Boeing 757
 

Is there anyone out can remind me when the 757 entered service with BA.
And while I am down memory lane perhaps someone remembers a Tristar in BEA colours, not for long because of the merger with BOAC.

Boeing 757
 

A simple google search says Feb 9th 1993 on shuttle services between London and Belfast?

1983 surely for the 757 ? A simple search told me that much :rolleyes:

Much earlier I think - I flew them for a couple of years in the mid 80's - a lovely aircraft to fly!

Boeing 757
 

I don't think you flew them in the 80's :-)

If I remember correctly Monarch got theirs in 84 and BA about six months earlier.

The first two arrived in January 1983.

First BA ones built from 82 so in service in 83 sounds about right. All of the first batch still going strong with DHK and EAT with the DHK ones carrying the same registrations now as when they entered service all those years ago.

Flightmech

Why do you say that? The 757 entered service with BA in 1983.

Definitely January 1983. Monarch started receiving theirs a month or two later.

G-BIK_ frames… We used to go past them on the crew bus all the time at BRU whilst they were being loaded/resting on the cargo ramp.

Yes and no.

Lockheed painted up an Eastern Airlines TriStar with the BEA logo and "Speedjack" for the 1972 Farnborough show, but the aircraft ordered by BEA were delivered in BA colours.

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1034404M.jpg

I think I'd agree it was more like 1983.
We were doing major maintenance on them in 1990.

Update...

A quick check of GINFO shows G-BIKA first registered to BA on 28/03/83.

Monarch Airlines 757s
 

Monarch introduced the 757 to service in early April 1983. The first three aircraft: G-MONB/C/D were delivered with 535C engines and were retrofitted by Monarch Airlines Engineering Ltd. with 535E4 engines when they became available.

G-BIKA was the 3rd aircraft delivered.

G-BIKB first regd 25/01/83
G-BIKC first regd 31/01/83

I said it because I was wrong. About 10 years wrong....ooops

The TriStar at the 72 Farnborough had the BEA logos applied over here (possibly just temporary vinyl decals?)...here arriving at Heathrow in basic Eastern stripes
Photos: Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

I think I only flew in a 757 once from London to Rome. I don't normally remember registrations, but this one was the unforgettable G-BIKE.

India Four Two, you misread that one G-BIKE is a Piper Arrow.

Originally owned by a company that installs velodrome tracks (founded by a former Australian cycling champion), hence the registration.