Originally Posted by
bankangle
Reference the East African Airways c/s. Flew for Tradewinds in 1970s and we did a large number of cargo sub charters for East African. We were allocated "Simba" For these flights. One night we were called "Seychelles" by ATC in London FIR, when I then looked it up SIMBA was officially the callsign of "Seychelles and Kilimanjairo Air Transport" - I believe a wholly owned subsidiary of East African
around 1975 EAA obtained A Boeing 707-323C for EAA cargo ops - it waS impounded at LHR
later operated for tradewinds as G-BFEO 10/77-3/80
Boeing 707 freighter (5X-UWM) was bought from American Airlines and delivered on 15th May 1975 for freight services mainly to Europe. Not actually operated directly by EAA but painted in a variation of East African colours and used by Simbair. It ended up being impounded at London Heathrow in 1977 after the airline EAA had gone bankrupt.