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Old 7th May 2018, 11:08
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gruntie
 
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Originally Posted by ZFT
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I thought Ghana and Nigeria VC10s were their own aircraft?
Ghana was their own: they ordered 3, operated one, leased one to MEA which was destroyed shortly afterwards at Beirut, and cancelled the third which was taken up by British United.

Nigeria did both: leased one from BOAC and then bought one from them, which they crashed.

East African had five Supers, never chartered or borrowed, so I don’t know how that came about. See previous post no. 26 for their Comet useage. They did charter more than one Britannia, but only one at a time. They were left in BOAC livery with the Speedbird on the tail changed to the Flying Lion, and the fuselage titles changed to ‘EAAC’ just by changing the ‘BO’.


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