Heathrow Domestic Pier
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Has a BA 737-200 on the long pier, and a Viscount close to the terminal. So 1980 or later for the Boeing, and 1983 or earlier for the Viscount.
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Has a BA 737-200 on the long pier, and a Viscount close to the terminal. So 1980 or later for the Boeing, and 1983 or earlier for the Viscount.
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IIRC, BA leased a couple of Transavia B732s in 1978-9, so probably one of those.
And I don't recall any of the Tridents still being in the BEA scheme as late as 1980.
Heathrow Domestic Pier
Gate 7, was this the gate in which the ill fated Trident (G-ARPI) departed for Brussels on June 18th 1972?
Bear in mind that T1 was not opened yet at the time of the Ambassador accident (official opening May 1969), and aircraft on stands there were being served by coaching from what was T2, so there was no concept of a Domestic or a European pier at the time. The terminal buildings destroyed in the accident were in the final stages of construction.
Someone who was there on the day of the accident states that the Tridents were on Bravo 4 and 6, which doesn't seem to accord with the airfield chart above but they were doubtless all renumbered when the terminal opened. There is a well-detailed thread about the accident here
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...hr-1968-a.html
The Transavia 737s (BA also leased 737s from Britannia at this time) were initially in Transavia livery, with just BA decals applied
Photos: Boeing 737-222 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net
it was only later in the lease, probably into 1979, that they were given a proper BA livery
Photos: Boeing 737-222 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net
Someone who was there on the day of the accident states that the Tridents were on Bravo 4 and 6, which doesn't seem to accord with the airfield chart above but they were doubtless all renumbered when the terminal opened. There is a well-detailed thread about the accident here
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...hr-1968-a.html
IIRC, BA leased a couple of Transavia B732s in 1978-9, so probably one of those.
Photos: Boeing 737-222 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net
it was only later in the lease, probably into 1979, that they were given a proper BA livery
Photos: Boeing 737-222 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net
Last edited by WHBM; 20th Sep 2012 at 10:24.
Bear in mind that T1 was not opened yet at the time of the Ambassador accident
