Originally Posted by
kenparry
G-AXOX was the first jet operated by Gulf Air, and was based in Bahrain in 1969-70. Had this aircraft first gone to the Bahamas?
G-AXOX was initially part of the BAC "lease fleet", supplied new to Bahamas Airways as their first to tide them over until their first, ordered -500 series was ready. Doesn't seem to have had a UK registration at this stage but went straight onto the Bahamas register. It came back, and then went on to Gulf Air, still in the era when Gulf registered all their aircraft in London, where it spent nearly 10 years, being re-registered locally along the way, before coming back to the UK and resuming that previous G- registration which Gulf had got for it.
If you go to the Gulf Air museum in Sharjah (15 minutes down the road from Dubai DXB) you will find all the old aircraft in their very nice exhibition they have there are G-reg.