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Old 27th Apr 2018, 13:25
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B757-236 G-CPET was the a/c that flew the last passenger service, on Sat Oct 30th 2010. The aircraft had been painted in the 'British' version on the Negus colour-scheme and carried the name 'Stokesay Castle. I've attached a picture, not my own, which I found via 'Google Images'. I worked the a/c at Scottish Centre, from Dean Cross down to Honiley. It had descended to FL90, and as we weren't busy we allowed it to navigate visually on a 'sight-seeing tour'. I'm fairly certain the crew said they were trying to overfly the castle, which is near Ludlow, but the edge of controlled airspace prevented them from doing so. I remember transmitting "auf wiedersehen pet" as we transferred it to London Control.
Also, B747-136 was simply 'John Donne'......Without the 'The'.

Great piece of work putting all this together.
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