Originally Posted by
Bergerie1
BOAC DC7Cs
G-AOIA - sold to FB Ayers in May 1964
A-AOIB - sold to FB Ayers in March 1964
G-AOIC - sold to FB Ayers in February 1964
G-AOID - sold to FB Ayers in May 1963
G-AOIE - sold to Caledonian Airways in April 1964
G-AOIF - sold to FB Ayers in June 1964
G-AOIG - sold to FB Ayers in April 1963
G-AOIH - sold to FB Ayers in May 1963
G-AOII - sold to Universal Leasing Corp. in Jume 1965
G-AOIJ - sold to Universal Leasing Corp in May 1965
Does anyone know who or what FB Ayers was?
F B Ayers was presumably a bank or lessor. The seven DC-7s that BOAC sold to them in 1963/64 went to Saturn Airways.
Universal Leasing Corp of Panama waas a subsidiary of F B Ayer. The two DC-7s that they bought from BOAC in 1965 went to SAS and Airlift International, respectively.
Re the photo of G-AOIF at JFK in 1962, it may indeed have been carrying passengers (though hard to see anyone choosing to cross the Pond in a DC-7 when both the 707 and Britannia served the route). Photos of the BOAC DC-7s on the Net suggest that not all were converted to full cargo configuration - in fact the only ones I've found sporting the large cargo doors and "BOAC Cargo Service" titles are the final two aircraft that left the fleet in 1965 and were certainly freighters by 1961.
The 1962 BOAC timetable shows the DC-7 operating a twice-weekly Delhi-LHR-JFK & v.v. cargo service.
So, getting back to the OP's query, the last BOAC piston operations were likely in Summer 1964 by the two remaining freighters. They were withdrawn from service by the end of that year.