Originally Posted by
dixi188
When Court Line went bust the 1-11s were re-possessed by BAC pretty quickly.
My Father (a BAC Senior Inspector) flew to Luton from Hurn in the company HS125 with 4 BAC pilots and cleared the aircraft for the ferry flight to Hurn two at a time. I think the Liens on the aircraft were sorted by the commercial people.
Within about 2 or 3 days 10 of the aircraft were at Hurn with the word Court painted out so nobody would know where the aircraft were from!!!!!! (remember the colours)
The last of the 1-11s was stuck at Nicosia in Cyprus due to the war going on at the time. It was about 6 months later that my father was involved in recovering that aircraft.
This info is IIRC.
I have a (possibly faulty) memory that the aircraft stuck in Nicosia had actually been the recipient of some small arms fire and required some repairs to the pressure hull before it could be flown out?