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rog747
24th Mar 2023, 06:43
Can you ID this airfield please ?
Aviateca 1-11 somewhere in central America....early/mid 1970's.
Thanks.
(Aviateca had leased a Court Line 1-11 in 1970/71 in yellow pending delivery of their own new one from BAC later in 1971,
and it seems they liked the livery so much and adopted it for the aircraft)
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/960x642/aviateca_1_11_cf306d3c7431a556eab6f10544cabdd2b1c9675d.jpg
jolihokistix
24th Mar 2023, 06:52
Arenal volcano?
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India Four Two
24th Mar 2023, 07:31
La Aurora International Guatemala Airport (IATA: GUA, ICAO: MGGT)
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/974x499/screenshot_2023_03_24_at_01_26_44_71f308933989f189fd82e320ac d08d4d02c59b59.png
This is Agua Volcano, 14 nm southwest.
https://www.guatemala-airport.com
OUAQUKGF Ops
24th Mar 2023, 10:03
Court Line BAC 1-11 518FG G-AXMK - leased to Aviateca Guatemala as TG-ARA from 23-11-1970 until 06-04-1971. My flat-mate was one of the Cabin Crew. It made a very pleasant change for her - rather than spending the winter in Luton. (Our flat was over a Launderette). We looked forward to receiving her letters !
India Four Two
25th Mar 2023, 04:44
We looked forward to receiving her letters !
Those were the days! When people communicated by writing letters!
OUAQUKGF Ops
25th Mar 2023, 07:00
Yes, Sandy would write brilliant letters to us (in the winter gloom of Luton) from Guatemala every week. I kept those letters for many years but sadly they and a lot of other stuff e.g. Nick's letters from Laker Berlin were thinned out when we moved house.......
Court Line BAC 1-11 518FG G-AXMK - leased to Aviateca Guatemala as TG-ARA from 23-11-1970 until 06-04-1971.
Yes, went on to Dan-Air after Court went under in 1974; it was actually leased out again to Germanair when that happened, and was then with Dan until the end of their One-Eleven ops in 1991. BAF at Southend bought the airframe for spares. I believe the seatback catering fit carried on with Dan-Air, at least for a while, after they bought it.
Several of the various Central American banana republics' national airlines took to the One-Eleven as their first jets, in penny numbers, some of them just one, and quite often passed them around amongst themselves; or had dual titles on the aircraft. The BAC North American sales/support office, which had considerable success there with the early standard One-Eleven, moved from New York to Miami, which all this fleet passed through most days, and helped look after them. Unlike the standard aircraft, the One-Eleven 500 was never offered to the FAA for certification in the US.