When G-BMLP first visited these shores, there were quite a few issues with the CAA getting it certificated in view of both the JATO system and the previous damage history of the airframe. It spent part of its first summer flying for Dan-Air as N727ZV (I think?) and was always reckoned by the Dan crews to be a little bit faster than the other 727s, which was some going as the 727s could comfortably overtake a 737 which had left ten minutes earlier on a night flight back to the UK from Corfu or Malaga.