707 leases - THE 'INSTANT AIRLINE' CONCEPT
re post from VictorGolf
Following on from Midland's post, Bill Gunston's book "Diamond Flight" suggests that the 707s were operated by Air Algerie, Air Inter, Bangladesh Biman, DETA/LAM, East African, Gulf Air, Iraqi, Kuwait, Libyan Arab, Malaysian, Nigeria, PIA, Tunis Air and Zambia in addition to those mentioned. No wonder he got an award!
Apparently Ernie Robey only had 36 hours to do a repaint.
to add to the above list we leased also to....
Ariana
Britannia
El Al
BCAL
Syrian
Somali
eagle air
air Rwanda
Zaire aero
Sudan blue Nile service (was the very first 707 leasing contract 1972)
Kenya AW start up for the new airline 1977
THE FIRST HIJACKING
In 1977 BMA also experienced its first hijacking whilst on the lease business – needless to say in the Middle East, on a flight from Beirut to Kuwait. By Palestinians. In this case the situation was resolved without the aircraft being blown up or anybody murdered.
707 FLEET first operated from 1970 until 1984
Boeing 707-321 G-AYBJ*, G-AYVE*, G-AYVG, G-AYXR, G-AZWA & G-BAEL
Boeing 707-324C G-AZJM
Boeing 707-373C N370WA
Boeing 707-338C G-BFLD* & G-BFLE*
Boeing 707-321C N448M/N448 became G-BMAZ*
*painted in full BMA colours for own charter services
Last edited by rog747; 1st Dec 2015 at 13:58.