Originally Posted by
LGS6753
My first flight was in Morton Air Services' Heron G-ASUZ, on a pleasure flight from Lydd in September 1970.
I seem to remember that Morton operated six Herons from Gatwick. Weren't they somehow associated with British United?
G-ARZG is correct. Morton's had become part of the BUA group. However, in 1968, after the purge of the group by Alan Bristow, it merged with BUA (CI) and BUA (Manx) to become part of the newly-formed BUIA.("I" as in Island). Sometime in 1970, probably a few months before Caledonian bought BUA mainline (around December 1970) to form Caledonian-BUA - later BCAL, the name was changed from BUIA to BIA.
So Morton's no longer existed by September 1970. According to
rzjets, G-ASUZ (a Mk 2D as built) was de-registered as such on 14/11/68. In case it helps, on 1/9/68 I was P2 on UZ during pleasure flights at Lydd. The a/c would probably have been still in Morton livery. Captain was N MacIndoe.