Originally Posted by
DH106
Sorry for the thread drift (maybe I should start my own on this), but Mooncrest - I too grew up under the approach of 15/14 at LBA and have often wondered if the airport ever saw certain types in the old days e.g. Vanguard, Britannia ?
I don't personally remember seeing either type at LBA but I do know for certain that at least one Invicta Vanguard has visited. I've seen a photograph of it parked on stand 1 some time in the early 1970s. It's quite likely to have been on a bulb field charter to Rotterdam. If you look on YouTube, there is a sequence of LBA in the 1970s and the Invicta Vanguard is on there. As for the Bristol Britannia, I absolutely don't know but it is a possibility, given BKS and Northeast kept one or two as back-up aircraft for the Heathrow flights. Helen49, if they're about, will have a better idea.