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Old 10th Mar 2010, 17:30
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The BKS Brit 102s were G-ANBD, H, K and the infamous G-APLL, re-registered by Sir Basil Smallpiece after a disasterous tour of East Africa with (I think) the prime minister of the day when registered G-ANBG where it spent most of the time AOG and was consequently nicknamed "No Bloody Good".

Only one, G-ANBK, made it into Northeast where it was used largely as a back-up for the Trident 1Es and the occasional IT, of the others BD and LL were broken up in Newcastle in late 69/early 70 and BH in Southend in 9/69. BK was eventually scrapped in NCL in March 72 and was the only one to bear the yellow Northeast colour scheme.

Spent many hours dead-heading up and down Amber 1 in them - the cockpit was like the bridge of a ship.
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