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Old 29th Aug 2022, 15:22
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Originally Posted by chevvron
I did a Gatwick - Rotterdam trip with BAF in a Viscount but I failed to note the date however it must have been later than '81 (possbly even late '80s)
Originally Posted by chevvron
Originally Posted by WHBM
Was this flight actually a B Cal operation which BAF ran for them.
The dedicated Viscount put into B Cal livery for Gatwick-Rotterdam connections (a very long established BUA and their own predecessors route going back into the 1950s, and possibly initially operated from Croydon) was G-AOYR, which ran as such from March 1985 to May 1986. It was a onetime BKS/Northeast aircraft. There's a detail of its history here, but apart from these aspects note how it records the aircraft being "borrowed" occasionally by BKS while still in BEA ownership, and thus livery, and thus doubtless turning up at Leeds in this condition, hence the original post question. Possibly others did the same.

Viscount c/n 266 operational record (vickersviscount.net)

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