121 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.
2 - Boeing 747 unknown marking.
3 - Boeing 747-237B of Air India.
4 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
5 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
6 - Boeing 707 of BOAC.
1 - Boeing 747-237B of Air India.
2 - Boeing 747-121 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.
3 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
4 - Boeing 747 unknown marking.
5 - Boeing 747-121 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.
1 - Boeing 747-237B of Air India.
2 - Boeing 747-136 of BOAC.
3 - Boeing 747-121 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.
4 - Boeing 747-132 of Delta Air Lines.
5 - Douglas DC-8 or Boeing 707 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.
Douglas DC-8-63CF
1 - Douglas DC-8-63CF of Seaboard World Airlines.
2 - Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10B3 Super B of Finnair.
3 - Vickers VC10 Srs 1101 of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.
4 - Boeing 727-31 of Iberia.
1 - Douglas DC-8-63CF of Seaboard World Airlines.
2 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
3 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of Iberia.
4 - McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of Alitalia.
5 - Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10B3 Super B of Finnair.
6 - Vickers VC10 Srs 1101 of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32
Registration HB-IFT, c/n 47281. Delivered to Swissair in December 1968. Sold to Texas International Airlines in January 1981 as N533TX. Transferred to Continental Airlines in October 1982 after merge of the two companies. Leased to Eastern Air Lines between January 1990 and January 1991. Re-registered N17533 in July 1993. Leased to Legend Airlines in July 2000 as N922LG, then to Laser Airlines in March 2002 as YV-1121C. Re-Registered YV167T in November 2005. Wfu , stored at Orland Sanford International (SFB/KSFB) in 2013.
Douglas DC-8-63CF
Boeing 747-131
Boeing 727-228
Boeing 707-384B
Douglas DC-8-61
Boeing 747 of Pan Am and BOAC in the background.
Boeing 747-121
Vickers 953C Merchantman
Registration G-APEK, c/n 714. Delivered to British European Airways on September 1961 as Vickers 953 Vanguard. Converted to Merchantman on January 1970 for use by cargo division BEA Cargo. Transfered to British Airways Cargo on April 1974. Sold to Air Bridge Carriers in November 1979. Wfu in 1990.
Aero Spacelines 377SGT Super Guppy
Registration N212AS, c/n 02. Built in 1972, ferried from USA before delivery to Aéromaritime in Toulouse as F-BPPA in 1973 for Airbus airlinks. Changed to Airbus Skylink in 1983. Preserved at Toulouse Blagnac (LFBO/TLS].
Douglas DC-8-63
Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
To the right background: Caravelle III of Air France, Tupolev Tu-134 of Aeroflot, Douglas DC-8 of Japan Air Lines.
Boeing 707-436
Boeing 707-321B
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- Avion Video Series
- Aero Spacelines Super Guppy
- Airspeed Ambassador
- Airspeed Consul
- Armstrong Whitworth A.W.660 Argosy
- Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
- Avro York
- BAC One-Eleven
- Beechcraft Model 18
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 720
- Boeing 727
- Boeing 737
- Boeing 747
- Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter
- Breguet Provence
- Bristol 170 Freighter
- Bristol 175 Britannia
- Britten-Norman Islander
- Canadair CL-44
- Convair 240/340/440
- Convair 880/990
- Convair C-131 Samaritan
- Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando
- De Havilland DH104 Dove
- De Havilland DH106 Comet
- De Havilland DH114 Heron
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas C-54 Skymaster
- Douglas C-74 Globemaster
- Douglas C-118 Liftmaster
- Douglas C-124 Globemaster II
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-4
- Douglas DC-6
- Douglas DC-7
- Douglas DC-8
- Fairchild C-82 Packet
- Fokker F27 Friendship
- Handley Page Dart Herald
- Handley Page Hermes
- Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident
- Hawker Siddeley HS.748
- Ilyushin Il-14
- Ilyushin Il-18
- Ilyushin Il-62
- Lockheed Constellation
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
- Martin 4-0-4
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9
- Percival Proctor
- Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer
- Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle
- Tupolev Tu-104
- Tupolev Tu-114
- Tupolev Tu-134
- Vickers Vanguard
- Vickers VC10
- Vickers Viking
- Vickers Viscount
- Westland Whirlwind (helicopter)
- Aer Lingus
- Aeroflot
- Aerolíneas Argentinas
- Air Canada
- Air Ceylon
- Air France
- Air India
- Alitalia
- American Airlines
- Austrian Airlines
- BKS Air Transport
- BOAC Cargo Service
- BOAC-Cunard
- Britannia Airways
- British Air Ferries
- British Airways
- British Eagle International Airlines
- British European Airways
- British European Airways Cargo
- British Overseas Airways Corporation
- Cambrian Airways
- Canadian Pacific Air Lines
- Capital Airlines
- Capitol Air
- ČSA Czech Airlines
- Cubana de Aviación
- Cunard Eagle Airways
- Dan-Air
- Delta Air Lines
- Derby Airways Cargo Service
- Eagle Airways Ltd
- East African Airways
- El Al Israel Airlines
- Finnair
- Flying Tiger Line
- Ghana Airways
- Humber Airways
- Iberia
- Icelandair-Flugfélag Íslands
- Japan Airlines
- JAT Yugoslav Airlines
- KLM
- Kuwait Airways
- Loftleiðir-Icelandic Airlines
- LOT Polish Airlines
- LTU International
- Lufthansa
- Malév Hungarian Airlines
- Middle East Airlines
- Misrair
- Modern Air
- Morton Air Services
- Nigeria Airways
- Olympic Airways
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Pan American World Airways
- Qantas
- SABENA
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- Seaboard World Airlines
- South African Airways
- Spantax
- Starways
- Sudan Airways
- Swissair
- Syrian Arab Airlines
- TAP Portugal
- Trans-Canada Air Lines
- Transcontinental SA
- Trans Mediterranean Airways
- Trans World Airlines
- Turkish Airlines
- United Arab Airlines
- VARIG