Originally Posted by
oldandbald
Air Spain and others
As far as I recall they used Air Spain *** eg "Air Spain 115 " Sounded like hand held mikes, heavy accent and background noise. Had a few interesting DC-8 arrivals at Luton !!
Some random jottings in a very old notebook of mine have "Air Spain 112" into Birmingham on Sat evenings in 1969, out again as the 113, would have been on a Brit back then. Also noted were "Spantax 172", CV990 into Manchester Sun lunchtimes, "Spantax 157" also a CV990 Palma-Manchester Fri evenings, "Mediterranean 926" (S.A.M.) crossing Lydd at FL240 so presumably a DC-6 and inbound Birmingham on a Friday afternoon. US supplementals also heard in 1969, all using registrations, included World, Capitol, Overseas National and American Flyers ("Flyers 826 and 827 = N12826 and N12827, both 727-100's). More interesting - although I didn't realise it at the time - was "Cedarjet 990" on 21/9/69 routing Lichfield-Daventry-Seaford, almost certainly M.E.A. CV990 OD-AFJ on delivery, bought from American 2 days earlier.