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OUAQUKGF Ops
A click on the photo shows 19751215 Diversions. No Court Line Aircraft or Court Line ground equipment visible.
15/12/75 is correct. From memory, the quoted number of diversions for the day was 47, beating the previous highest which I believe was 34 on 4/1/69. A few bizjets and other GA aircraft were probably included in this figure. I have a list of most of them if anyone is interested. I believe Heathrow was fogbound all day, with LTN staying 7-10km, which didn't happen too often. I suspect the photo was taken in the morning as the KLM DC-8-63 wasn't there when I visited early afternoon. The Germanair 1-11 was a regular on Mondays and Fridays.
Yes, G-BBZG became OY-APU with Maersk Air.