British Airways Aircraft Names

[sparkie320]

I'm putting together a list of names that the aircraft once wore, wonder if anyone can add any missing info to the list . why dont they still name the aircraft it would be a great thing to do

BRITISH AIRWAYS FLEET

During the 80s and early 90s aircraft carried names, usually placed under the cockit window on the nose section of the aircraft. Here is a compressive list of the names carried where known
HS748 fleet

Scottish Glenns

G-ATMJ - GLEN NEVIS
G-BCOE - GLEN LIVET
G-BCOF - GLEN FIDDIC
G-BGJV - GLEN AVON
G-BGMN - GLEN FINNAN
G-BGMO - GLEN GOYNA
G-BMFT - GLEN ISLA
G-BOHY - GLEN SHEE
G-BOHZ - GLEN TURRET
G-HDBA - GLEN ESK
G-HDBB - GLEN EAGLES
G-HDBC - GLEN DRONACH

BAe ATP fleet

Scottish River Valleys

G-BTPA – STRATHBLANE
G-BTPC – STRATHALLAN
G-BTPD – STRATHCONON
G-BTPE – STRATHDON
G-BTPF – STRATHLARN
G-BTPG – STRATHFILLAN
G-BTPH – STRATHNAVER
G-BTPJ – STRATHPEFFER
G-BTPK – STRATHRANNOCH
G-BTPL – STRATHSPEY
G-BTPM – STRATHRORY
G-BTPN – STRATHBRORA
G-BTPO – STRATHCLYDE
G-BUWP – STRATHISLA

BAC 1-11 –400 SERIES
G-AVGP - COUNTY OF NOTTINHAMSHIRE / CITY OF COVENTRY
G-AVOE - No name carried
G-AVOF - No name carried
G-AWBL - COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE / CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
G-BBME - COUNTY OF SHROPSHIRE / CITY OF NOTTINGHAM
G-BBMF - COUNTY OF WORCESTERSHIRE
G-BBMG - COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE / STRATFORD UPON AVON

G-AVGP / G-AWBL / G-BBME & G-BBMG went on to operate for Maersk Air and later gained City Names as shown

BAC 1-11-510ED Fleet

G-AVMH - COUNTY OF CHESHIRE
G-AVMI - COUNTY OF AVON
G-AVMJ - STRATHCLYDE REGION
G-AVMK - COUNTY OF KENT
G-AVML - COUNTY OF SURREY
G-AVMM - COUNTY OF ANTRIM
G-AVMN - COUNTY OF ESSEX
G-AVMO - LOTHIAN REGION
G-AVMP - BAILIWICK OF JERSEY
G-AVMR - COUNTY OF TYNE AND WEAR
G-AVMS - COUNTY OF WEST SUSSEX
G-AVMT - GLAMORGAN / COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE
G-AVMU - COUNTY OF DORSET
G-AVMV - GREATER MANCHESTER COUNTY
G-AVMW - GRAMPION REGION
G-AVMX - COUNTY OF EAST SUSSEX
G-AVMY - COUNTY OF DERBYSHIRE
G-AVMZ - COUNTY OF LANCASHIRE
BAC 1-11 –539GL Fleet

G-BGKE - COUNTY OF WEST MIDLANDS
G-BGKF - COUNTY OF WARWICKSHIRE
G-BGKG - COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE
BAC1-11 –500

Former British Caledonian fleet took over

G-AWYR - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
G-AWYS - COUNTY OF NORFOLK
G-AWYT - COUNTY OF CORNWELL
G-AWYU - COUNTY OF AVON
G-AWYV - COUNTY OF POWYS
G-AXJK - COUNTY OF HEREFORD
G-AXJM - COUNTY OF DURHAM
G-AXLL - COUNTY OF YORKSHIRE
G-AYOP - COUNTY OF HUMBERSIDE
G-AZMF - COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND
G-AZPZ - DUMFRIES & GALLOWWAY REGION
G-BJRT - COUNTY OF SOUTH GLAMORGAN
G-BJRU - COUNTY OF WEST GLAMORGAN

Boeing 737-236adv Fleet

Rivers
G-BGDA - BRIDGWATER / RIVER TAMAR
G-BGDB - RIVER TWEED
G-BGDC - RIVER HUMBER
G-BGDD - RIVER TEES
G-BGDE - RIVER AVON / PRIDE OF MANCHESTER
G-BGDF - RIVER THAMES / RIVINGTON PIKE
G-BGDG - RIVER MEDWAY / THRUGH OF BOWLAND
G-BGDH - RIVER CYLDE
G-BGDI - RIVER OUSE / PENINE WAY
G-BGDJ - RIVER TRENT / DELAMERE FOREST
G-BGDK - RIVER MERSEY / RIBBLE VALLEY
G-BGDL- RIVER DON / VALE OF LUNE
G-BGDN - RIVER TYNE
G-BGDO - RIVER USK
G-BGDP - RIVER TAFF
G-BGDR - RIVER BANN
G-BGJE - SANDPIPER / RIVER WEAR
G-BGJF - SKYLARK / RIVER AXE
G-BGJG - KINGFISHER / RIVER ANUN
G-BGJH - OSPREY / RIVER LYNE
G-BGJI - SWALLOW / RIVER WEY
G-BGJJ - KESTRAL / RIVER SWALE
G-BGJK - FIRECREST / RIVER CHENWELL
G-BGJJ - GOLDFINCH / RIVER ORRIN
G-BGJM- CURLEW / RIVER RIBBLE
G-BKYA- RIVER DERWENT / ARIEL
G-BKYB- RIVER STOUR / PORTIA
G-BKYC- RIVER WYE
G-BKYD- RIVER CONWY / CYMELINE
G-BKYE - RIVER LAGAN / HIPPOLYTA
G-BKYF- RIVER SPEY / MISTRESS QUICKLY
G-BKYG- RIVER EXE / PROSPERO
G-BKYH - RIVER DART / HOTSPUR
G-BKYI - RIVER WAVENEY
G-BKYJ - RIVER NEATH / TOUCHSTONE
G-BKYK - RIVER FOYLE
G-BKYL - RIVER ISIS / TITANIA
G-BKYM - RIVER CAM / MOONSIDE
G-BKYN - RIVER AYR / PRINCE HAL
G-BKYO - RIVER KENNET / OBERON
G-BKYP - RIVER YSTWYTH

G-BGJE-G-BGJM were delivered new to British Airtours and carried name of Birds whilst operated by them, they became Rivers on transfer to British Airways
Note some were transferred to Manchester or Birmingham operations and gained local names or Shakespeare names
BOEING 737-3L9
G-BOZA - RIVER LOSSIE
G-BOZB - RIVER WYRE
G-CMMP – RIVER COLNE
G-CMMR – RIVER ORWELL

Boeing 737-400 (Ex Dan Air Fleet)
None were given names
G-BNNK G-BNNL G-BPNZ G-BSNV
G-BSNW G-BUHJ G-BUHK G-BUHL
G-BVNM G-BVNN G-BVNO G-TREN

Boeing 737-436 Fleet
G-DOCA - RIVER BALLINDERRY
G-DOCB - RIVER BUSH
G-DOCC - RIVER AAFRIC
G-DOCD - RIVER AIRE
G-DOCE - RIVER ALNESS
G-DOCF - RIVER BEAULY
G-DOCG - RIVER BLACKWATER
G-DOCH - RIVER BRUE
G-DOCI - RIVER CARRON
G-DOCJ - RIVER GLASS
G-DOCK - RIVER LOCHAY
G-DOCL - RIVER LUNE
G-DOCM - RIVER MEON
G-DOCN - RIVER OTTERY
G-DOCO - RIVER PARRETT
G-DOCP - RIVER SWIFT
G-DOCR - RIVER TAVY
G-DOCS - RIVER TEIFI
G-DOCT - RIVER TENE
G-DOCU - RIVER TEVIOT
G-DOCV - RIVER THURSO
G-DOCW - RIVER TILL
G-DOCX - RIVER TIRRY
G-DOCZ - RIVER WHARF
G-GBTA - COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
Airbus A320 Fleet

British Isle’s
G-BUSB - ISLE OF JERSEY
G-BUSC - ISLE OF SKYE
G-BUSD - ISLE OF MULL
G-BUSE - ISLES OF SCILLY
G-BUSF - ISLE OF MAN
G-BUSG - ISLE OF WIGHT
G-BUSH - ISLE OF JURA
G-BUSI - ISLE OF ANGLESSEY
G-BUSJ - ISLE OF SARK
G-BUSK - ISLE OF GURNESY
Boeing 757-236 Fleet
Castle’s
G-BIKA – DOVER CASTLE
G-BIKB – WINDSOR CASTLE
G-BIKC – EDINBURGH CASTLE
G-BIKD – CAERNAFON CASTLE
G-BIKF – CARRICKFERGUS CASTLE
G-BIKG – STERLING CASTLE
G-BIKH – RICHMOND CASTLE
G-BIKI – TINTAGEL CASTLE
G-BIKJ – CONWY CASTLE
G-BIKK – EILEAN DONAN CASTLE
G-BIKL – NOTTINGHAM CASTLE
G-BIKM – GLAMIS CASTLE
G-BIKN – BODIAM CASTLE
G-BIKO – HARLECH CASTLE
G-BIKP – ENNISKILEN CASTLE
G-BIKR – BAMBURGH CASTLE
G-BIKS – CORFE CASTLE
G-BIKT – CAISBROOKE CASTLE
G-BIKU – INVERARAY CASTLE
G-BIKV – RAGLAN CASTLE
G-BIKW – BELVOIR CASTLE
G-BIKX – WARWICK CASTLE
G-BIKY – LEEDS CASTLE (Kent)
G-BIKZ – KENILWORTH CASTLE
G-BMRA - BEAUMARIS CASTLE
G-BMRB – COLCHESTER CASTLE
G-BMRC – ROCHESTER CASTLE
G-BMRD – BOTHWELL CASTLE
G-BMRE – KILLYLEAGH CASTLE
G-BMRF – HEVER CASTLE
G-BMRG – CAERPHILLY CASTLE
G-BMRH - NORWICH CASTLE
G-BMRI – TONBRIDGE CASTLE
G-BMRJ – OLD WARDOUR CASLTE
G-BPED – BLAIR CASTLE
G-BPEI - Un-Named
G-BPEJ - Un-Named
G-CPEL- WALLMER CASLTE
G-BPEK – NAME UNKNOWN
G-CPEM - Un-Named
G-CPEN - Un-Named
G-CPEO - Un-Named
G-CPEP - Un-Named
G-CPER - Un-Named
G-CPES - Un-Named
G-CPET - Un-Named
G-CPEU - Un-Named
G-CPEV - Un-Named
G-BPEA- LOCH OF THE CLANS / KIDWELLY CASTLE
G-BPEB - LOCH LOMAND
G-BPEC - LOCH KATRINE / SIR SIMON RATTLE (Orchestra Conductor)
G-BPEE - LOCH TAY / ROBERT LUIS STEVENSON (Engineer)
G-BPEF - LOCH FANNCH
G-BPEH - LOCH HOURN
Notes- G-BPEA / EB / EC / EE /EF /EH were operate by Caledonian Airways at Gatwick and wore Loch Names, EA /EC /EE transferred to British Airways and were re-named as such. Others were later sold
Boeing 767 –236 Fleet
European Cities
G-BNWA – CITY OF BRUSSELS
G-BNWB – CITY OF PARIS
G-BNWC- CITY OF FRANKFURT
G-BNWD – CITY OF COPENHAGEN
G-BNWE – CITY OF LISBON
G-BNWF – CITY OF MILAN
G-BNWG – CITY OF STRASBOURG
G-BNWH – CITY OF ROME
G-BNWI – CITY OF MADRID
G-BNWJ – CITY OF ATHENS
G-BNWK – CITY OF AMSTERDAM
G-BNWL – CITY OF LUXEMBOURG
G-BNWM – CITY OF TOULOUSE
G-BNWN - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
G-BNWO - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
G-BNWP- CITY OF DUBLIN
G-BNWR – CITY OF HAMBURG
G-BNWS – CITY OF OPORTO
G-BNWT – CITY OF CORK
G-BNWU - ROBERT BURNS
G-BNWV – CITY OF BONN
G-BNWW – CITY OF MARSEILLES
G-BNWX – CITY OF BILBAO
G-BNWY – CITY OF HELSINKI
G-BNWZ- Un-Named

Notes- G-BNWN / WO /WU were used at Manchester / Birmingham and gained
Writers or poets names
G-BZHA- BZHC were delivered latter and never gained any names
Lockheed Tristar Fleet

LOCKHEED TRISTAR-500
English Roses
G-BFCA – PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE
G-BFCB- THE HENRY WHEATCROFT ROSE
G-BFCC – THE ENGLISH MISS ROSE
G-BFCD – THE ASTRAL ROSE
G-BFCE – UNKNOWN
G-BFCF – ELIZABETH OF GLAMIS
G-BLUS – LAGGAN BAY
G-BLUT – DUNNET BAY

LOCKHEED TRISTAR 1
G-BBAE - THE STARGAZER ROSE / TORBAY /LOCH EARNS
G-BBAF - THE CORONATION GOLD ROSE / BABBACOMBE BAY/
LOCH FYNE
G-BBAG - ROSE NAME UNKNOWN / BRIDGWATER BAY
G-BBAH - THE SUNILK ROSE / LYME BAY /LOCH AVON
G-BBAI - THE MOLLEY MCGREDY ROSE /LOCH INVER
G-BBAJ - THE ELIZABETH HARKNESS ROSE / HOLLYHEAD BAY /
LOCH RANNOCK
G-BEAK - THE NORTHERN LIGHT ROSE / CARMARTHON BAY
G-BEAL - THE RED DEVIL ROSE / LOCH MOY
G-BEAM - THE SILVER JUBILEE ROSE / SWANSEA BAY

LOCKHEED TRISTAR 200
G-BGBB - THE LAKELAND ROSE / BRIDLINGTO BAY
G-BGBC - THE SHOT SILK ROSE / ST ANDREWS BAY
G-BHBL - THE RED ENSIGN ROSE / LARGO BAY
G-BHBM - THE PICCDILLY ROSE / POOLE BAY
G-BHBN - THE FRAGRANT ROSE / BIDDEFORD BAY
G-BHBO - THE MORNING JEWEL ROSE / ST MAGNUS BAY
G-BHBP - OSPREY /
G-BHBR - GOLDERN EAGLE / BUDE BAY
Notes- Englsh roses when in original livery became Bays when pained into the
Landor livery and Loch’s when operated by Caledonian Airways
G-BHBP & G-BHBR were delivered new to British Airtours and latter gained Bays
Names when transferred to British Airways
Douglas DC10-30
G-BEBL – FOREST OF DEAN
G-BEBM- SHERWOOD FOREST
G-BHDH- BENNMOOR FOREST (LOCH TORRIDON WITH CALEDONIAN)
G-BHDI – FOREST OF AE
G-BHDJ – GLEN CAP FOREST
G-DC10 – EPPING FOREST
G-MULL- NEW FOREST
G-NIUK – CAIRN EDWARD FOREST
Boeing 747-136 Fleet
G-AWNA - Sir Richard Grenville Sir Richard Grenville TO 1984
CITY OF PETERBOROUGH 1984 – 1989
COLIFORD LAKE 1989 – RETIREMENT
G-AWNB - CITY OF NEWCASTLE
LLANGORSE LAKE
G-AWNC - CITY OF BELFAST
LAKE WINDERMERE
G-AWND - CITY OF LEEDS
G-AWNE - SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
UNKNOWN CITY
DERWNT WATER
G-AWNF - CITY OF WESTMINSTER
BLAGDON LAKE
G-AWNG - CITY OF LONDON
RUTLAND WATER
G-AWNH - SIR WALTER RALEIGH
CITY OF INVERNESS
DEVOKE WATER
G-AWNI – UN-KNOWN
G-AWNJ – THE JOHN DONNE
CITY OF SHEFFIELD
BASSENTHWAITE LAKE
G-AWNK – WILIAM SHAKESPEAR
G-AWNL - WILIAM SHAKESPEAR (AFTER 1981)
UNKNOWN CITY
ENNERDALE WATER
G-AWNM- CITY OF BRISTOL
ULLSWATER
G-AWNN – CITY OF LEICESTER
LOWESWATER
G-AWNO – CITY OF DURHAM
GRAFHAM WATER
G-AWNP - SIR JOHN HAWKINS
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH
HANNINGFIELD WATER

G-BBPU – HENRY HUDSON
CITY OF DUNDEE
VIRGINIA WATER
G-BDPV – CITY OF ABERDEEN
BLEA WATER

Boeing 747-236B - fleet
G-BDXA – CITY OF PETERBOROUGH
G-BDXB – CITY OF LIVERPOOL
G-BDXC – CITY OF MANCHESTER
G-BDXD – CITY OF PLYMOUTH
G-BDXE – CITY OF GLASGOW
G-BDXF – CITY OF YORK
G-BDXG – CITY OF OXFORD
G-BDXH – CITY OF ELGIN
G-BDXI – CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
G-BDXJ – CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
G-BDXK – CITY OF CANTERBURY
G-BDXL – CITY OF WESTMINSTER
G-BDXM – CITY OF DERBY
G-BDXN – CITY OF STOKE ON TRENT
G-BDXO – CITY OF BATH
G-BDXP – CITY OF SALISBURY

Other 747-200s OPERATED

G-BJXN - CITY WORCESTER
G-BLVE– CITY OF LINCOLN
G-BLVF - CITY OF LANCASTER
G-BMGS - CITY OF SWANSEA
G-GLYN - CITY OF PERTH
G-CITB - CITY OF NORWICH
G-HUGE - CITY OF EXETER
G-NIGB - CITY OF GLOUCHESTER

Boeing 747-436-Fleet
G-BNLA – CITY OF LONDON
G-BNLB – CITY OF EDINBURGH
G-BNLC – CITY OF CARDIFF
G-BNLD – CITY OF BELFAST
G-BNLE – CITY OF NEWCASTLE
G-BNLF – CITY OF LEEDS
G-BNLG – CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
G-BNLH – CITY OF WESTMINSTER
G-BNLI – CITY OF SHEFFIELD
G-BNLJ – CITY OF NOTTINGHAM
G-BNLK – CITY OF BRISTOL
G-BNLL – CITY OF LEICESTER
G-BNLM – CITY OF DURHAM
G-BNLN – CITY OF PORTSMOUTH
G-BNLO – CITY OF DUNDEE
G-BNLP – CITY OF ABERDEEN
G-BNLR – CITY OF HULL
G-BNLS – CITY OF CHESTER
G-BNLT – CITY OF LINCOLN
G-BNLU- CITY OF BANGOR
G-BNLV – CITY OF EXETER
G-BNLW – CITY OF NORWICH
G-BNLX – CITY OF WORCESTER
G-BNLY – CITY OF SWANSEA
G-BNLZ – CITY OF PERTH
G-CIVA – CITY OF ST DAVIDS
G-CIVB – CITY OF LICHFIELD
G-CIVC – CITY OF ST ANDREWS
G-CIVD – CITY OF COVENTRY
G-CIVE – CITY OF SUNDERLAND
G-CIVF – CITY OF ST ALBANS
G-CIVG – CITY OF WELLS
G-CIVH – CITY OF HEREFORD
G-CIVI – CITY OF GLOUCESTER
G-CIVJ – Un-Named
G-CIVK – Un-Named
G-CIVL – Un-Named
G-CIVM – Un-Named

Boeing 777-236 Fleet
G-ZZZA - SIR FRANK WHITTLE
G-ZZZB - SIR WILIAM SEFTON BRANCKER
G-ZZZC - SIR C E KINGSFORD-SMITH
G-ZZZD - WILBUR WRIGHT
G-ZZZE - SIR JOHN ALOCK & SIR ARTHUR WHITTEN-BROWN
G-VIIB - CITIES OF DALLAS / FORT WORTH
G-RAES – ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY

[TOWTEAMBASE]

That took some typing :) and a lot of research too I bet

[DaveReidUK]

See here for the missing TriStar names: Names of BA's L-1011s (http://flytristar.tripod.com/page_resource/bawl10.html)

[ExSp33db1rd]

Currently away from home, so can't check my logbook for some of the Stratocruiser names, Canopus, Coriolanus, Constellation, etc. all Astro related.

Will try to remember when I get home in August.

Well done.

[26er]

I liked the Aer Lingus scheme of giving saint's names to their aircraft. Their BAC 1-11 simulator was labelled StThetic.

[sparkie320]

yea just a bit but enjoyable shame they stopped naming aircraft

[HZ123]

B707 G--PB at LGW with British Airtours carried the name 'Pretty Boy' under the P1 window.

[Skipness One Echo]

Some corrections :

G-BTPA – STRATHALLAN
G-BTPC – STRATHBLANE
G-BTPD – STRATHCONAN
G-BTPE – STRATHDON
G-BTPF – STRATHEARN
G-BTPG – STRATHFILLAN
G-BTPH – STRATHNAVER
G-BTPJ – STRATHPEFFER

Funny what you remember, the remainder were actually un-named.

G-RAES – ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY Was registered in honour of but not named as such, this was to avoid a G-VIII (G-8!).

[LAS1997]

Don't forget Trident three G-AWZE 'Robin of Cranebank'

[Big Eric]

Can anyone remember the names of the Viscounts and Vanguards, I've got them all in my 1964 edition of CAM !?

[Jhieminga]

G-APEP is Superb
G-APEJ was Ajax
G-APES was Swiftsure
There was a Vanguard (of course) and a Hermes as well but that's the ones I can come up with without checking sources.
No clue about Viscounts...

[TCU]

Don't forget G-BDPZ, B747-148 leased from Aer Lingus in mid/late 70's.

She always wore a hybrid BA livery and I don't think ever had a fleet name, but she was of course affectionately known as "Paddy Zulu"

[Flightwatch]

This idled away a couple of hours!

Here are the Viscounts.

V.701 (RMA = Royal Mail Aircraft)

G-ALWE RMA Discovery
G-ALWF RMA Sir John Franklin
G-AMOA RMA George Vancouver
G-AMOB RMA William Baffin
G-AMOC RMA Richard Chancellor
G-AMOD RMA John Davis
G-AMOE RMA Sir Edward Parry
G-AMOF RMA Sir Martin Frobisher
G-AMOG RMA Robert Falcon Scott
G-AMOH RMA Henry Hudson
G-AMOI RMA Sir Hugh Willoughby
G=AMOJ RMA Sir James Ross
G-AMOK RMA Sir Humphrey Gilbert
G-AMOL RMA David Livingstone
G-AMOM RMA James Bruce
G-AMON RMA Sir Thomas Cavendish
G-AMOO RMA John Oxenham
G-AMNY RMA Sir Ernest Shackleton
G-AMNZ RMA James Cook
G-ANHA RMA Sir Anthony Jenkinson
G-ANHB RMA Sir Henry Stanley
G-ANHC RMA Sir Leopold McLintock
G-ANHD RMA William Dampier
G-ANHE RMA Gino Watkins
G-ANHF RMA Matthew Flinders
G-AOFX RMA Sir Joseph Banks

V.707 (leased from Tradair)
G-APZC Un-named

V.732 (leased)
G-ANRS RMA George Bass

V,736 (leased from Fred Olsen)
G-AODG RMA Fridtjof Nansen
G-AODH RMA Roald Amundsen

V.779D (leased from Fred Olsen)
G-ARBW Un-named

V.745D (leased from Vickers-Armstrong)
G-APNF RMA Philip Carteret

V.793D (leased from Vickers-Armstrong)
G-APNG RMA Sir James Lancaster


V.779D Leased From Vickers Armstrong)
G-APZP Un-named

V.802
G-AOJA RMA Sir Samuel White Baker
G-AOJB RMA Stephen Borough
G-AOJC RMA Robert O’Hara Burke
G-AOJD RMA Sebastian Cabot
G-AOJE RMA Sir Alexander McKenzie
G-AOJF RMA Sir George Summers
G-AOHG RMA Richard Hakluyt
G-AOHH RMA Sir Robert McLure
G-AOHI RMA Charles Montagu Doughty
G-AOHJ RMA Sir John Maderville
G-AOHK RMA John Manning Speke
G-AOHL RMA Charles Sturt
G-AOHM RMA Robert Machin
G-AOHN RMA Alexander Gordon Laing
G-AOHN RMA Alexander Gordon
G-AOHO RMA Samuel Wallis
G-AOHP RMA James Weddel
G-AOHR RMA Sir Richard Burton
G-AOHS RMA Robert Thorne
G-AOHT RMA Ralph Fitch
G-AOHU RMA Sir George Strong Nares
G-AOHV RMA Sir John Barrow
G-AOHW RMA Sir Francis Younghusband
G-AORC RMA Richard Lander
G-AORD RMA Arthur Phillip

V.806

G-AOYG RMA Charles Darwin
G-AOYH RMA William Harvey
G-AOYI RMA Sir Humphrey Davy
G-AOYJ RMA Edward Jenner
G-AOYK RMA Edmund Cartwright
G-AOYL RMA Lord Joseph Lister
G-AOYM RMA John Loudon McAdam
G-AOYN RMA Sir Isaac Newton
G-AOYO RMA Adam Smith
G-AOYP RMA John Napier
G-AOYR RMA Sir Richard Arkright
G-AOYS RMA George Stepenson
G-AOYT RMA James Watt
G-APEX RMA John Harrison
G-APEY RMA William Murdoch
G-APIM RMA Robert Boyle
G-APJU RMA Sir Gilbert Blane
G-APKF RMA Michael Faraday
G-APOX RMA Isambard Brunel

[Flightwatch]

Having done the above I have now found the following page - this will give all the names going back to the Rapide, Dak, Viking, Ambassador, Vanguard etc. and of course the Viscounts!

https://books.google.com.cy/books?id=6h1C4IEWnNEC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=bea+vanguard+names&source=bl&ots=OnYxoFOGGi&sig=F-LpbOoKa3R9Yn4akMlpRKD6ADE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QZuJVbrJFMr7UJ35gOAM&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=bea%20vanguard%20names&f=false

[Flightrider]

Agreed, it is a shame that they no longer do this. I suppose where the majority of aircraft are boarded nowadays via an airbridge, it is no longer visible to the customer so was dispensed with around the time of the T4 move.

The Vanguards carried their BEA names through BA as Merchantmen and then Air Bridge (latterly Hunting) carried the names on those aircraft they later acquired. They were EG = Arethusa, EI - Indefatigable, EJ - Ajax, EK - Dreadnought, EL - Leander, EM = Agamemnon, EO = Orion, EP = Superb, ER = Amethyst, ES = Swiftsure, ET = Temeraire, EU = Dauntless.

Piece of pub quiz trivia: the Vanguard names were all ships of the line in Nelson's time, with Swiftsure being a prize captured in the Battle of Trafalgar. I can't even begin to imagine the sense of righteous indignation from the SNP if British Airways named its aircraft after our Trident-carrying nuclear subs today - it's almost worth doing it just to provoke an apoplectic reaction from Sturgeon and Salmond.

[Flightrider]

Another piece of trivia - on the 757s, any BA leased aircraft wore the name Braemar Castle - from memory, this was carried by Air Europe's G-BKRM, Air 2000's G-OOOB (Winter 87/88) and Monarch's G-DRJC at different times when on lease to BA. Only DRJC was painted, the others wore basic Air Europe or Air 2000 livery at the time, but were still named!

And one final question - does anyone know why the last two Tristar 200s were named after birds rather than continuing the flow of roses at that time - did they simply run out? I can't think so, but am just intrigued to know why the sudden change part-way, which was most unlike BA at the time. 'HBP - Osprey - was the last aircraft still flying in the old Negus & Negus scheme in about 1988, if I remember rightly.

[DaveReidUK]

And one final question - does anyone know why the last two Tristar 200s were named after birds rather than continuing the flow of roses at that time - did they simply run out? I can't think so, but am just intrigued to know why the sudden change part-way, which was most unlike BA at the time. 'HBP - Osprey - was the last aircraft still flying in the old Negus & Negus scheme in about 1988, if I remember rightly.

Explained in the very first post (originally delivered to British Airtours, who named their aircraft after birds).

[Alan Baker]

Comments about Vanguards carrying names are incorrect. BEA abandoned aircraft naming with the introduction of the "red square" livery. All Vanguards were allocated names, but as they were all delivered in the "red square" livery, they never carried them in BEA service. Similarly, all Viscounts lost their names when repainted in the new livery. BOAC had already abandoned aircraft naming, the Stratocruisers and Argonauts were the last to carry names, no Comets or Britannias were ever named.

[Groundloop]

no Comets or Britannias were ever named.

They were - all Comets were named either 'Comet' or 'Comet 4' and all Britannias were named 'Britannia' - at least that's what it said were all other BOAC aircraft at that time carried their actual names.:ok:

[oftenflylo]

Vanguard G-APEA was in 'peony colour' with 'vanguard' on nose

[vctenderness]

With reference to leased 747-148 G-PDPZ - Paddy Zulu.

It is part of the BA legend that when it was returned to Aer Lingus in their livery of white and Green the lads who ferried it left a note on the flight deck which read: PLEASE FLY GREEN SIDE UP.

apologies to anyone of Irish descent:ok:

[victor tango]

Britannias and Viscount names can be found on Britisheagle.net.


Here are Reg and a/c info files including a/c names

Home of Eagle - Aircraft (http://www.britisheagle.net/Aircraft-By-Reg-and-Type.htm)

[sparkie320]

thanks guys for all the input
it seems i;ve opened a bigger subject here. as we gone back to the BEA/BOAC days .what have i started
but is there anyone that can add anymore to my list before i close it and start new project

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

It is part of the BA legend that when it was returned to Aer Lingus in their livery of white and Green the lads who ferried it left a note on the flight deck which read: PLEASE FLY GREEN SIDE UP.

That's most interesting! I can confirm that I flew Copenhagen - Manchester on an Aer Lingus aeroplane probably back in the late 80s or early 90s (the memory is fading!) and visited the flight deck. On the back of the flight deck door was a sticker "Fly this aeroplane green side up"!

I remember it a round printed sticker and assumed it was common in Aer Lingus flight decks, but time plays tricks with the memory.

[Flightrider]

There's a bit more to that story, although I don't know that it relates directly to Paddy Zulu or one of the other two Aer Lingus 747s on which BA were conducting a major check.

Apparently, the "Fly Green Side Up" placard was translated into Gaelic and left on the centre console, unattached to the aircraft, as a bit of light amusement.

Before the arrival of the Aer Lingus crew to take the aircraft home, one of the BA senior engineers did a walk-through of the aircraft, and spotted said placard on the the flightdeck. Not appreciating its content, he thought it must have been a mistake that it had not been mounted properly, so called two mechanics to screw the placard onto the aircraft in a blank mounting space.

They duly did as tasked, and an apoplectic reaction ensued from the Aer Lingus crew when they arrived and saw the placard. It was, I'm told from someone who was present, nearly cause for deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to the BA hangar at Heathrow.

I'm sure the tale will have been embellished somewhat over the years, but that's what I heard from someone who said he was there....

[Volume]

I liked the Aer Lingus scheme of giving saint's names to their aircraft.
Did that help their accident statistics ? :ouch:

Seriously, changing the name given to a ship has always been understood as meaning very bad luck. Aircrafts are re-named quite often. Are pilots less superstitous than sailors ?

[rightbank]

Another small correction. G-BDXH was City of Edinburgh not Elgin. I only remember this as it was the Indonesian volcano aircraft and I flew on it a week after reading a book about the incident.

[sparkie320]

think will start to add the older aircraft as so many have replied

next project got to be British Caledonian any offers of help there

thanks again all

https://www.flickr.com/photos/88573897@N03/sets

[ZOOKER]

G-ARTA, The prototype VC10.........'Loch Ness'.
There's your starter.
And well done with the BA List too.

[DaveReidUK]

G-BDXL – CITY OF WESTMINSTER
G-BDXL was "City of Winchester".

It may have worn "City of Westminster" briefly, but I can't find any evidence for that.

Another small correction. G-BDXH was City of Edinburgh not ElginNo, it was renamed after Jakarta.

[rightbank]

No, it was renamed after Jakarta

If it was renamed it was some time after Jakarta. That happened in 1982 and my flight in it was December 1987. Its the only time I ever flew in a -200 and it still had City of Edinburgh on the nose then. As I said I had only just finished reading the book about the incident so it was a surprise to see the name on disembarking.

[dixi188]

I remember the unveiling of BCAL's first B747 G-BJXN.
Adam Thompson pulled back the curtain to reveal "MUNGO PARK The Scottish Explorer" and we all said WHO?

[DaveReidUK]

If it was renamed it was some time after Jakarta. That happened in 1982 and my flight in it was December 1987. Its the only time I ever flew in a -200 and it still had City of Edinburgh on the nose then.

No argument there - it was renamed from "City of Edinburgh" to "City of Elgin" in 1989, so the latter name was the one worn for most of its 22 years with BA.

[renfrew]

I always thought it rather a pity that the Imperial Airways/BOAC names wre not carried forward.
eg Caledonia/Canopus/Coriolanus on C Class and Stratocruisers.
Bristol/Berwick/Bangor on Boeing 314 and L049.

[rightbank]

No argument there - it was renamed from "City of Edinburgh" to "City of Elgin" in 1989
That would make sense as the OP has G-BNLB, a -436 also named City of Edinburgh and that was registered in...1989! On closer examination I notice that the list has a few duplicate names. I guess they wanted the bigger cities names on the newer aircraft.

[sparkie320]

It seems this started a bit bigger then expected
so added Viscounts /Vangaurds that moved over to British Airways
This list covers just British Airways not BEA/BOAC yet
Enjoy and of course coment
i assume No 707s /VC10s gained names


BRITISH AIRWAYS FLEET

During the 80s and early 90s aircraft carried names, usually placed under the cockit window on the nose section of the aircraft. Here is a compressive list of the names carried where known


The following aircraft were never named

Vickers VC10s G-ARVA-G-ARVM
Super VC10s G-ASGA-G-ASGR
Boeing 707-336s
Boeing 707-436s
Boing 737-300 / 400s Inherited from Dan Air
Concorde





VICKERS VANGUARD
G-APEA
G-APEB
G-APEC
G-APED
G-APEE
G-APEF
G-APEG - ARETHUSA
G-APEH -
G-APEI - INDEFATIGABLE
G-APEJ - AJAX
G-APEK - DREADNOUGHT
G-APEL - LEANDER
G-APEM - AGAMEMMON
G-APEN -
G-APEO - ORION
G-APEP - SUPERB
G-APER - AMETHYST
G-APES - SWIFTSURE
G-APET - TEMERAIRE
G-APEU - DAUNTLESS
VICKERS VISCOUNT

G-AOJB - SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
G-AOJC - ROBERT O’HARA BURKE
G-AOJD - SEBASTIAN CABOT
G-AOJE - SIR ALEXANDER MCKENZIE
G-AOJF - SIR GEORGE SUMMERS
G-AOHG - RICHARD HAKLUYT
G-AOHH - SIR ROBERT MCLURE
G-AOHI - CHARLES MONTAGU DOUGHTY
G-AOHJ - SIR JOHN MADERVILLE
G-AOHK - JOHN MANNING SPIKE
G-AOHL - CHARLES STURT
G-AOHM - ROBERT MACHIN
G-AOHN - ALEXANDER GORDAN LANG
G-AOHO - ALEXANDER GORDAN
G-AOHP - JAMES WEDDEL
G-AOHR - SIR RICHARD BURTON
G-AOHS - ROBERT THORNE
G-AOHT - RALPH FITCH
G-AOHU - SIR GEORGE STRONG NARES
G-AOHV - JOHN BARROW
G-AOHW - SIR FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND
G-AORC - RICHARD LANDER
G-AORD - ARTHUR PHILIP
G-AOYG - CHARLES DARWIN
G-AOYH - WILLIAM HARVEY
G-AOYI - SIR HUMPHREY DAVY
G-AOYJ - EDWARD JENNER
G-AOYK - EDMUND CARTWRIGHT
G-AOYL - LORD JOSEPH LISTER
G-AOYM - JOHN LOUDON McADAM
G-AOYN - SIR ISSAC NEWTON
G-AOYO - ADAM SMITH
G-AOYP - JOHN NAPPIER
G-AOYR - SIR RICHARD ARKRIGHT
G-AOYS - GEORGE STEPENSON
G-AOYT - JAMES WATT
G-APEX - JOHN HARRISON
G-APEY - WILLIAM MURDOCH
G-APKF - MICHAEL FARADAY
G-APIM - ROBERT BOYLE
G-APJU - SIR GIBERT BLANE
G-APOX - ISAMBARD BRUNEI
HS748 fleet
Scottish Glenns

G-ATMJ - GLEN NEVIS
G-BCOE - GLEN LIVET
G-BCOF - GLEN FIDDIC
G-BGJV - GLEN AVON
G-BGMN - GLEN FINNAN
G-BGMO - GLEN GOYNA
G-BMFT - GLEN ISLA
G-BOHY - GLEN SHEE
G-BOHZ - GLEN TURRET
G-HDBA - GLEN ESK
G-HDBB - GLEN EAGLES
G-HDBC - GLEN DRONACH


BAe ATP fleet

Scottish River Valleys

G-BTPA – STRATHBLANE
G-BTPC – STRATHALLAN
G-BTPD – STRATHCONAN
G-BTPE – STRATHDON
G-BTPF – STRATHEARN
G-BTPG – STRATHFILLAN
G-BTPH – STRATHNAVER
G-BTPJ – STRATHPEFFER
G-BTPK – STRATHRANNOCH
G-BTPL – STRATHSPEY
G-BTPM – STRATHRORY
G-BTPN – STRATHBRORA
G-BTPO – STRATHCLYDE
G-BUWP – STRATHISLA
BAC 1-11 –400 SERIES
G-AVGP - COUNTY OF NOTTINHAMSHIRE
CITY OF COVENTRY
G-AVOE - No name carried
G-AVOF - No name carried
G-AWBL - COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
G-BBME - COUNTY OF SHROPSHIRE
CITY OF NOTTINGHAM
G-BBMF - COUNTY OF WORCESTERSHIRE
G-BBMG - COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
STRATFORD UPON AVON

G-AVGP / G-AWBL / G-BBME & G-BBMG went on to operate for Maersk Air and later gained City Names as shown


BAC 1-11-510ED Fleet


G-AVMH - COUNTY OF CHESHIRE
G-AVMI - COUNTY OF AVON
G-AVMJ - STRATHCLYDE REGION
G-AVMK - COUNTY OF KENT
G-AVML - COUNTY OF SURREY
G-AVMM - COUNTY OF ANTRIM
G-AVMN - COUNTY OF ESSEX
G-AVMO - LOTHIAN REGION
G-AVMP - BAILIWICK OF JERSEY
G-AVMR - COUNTY OF TYNE AND WEAR
G-AVMS - COUNTY OF WEST SUSSEX
G-AVMT - GLAMORGAN
COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE
G-AVMU - COUNTY OF DORSET
G-AVMV - GREATER MANCHESTER COUNTY
G-AVMW - GRAMPION REGION
G-AVMX - COUNTY OF EAST SUSSEX
G-AVMY - COUNTY OF DERBYSHIRE
G-AVMZ - COUNTY OF LANCASHIRE
BAC 1-11 –539GL Fleet
G-BGKE - COUNTY OF WEST MIDLANDS
G-BGKF - COUNTY OF WARWICKSHIRE
G-BGKG - COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE
BAC1-11 –500

Former British Caledonian fleet took over

G-AWYR - COUNTY OF SUFFOLK
G-AWYS - COUNTY OF NORFOLK
G-AWYT - COUNTY OF CORNWELL
G-AWYU - COUNTY OF AVON
G-AWYV - COUNTY OF POWYS
G-AXJK - COUNTY OF HEREFORD
G-AXJM - COUNTY OF DURHAM
G-AXLL - COUNTY OF YORKSHIRE
G-AYOP - COUNTY OF HUMBERSIDE
G-AZMF - COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND
G-AZPZ - DUMFRIES & GALLOWWAY REGION
G-BJRT - COUNTY OF SOUTH GLAMORGAN
G-BJRU - COUNTY OF WEST GLAMORGAN

Boeing 737-236adv Fleet
Rivers

G-BGDA - BRIDGWATER
RIVER TAMAR
G-BGDB - RIVER TWEED
G-BGDC - RIVER HUMBER
G-BGDD - RIVER TEES
G-BGDE - RIVER AVON
PRIDE OF MANCHESTER
G-BGDF - RIVER THAMES
RIVINGTON PIKE
G-BGDG - RIVER MEDWAY
TROUGH OF BOWLAND
G-BGDH - RIVER CYLDE
G-BGDI - RIVER OUSE
PENINE WAY
G-BGDJ - RIVER TRENT
DELAMERE FOREST
G-BGDK - RIVER MERSEY
RIBBLE VALLEY
G-BGDL- RIVER DON
VALE OF LUNE
G-BGDN - RIVER TYNE
G-BGDO - RIVER USK
G-BGDP - RIVER TAFF
G-BGDR - RIVER BANN
G-BGJE - SANDPIPER
RIVER WEAR
G-BGJF - SKYLARK
RIVER AXE
G-BGJG - KINGFISHER
RIVER ANUN
G-BGJH - OSPREY
RIVER LYNE
G-BGJI - SWALLOW
RIVER WEY
G-BGJJ - KESTRAL
RIVER SWALE
G-BGJK - FIRECREST
RIVER CHENWELL
G-BGJL - GOLDFINCH
RIVER ORRIN
G-BGJM- CURLEW
RIVER RIBBLE
G-BKYA- RIVER DERWENT
ARIEL
G-BKYB- RIVER STOUR
PORTIA
G-BKYC- RIVER WYE
G-BKYD- RIVER CONWY
CYMELINE
G-BKYE - RIVER LAGAN
HIPPOLYTA
G-BKYF- RIVER SPEY
MISTRESS QUICKLY
G-BKYG- RIVER EXE
PROSPERO
G-BKYH - RIVER DART
HOTSPUR
G-BKYI - RIVER WAVENEY
G-BKYJ - RIVER NEATH
TOUCHSTONE
G-BKYK - RIVER FOYLE
G-BKYL - RIVER ISIS
TITANIA
G-BKYM - RIVER CAM
MOONSIDE
G-BKYN - RIVER AYR
PRINCE HAL
G-BKYO - RIVER KENNET
OBERON
G-BKYP - RIVER YSTWYTH

G-BGJE-G-BGJM were delivered new to British Airtours and carried name of Birds whilst operated by them, they became Rivers on transfer to British Airways
Note some were transferred to Manchester or Birmingham operations and gained local names or Shakespeare names


BOEING 737-3L9

G-BOZA - RIVER LOSSIE
G-BOZB - RIVER WYRE
G-CMMP – RIVER COLNE
G-CMMR – RIVER ORWELL

Boeing 737-436 Fleet

G-DOCA - RIVER BALLINDERRY
G-DOCB - RIVER BUSH
G-DOCC - RIVER AFFRIC
G-DOCD - RIVER AIRE
G-DOCE - RIVER ALNESS
G-DOCF - RIVER BEAULY
G-DOCG - RIVER BLACKWATER
G-DOCH - RIVER BRUE
G-DOCI - RIVER CARRON
G-DOCJ - RIVER GLASS
G-DOCK - RIVER LOCHAY
G-DOCL - RIVER LUNE
G-DOCM - RIVER MEON
G-DOCN - RIVER OTTERY
G-DOCO - RIVER PARRETT
G-DOCP - RIVER SWIFT
G-DOCR - RIVER TAVY
G-DOCS - RIVER TEIFI
G-DOCT - RIVER TENE
G-DOCU - RIVER TEVIOT
G-DOCV - RIVER THURSO
G-DOCW - RIVER TILL
G-DOCX - RIVER TIRRY
G-DOCZ - RIVER WHARF
G-GBTA - COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
Airbus A320 Fleet
British Isle’s

G-BUSB - ISLE OF JERSEY
G-BUSC - ISLE OF SKYE
G-BUSD - ISLE OF MULL
G-BUSE - ISLES OF SCILLY
G-BUSF - ISLE OF MAN
G-BUSG - ISLE OF WIGHT
G-BUSH - ISLE OF JURA
G-BUSI - ISLE OF ANGLESSEY
G-BUSJ - ISLE OF SARK
G-BUSK - ISLE OF GURNESY
Boeing 757-236 Fleet
Castle’s
G-BIKA – DOVER CASTLE
G-BIKB – WINDSOR CASTLE
G-BIKC – EDINBURGH CASTLE
G-BIKD – CAERNAFON CASTLE
G-BIKF – CARRICKFERGUS CASTLE
G-BIKG – STERLING CASTLE
G-BIKH – RICHMOND CASTLE
G-BIKI – TINTAGEL CASTLE
G-BIKJ – CONWY CASTLE
G-BIKK – EILEAN DONAN CASTLE
G-BIKL – NOTTINGHAM CASTLE
G-BIKM – GLAMIS CASTLE
G-BIKN – BODIAM CASTLE
G-BIKO – HARLECH CASTLE
G-BIKP – ENNISKILLEN CASTLE
G-BIKR – BAMBURGH CASTLE
G-BIKS – CORFE CASTLE
G-BIKT – CAISBROOKE CASTLE
G-BIKU – INVERARAY CASTLE
G-BIKV – RAGLAN CASTLE
G-BIKW – BELVOIR CASTLE
G-BIKX – WARWICK CASTLE
G-BIKY – LEEDS CASTLE (Kent)
G-BIKZ – KENILWORTH CASTLE
G-BMRA - BEAUMARIS CASTLE
G-BMRB – COLCHESTER CASTLE
G-BMRC – ROCHESTER CASTLE
G-BMRD – BOTHWELL CASTLE
G-BMRE – KILLYLEAGH CASTLE
G-BMRF – HEVER CASTLE
G-BMRG – CAERPHILLY CASTLE
G-BMRH - NORWICH CASTLE
G-BMRI – TONBRIDGE CASTLE
G-BMRJ – OLD WARDOUR CASLTE
G-BPED – BLAIR CASTLE
G-BPEI - Un-Named
G-BPEJ - Un-Named
G-CPEL- WALLMER CASLTE
G-BPEK – CAREW CASTLE
G-CPEM - Un-Named
G-CPEN - Un-Named
G-CPEO - Un-Named
G-CPEP - Un-Named
G-CPER - Un-Named
G-CPES - Un-Named
G-CPET - Un-Named
G-CPEU - Un-Named
G-CPEV - Un-Named
G-BPEA- LOCH OF THE CLANS
KIDWELLY CASTLE
G-BPEB - LOCH LOMAND
G-BPEC - LOCH KATRINE
SIR SIMON RATTLE (Orchestra Conductor)
G-BPEE - LOCH TAY
ROBERT LUIS STEVENSON (Engineer)
G-BPEF - LOCH FANNCH
G-BPEH - LOCH HOURN
Notes- G-BPEA / EB / EC / EE /EF /EH were operate by Caledonian Airways at Gatwick and wore Loch Names, EA /EC /EE transferred to British Airways and were re-named as such. Others were later sold

Boeing 767 –236 Fleet

European Cities
G-BNWA – CITY OF BRUSSELS
G-BNWB – CITY OF PARIS
G-BNWC- CITY OF FRANKFURT
G-BNWD – CITY OF COPENHAGEN
G-BNWE – CITY OF LISBON
G-BNWF – CITY OF MILAN
G-BNWG – CITY OF STRASBOURG
G-BNWH – CITY OF ROME
G-BNWI – CITY OF MADRID
G-BNWJ – CITY OF ATHENS
G-BNWK – CITY OF AMSTERDAM
G-BNWL – CITY OF LUXEMBOURG
G-BNWM – CITY OF TOULOUSE
G-BNWN - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
G-BNWO - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
G-BNWP- CITY OF DUBLIN
G-BNWR – CITY OF HAMBURG
G-BNWS – CITY OF OPORTO
G-BNWT – CITY OF CORK
G-BNWU - ROBERT BURNS
G-BNWV – CITY OF BONN
G-BNWW – CITY OF MARSEILLES
G-BNWX – CITY OF BILBAO
G-BNWY – CITY OF HELSINKI
G-BNWZ- Un-Named

Notes- G-BNWN / WO /WU were used at Manchester / Birmingham and gained
Writers or poets names
G-BZHA- BZHC were delivered latter and never gained any names

Lockheed Tristar Fleet

LOCKHEED TRISTAR-500

English Roses

G-BFCA – PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE
G-BFCB- THE HENRY WHEATCROFT ROSE
G-BFCC – THE ENGLISH MISS ROSE
G-BFCD – THE ASTRAL ROSE
G-BFCE – THE GAY GORDONS ROSE
G-BFCF – ELIZABETH OF GLAMIS
G-BLUS – LAGGAN BAY
G-BLUT – DUNNET BAY

LOCKHEED TRISTAR 1

G-BBAE - THE STARGAZER ROSE
TORBAY
LOCH EARNS
G-BBAF - THE CORONATION GOLD ROSE
BABBACOMBE BAY
LOCH FYNE
G-BBAG - THE CAROLINE DAVIDSON
BRIDGWATER BAY
G-BBAH - THE SUNILK ROSE
LYME BAY
LOCH AVON
G-BBAI - THE MOLLY MCGREDY ROSE
LOCH INVER
G-BBAJ - THE ELIZABETH HARKNESS ROSE
HOLLYHEAD BAY
LOCH RAMONCH
G-BEAK - THE NORTHERN LIGHT ROSE
CARMARTHON BAY
G-BEAL - THE RED DEVIL ROSE
CARDIGAN BAY
LOCH MOY
G-BEAM - THE SILVER JUBILEE ROSE
SWANSEA BAY

LOCKHEED TRISTAR 200
G-BGBB - THE LAKELAND ROSE
BRIDLINGTON BAY
G-BGBC - THE SHOT SILK ROSE
ST ANDREWS BAY
G-BHBL - THE RED ENSIGN ROSE
LARGO BAY
G-BHBM - THE PICCDILLY ROSE
POOLE BAY
G-BHBN - THE FRAGRANT ROSE
BIDDEFORD BAY
G-BHBO - THE MORNING JEWEL ROSE
ST MAGNUS BAY
G-BHBP - OSPREY
WHITSTAND BAY
G-BHBR - GOLDERN EAGLE
BUDE BAY
Notes- Englsh roses when in original livery became Bays when pained into the
Landor livery and Loch’s when operated by Caledonian Airways
G-BHBP & G-BHBR were delivered new to British Airtours and latter gained Bays
Names when transferred to British Airways

Douglas DC10-30

G-BEBL – FOREST OF DEAN
G-BEBM- SHERWOOD FOREST
G-BHDH- BENNMOOR FOREST
LOCH TORRIDON
G-BHDI - FOREST OF AE
G-BHDJ – GLEN CAP FOREST
G-DC10 – EPPING FOREST
G-MULL- NEW FOREST
G-NIUK – CAIRN EDWARD FOREST

Boeing 747-136 Fleet

G-AWNA - SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE (Till 1984 )
CITY OF PETERBOROUGH (1984 – 1989)
COLIFORD LAKE (1989-Retirement)
G-AWNB - CITY OF NEWCASTLE
LLANGORSE LAKE
G-AWNC - CITY OF BELFAST
LAKE WINDERMERE
G-AWND - CITY OF LEEDS
G-AWNE - SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
UNKNOWN CITY
DERWNT WATER
G-AWNF - CITY OF WESTMINSTER
BLAGDON LAKE
G-AWNG - CITY OF LONDON
RUTLAND WATER
G-AWNH - SIR WALTER RALEIGH
CITY OF INVERNESS
DEVOKE WATER
G-AWNI – UN-KNOWN
G-AWNJ – THE JOHN DONNE
CITY OF SHEFFIELD
BASSENTHWAITE LAKE
G-AWNK – WILIAM SHAKESPEAR
G-AWNL - WILIAM SHAKESPEAR (AFTER 1981)
UNKNOWN CITY
ENNERDALE WATER
G-AWNM- CITY OF BRISTOL
ULLSWATER
G-AWNN – CITY OF LEICESTER
LOWESWATER
G-AWNO – CITY OF DURHAM
GRAFHAM WATER
G-AWNP - SIR JOHN HAWKINS
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH
HANNINGFIELD WATER

G-BBPU – HENRY HUDSON
CITY OF DUNDEE
VIRGINIA WATER
G-BDPV – CITY OF ABERDEEN
BLEA WATER
Boeing 747-236B - fleet

G-BDXA – CITY OF PETERBOROUGH
G-BDXB – CITY OF LIVERPOOL
G-BDXC – CITY OF MANCHESTER
G-BDXD – CITY OF PLYMOUTH
G-BDXE – CITY OF GLASGOW
G-BDXF – CITY OF YORK
G-BDXG – CITY OF OXFORD
G-BDXH – CITY OF EDINBURGH R/N in 1989
CITY OF ELGIN
G-BDXI – CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
G-BDXJ – CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
G-BDXK – CITY OF CANTERBURY
G-BDXL – CITY OF WINCHESTER
G-BDXM – CITY OF DERBY
G-BDXN – CITY OF STOKE ON TRENT
G-BDXO – CITY OF BATH
G-BDXP – CITY OF SALISBURY

Other 747-200s OPERATED

G-BJXN - CITY WORCESTER
G-BLVE– CITY OF LINCOLN
G-BLVF - CITY OF LANCASTER
G-BMGS - CITY OF SWANSEA
G-GLYN - CITY OF PERTH
G-CITB - CITY OF NORWICH
G-HUGE - CITY OF EXETER
G-NIGB - CITY OF GLOUCHESTER
Boeing 747-436-Fleet
G-BNLA – CITY OF LONDON
G-BNLB – CITY OF EDINBURGH
G-BNLC – CITY OF CARDIFF
G-BNLD – CITY OF BELFAST
G-BNLE – CITY OF NEWCASTLE
G-BNLF – CITY OF LEEDS
G-BNLG – CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
G-BNLH – CITY OF WESTMINSTER
G-BNLI – CITY OF SHEFFIELD
G-BNLJ – CITY OF NOTTINGHAM
G-BNLK – CITY OF BRISTOL
G-BNLL – CITY OF LEICESTER
G-BNLM – CITY OF DURHAM
G-BNLN – CITY OF PORTSMOUTH
G-BNLO – CITY OF DUNDEE
G-BNLP – CITY OF ABERDEEN
G-BNLR – CITY OF HULL
G-BNLS – CITY OF CHESTER
G-BNLT – CITY OF LINCOLN
G-BNLU- CITY OF BANGOR
G-BNLV – CITY OF EXETER
G-BNLW – CITY OF NORWICH
G-BNLX – CITY OF WORCESTER
G-BNLY – CITY OF SWANSEA
G-BNLZ – CITY OF PERTH
G-CIVA – CITY OF ST DAVIDS
G-CIVB – CITY OF LICHFIELD
G-CIVC – CITY OF ST ANDREWS
G-CIVD – CITY OF COVENTRY
G-CIVE – CITY OF SUNDERLAND
G-CIVF – CITY OF ST ALBANS
G-CIVG – CITY OF WELLS
G-CIVH – CITY OF HEREFORD
G-CIVI – CITY OF GLOUCESTER
G-CIVJ – Un-Named
G-CIVK – Un-Named
G-CIVL – Un-Named
G-CIVM – Un-Named
Boeing 777-236 Fleet
G-ZZZA - SIR FRANK WHITTLE
G-ZZZB - SIR WILIAM SEFTON BRANCKER
G-ZZZC - SIR C E KINGSFORD-SMITH
G-ZZZD - WILBUR WRIGHT
G-ZZZE - SIR JOHN ALOCK & SIR ARTHUR WHITTEN-BROWN
G-VIIB - CITIES OF DALLAS / FORT WORTH

[Allan Lupton]

I wouldn't trust any engineering by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I hope none of the dodgy speling was on the aeroplanes!

[sparkie320]

cheers lol
sorry typo error

[crewmeal]

I'm surprised BA didn't name the 'Budgie' fleet after famous whiskies :ok:

[DaveReidUK]

I'm surprised BA didn't name the 'Budgie' fleet after famous whiskiesYou're not a connoisseur, I take it ...

http://www.topshelfliquor.co.nz/user/images/192_300_420.jpg

http://www.stationhotelportsoy.co.uk/whisky/glenlivet2.jpg

http://www.americancocktails.com/images/bottles/spirit_review_bottles/bottle-glenfiddich.jpg

etc ...

[frieghtdog2000]

The Super VC10 G-ASGD carried the name "RMA CANOPUS" and had a plate just inside the forward passenger door stating this although the name was not applied externally. RMA - Royal Mail Aircraft.

[Flightwatch]

I already gave you the Viscount 701 names in post #13.

The missing Vanguard names are:

G-APEA Vanguard
G-APEB Bellerephon
G-APEC Sirius
G-APED Defiance
G-APEE Euryalus
G-APEF Victory
G-APEH Audacious
G-APEN Valient

Ambassador and Dakota names also available if you want to go back that far.

[topoverhaul]

This thread is calling me to get on board an old hobby horse.
When G-BNWW – CITY OF MARSEILLES eventually arrived in Paris, the local engineer claimed that the spelling was wrong and painted over the final S.

However Marseilles is one of those French cities like Dunkirk which has a separate English spelling and thus Marseilles, is the correct spelling in English as opposed to French. If the intention had been to have native language spellings of these cities, we would have had "City of Roma" and City of Athina" or indeed we could have alternatively had "Ville de Marseille".
Needless to say my protestations at the time fell on ears totally free of pedantry.

[WHBM]

I can understand having a class theme to the names applied, but I do wonder what is the point of making a wholesale change of all of a type from one set of names to a completely different set. The Tristars seem to have had this happen twice.

[ahwalk01]

On the Virgin Atlantic side I remember Diana Rigg being named after a 747.

Trouble was with flying long haul to exotic places, you can pick up a few bugs.

Hearing 'Diana Rigg's got termites' over the phone in the office was a hoot...

[DaveReidUK]

On the Virgin Atlantic side I remember Diana Rigg being named after a 747.

Or possibly the other way round ... :O

[DaveReidUK]

I can understand having a class theme to the names applied, but I do wonder what is the point of making a wholesale change of all of a type from one set of names to a completely different set. The Tristars seem to have had this happen twice.

As the OP pointed out, the change from roses to bays coincided with the replacement of the Negus & Negus livery with the Landor scheme. Later, as with the 757s that also went to Caledonian, they became lochs.

[sudden twang]

A request was made to name the latest 787 after Barbara Jane Harrison for the 50 anniversary but BA don’t name planes anymore.

[DaveReidUK]

A request was made to name the latest 787 after Barbara Jane Harrison for the 50 anniversary but BA don’t name planes anymore.

I believe the campaign isn't in respect of the latest 787, but relates to one of the existing B788 fleet - the appropriately-registered G-ZBJH.

[WHBM]

It's always difficult commemorating accident victims on the current live operation, as it can be unnerving to certain passengers, however well meaning. The WW2 stairway accident at Bethnal Green, London, which is regularly portrayed as an Underground railway accident, but took place years before the stairway in question was incorporated into a railway station, has caused all sorts of differences between those remembering the incident and the current rail operators.

None of us would be unnerved here, and the aircraft is indeed appropriate, but the comments from the commercial team would be relevant as well. Can the George Cross, now in possession of BA's museum, be mounted in the flight deck ?

[Warmtoast]

This plaque was given to me by a former BA Engineer, but I sold it for a couple of quid on eBay.


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/Boeing747-436G-BNLPPlaque_824x960.jpg

[Chris Scott]

I already gave you the Viscount 701 names in post #13.
The missing Vanguard names are:
[...]
Ambassador and Dakota names also available if you want to go back that far.

Did I see the name "Christopher Marlowe" on a BEA Ambassador ("Elizabethan") I flew in in 1959? Perhaps I just answered my own question...

[DaveReidUK]

Did I see the name "Christopher Marlowe" on a BEA Ambassador ("Elizabethan") I flew in in 1959? Perhaps I just answered my own question...

Unlikely to have been 1959, according to this:

Duxford Aviation Society - Airspeed Ambassador 2 G-ALZO (http://das.org.uk/airspeed-ambassador-2-g-alzo/)

which suggests that BEA only flew RMA Christopher Marlowe until June 1958.

[WHBM]

Last ever BEA Ambassador flight was 30 June 1958, G-AMAF, Cologne to Heathrow. many were then dumped at Cambridge for quite some time, until gradually sold off

[rog747]

G-BFCE – UNKNOWN - is Gay Gordons Rose



The Vanguards had the best names in BEA


British Eagle had some nice names - all the Superjet 1-11's started with 'S'
Spur Stalwart Serene Superb Supreme Salute Swift


and I flew on Cale 707 Flagship Bonnie Scotland G-AVKA coming home from Palma summer 1969

[Chris Scott]

Hi Dave and WHBM,
You're absolutely right. It was Summer 1957, LHR/CIA - possibly August. There was a heatwave in Italy at the time.

EDIT
In fact it was July 1957...
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h335/Chris_Scott_46/Aviation%20-%20Miscellaneous/P1130007%20-%20Copy_zpshfluzcdt.jpg
Does the reference to Malta local time imply that the service would be continuing from Ciampino to Luqa, WHBM?

[Danny G]

Just reading some of the old BA names brings back memories. Why did they not name any of the Trident fleet?

[WHBM]

Does the reference to Malta local time imply that the service would be continuing from Ciampino to Luqa, WHBM?
If you are on BE 140 departing Heathrow 0925, it does.

Following year it was a Viscount, a whole hour faster from London to Rome.

[DaveReidUK]

Why did they not name any of the Trident fleet?

All of the Trident Ones, and many of the Twos, were delivered in the Red Square livery, and the remainder in the "Speedjack" scheme, neither of which had provision for aircraft names. By the time the Negus livery came along that did, it was probably considered too late to dream up a fleet's worth of names.

[wiggy]

Thanks for the image of the Flight Bulletin Chris..loved the "please pass on quickly" note......but most of all the fact that the Steward and Stewardess were titled Mr Mason and Miss Ford .

These days it's a case it's more likely to be Gavin and Stacey.....

[Alan Baker]

Why did they not name any of the Trident fleet?

Because BEA abandoned aircraft names in 1960 with the advent of the new "red square" livery. All aircraft were de-named as they were repainted and the Vanguards never carried the names which had been allocated, while the Comets were never allocated names.

[Tagron]

All the initial TriStar deliveries were short haul aircraft, and am fairly sure that as suggested above they did not carry individual names at first. But later in the 1970s with arrival of the -500s approaching, the company decided to name the entire fleet. Management hit on the idea of a staff competition for class and individual aircraft names with a prize for the best entry, probably in the form of free tickets.

Unfortunately for BA a group of staff, maybe T1 terminal staff, produced a spoof entry. Their proposal was the "British Airways Regrets" class, with individual names such as Technical Delay., Operational Reasons, Leased aircraft, Type Substitution, Unsuitable Weather (etc). None of this would have mattered too much, except the joke came to the attention of the LHR freebie newspaper Skyport which ,lacking the editorial control which BA imposed on its own newspaper, published the story on its front page much to everyone's amusement. Except presumably that of BA management, because the joke was close to the bone.

The winning entry was the English Roses class, and these names adorned the L1011 fleet until the change to the Landor livery.

[ZOOKER]

B757-236 G-CPET was the a/c that flew the last passenger service, on Sat Oct 30th 2010. The aircraft had been painted in the 'British' version on the Negus colour-scheme and carried the name 'Stokesay Castle. I've attached a picture, not my own, which I found via 'Google Images'. I worked the a/c at Scottish Centre, from Dean Cross down to Honiley. It had descended to FL90, and as we weren't busy we allowed it to navigate visually on a 'sight-seeing tour'. I'm fairly certain the crew said they were trying to overfly the castle, which is near Ludlow, but the edge of controlled airspace prevented them from doing so. I remember transmitting "auf wiedersehen pet" as we transferred it to London Control.
Also, B747-136 was simply 'John Donne'......Without the 'The'.

Great piece of work putting all this together.

[El Bunto]

and the Vanguards never carried the names which had been allocated

G-APEA was delivered in the Keyline livery with RMA Vanguard, its allocated name, on the nose:

http://aflyinghistory.com/photos/vickers/vanguard/g-apea/10842-london-airport-1963.jpg

while the Comets were never allocated names.

G-APMA Edmund Halley
G-APMB Walter Gale
G-APMC Andrew Crommelin
G-APMD William Denning
G-APME John Tebbutt
G-APMF William Finley

Discoverers of astronomical comets :)

[Chris Scott]

Thanks for the image of the Flight Bulletin Chris..loved the "please pass on quickly" note......but most of all the fact that the Steward and Stewardess were titled Mr Mason and Miss Ford .
These days it's a case it's more likely to be Gavin and Stacey.....
Yes, and the prime minister was referred to in the media as... "The Prime Minister."
BTW, I seem to remember asking the rear-seat pax if I could have the bulletin as a souvenir. :O

Quote from WHBM:
"If you are on BE 140 departing Heathrow 0925..."

Can't confirm that but if so the flight would have been running at least half an hour late?
According to Wiki, the Elizabethans had been replaced by Viscounts on the Rome route in 1954... :rolleyes:

[WHBM]

Quote from WHBM:
"If you are on BE 140 departing Heathrow 0925..."

Can't confirm that but if so the flight would have been running at least half an hour late?
According to Wiki, the Elizabethans had been replaced by Viscounts on the Rome route in 1954...
So much for Wiki-wotsit's simplistic view of the world. There were some Ambassadors still scheduled on the route in early 1958 (here), though I'm sure some of the Viscount's substitutions had taken place some years earlier. They mainly seem to have been kept on the lengthy Malta run to position them out to run the Malta Airlines local routes that BEA operated under contract.

http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/be58/be58-10.jpg

[DaveReidUK]

G-APMA Edmund Halley
G-APMB Walter Gale
G-APMC Andrew Crommelin
G-APMD William Denning
G-APME John Tebbutt
G-APMF William Finley

Discoverers of astronomical comets :)

Add

G-APMG John Grigg
G-ARCO John Hind
G-ARCP William Brooks

I can't find any names for the final five aircraft delivered in 1961.

[flash8]

Can never forget seeing G-BDXE (747-236B) in maintenance at LHR (1980'ish school visit) with some wag putting two "i"'s in between the registration DXE on the tail, giving "DIXIE", must have been its unofficial name!

[Heathrow Harry]

Woodley's "history of BEA" has no names associated with the last five.........