Originally Posted by
gruntie
Not to detract, but I was under the impression that the first airline to carry HMQ (or any other British monarch) was East African Airways, when they took her to Entebbe to link up with a BOAC Argonaut following the death of George VI? Or, does it mean after the Coronation?
My understanding too. Of course neither of those flights were scheduled services. The flight referred to by the OP has a BEA Flt No. so could this be the first time the Queen travelled on a "scheduled service"?
The date of the flight is given as June 56. I feel sure the Queen was on airliners several times between Feb 52 and June 56. In fact she was back in Uganda in 1954 (I think) and flew with EAAC again: this time on DC3 VP-KJU "Sagana II".