What was the first airliner you flew in?

[76fan]

Eagle Airways Britannia Paya Lebar (Singapore) to Gatwick December 1966, RN leave UK. Twenty-six hours I think. Returned on a BOAC Boeing 707 from Heathrow, what luxury.

[Dave Gittins]

SAM DC-6 Gatwick to Venice for a holiday in Rimini .... about 1967 ish.

[netstruggler]

1972-ish Gatwick to Majorca in a Caravelle. I sat in the back with an engine instead of a window and was served Rum Baba for desert.

[Level bust]

Channel Airways Viscount from Southend to Rotterdam.

[PAXboy]

VC-10 LHR-CIA-NBO-JNB in December 1965. I was nine.
My spreadsheet log book says about 65 types altogether, of course the 737 appears multiple times.

However, only one entry for G-BOAC LHR-JFK.

[Mr Mac]

September 14th 1960 for me I am told, 64 years ago on Saturday

I am told it was a BEA Vickers Viscount from Zurich to London and I was 6 days old at the time, and no, I did not get the registration number.

Cheers
Mr Mac

[wub]

This one, Turnhouse to Renfrew: 13/-

[hayessteph]

About 1955 my parents and I went to London Airport (now London Heathrow) to look at the planes from the public viewing gallery. Along with other members of the public, we got into a bi-plane which took off, and did a circuit, before coming back in to land. Must have taken about 15 minutes in all. I remember the flight cost 11 shillings per person.

[Trinity 09L]

BEA air tours Comet from LGW to Majorca.

[tdracer]

DC-3 from Omaha to Fargo, ND - probably 1966 or there abouts. What I mainly remember is that it was a 'milk run' and we stopped numerous times, with passengers getting on and off. Pretty sure that was my first ever time on an airplane. No idea who the operator was.
First jetliner was a DC-8 60 series charter in 1972 - Denver to Switzerland (probably Geneva), with a couple stops (IIRC, Kansas City and Bangor, Maine). Overseas National Airlines - full of 250 teenagers and a few chaperones.

[pppdrive]

First Flight

Air Ferry DC4 Manston-Basle 1967, BKS Britannia London-Palma 1967, Trans Union DC6 Manston-Basle 1967, Channel Airways Viscount Basle-Southend 1967, Channel Airways BAC 1-11 Perpignan-Southend 1967. All Charter Holiday Flights. I was very 'lucky' as all flights were free as I worked for a Tour Operator then, began working for various Airlines in 1968 and continued traveling until retirement when I had to start paying for tickets and still do to the present time.

[justapax]

Originally Posted by Mr Mac

September 14th 1960 for me I am told, 64 years ago on Saturday

I am told it was a BEA Vickers Viscount from Zurich to London and I was 6 days old at the time, and no, I did not get the registration number.

Cheers
Mr Mac

I was 3 when I flew (in a Connie), but many years later my youngest wasn't much older that you were when he first flew, YVR-LHR. I don't think anyone on board enjoyed that flight, least of all him. Kids are like motorbikes, the smaller they are the more noise they make .

[luganao]

Viscount 806 G-APEX BHX-LHR 20 August 1960

[malcolm380]

British Caledonian BAC 1-11 Gatwick - Rome Ciampino, Summer 1971, School trip to Rome.

[Krystal n chips]

An Argosy, out of Benson, air experience flight for apprentices, memorable for a disgruntled Loadie and the whole flight being in cloud !..followed by a VC10 a few months later...memorable again for a baby Loadie, have diligently briefed us about being air sick, giving a practical demo....collective "sympathetic " aaaaaw from the apprenti pax.

First pure civilian type was a 1-11.

[Mr Mac]

Originally Posted by Justapax1

I was 3 when I flew (in a Connie), but many years later my youngest wasn't much older that you were when he first flew, YVR-LHR. I don't think anyone on board enjoyed that flight, least of all him. Kids are like motorbikes, the smaller they are the more noise they make .

Justapax1
Apparently I was asleep and made no noise the whole trip so fellow passengers were spared the noise that I too have experienced over the years.

As I grew older I used to wonder off around the cabin if my parents weren’t watching and used to be picked up and carried back or walked back as I got older.
On one flight with BOAC apparently a very attractive stewardess stopped me entering into first class during the meal service, and I wasn’t happy so struggled a little with her. I was about 3 or 4 and another gentleman sat opposite my Mum said that I might not struggle so hard in 16 years 🙂

Cheers
Mr Mac

[Planemike]

05th November 1952 AIRWORK Vickers Viking G-AIXR... Blackbushe to Nairobi, two and a half days, night stops in Malta and Khartoum. I was seven and a half so remember quite a lot about the whole trip. Thirty one years later London to Nairobi direct in about nine hours British Airways Boeing 747.
The flight was one of the things that sparked my interest in aviation. The others being a trip to Farnborough 52 and to an Open Day at RAF Calshot : "" wall to wall Sunderlands "" !! 😉😉👍👍

[GGR155]

Like others on here, Argosy from RAF Waddington Air Experience on joining RAF 1970. Britannia, C130, VC10, first civvy was BEA 1-11 Belfast-Manchester for long weekend pass 1973. Special ticket for HM forces £7 return.

[SOPS]

Age of 10 . Ansett DC 9, First class. Family was been transferred from Sydney to Perth ( a country town in those days), by my Dads employer, BHP. (He worked for BHP from the age of 16 until he retired). At Adelaide, we transferred to a 727 to Perth. That was the day I knew I wanted to be a pilot.

[Kiltrash]

About aged 8 so be 1961 mums boyfriend was a pilot, possibly only a lowly 2nd pilot with BEA and got to fly often from Turnhouse to LAP after Primary school on Fridays and back on the Sunday. Not sure of the type but I assume Vanguard .. Ditched him after a term or two but definitely caught the flying bug then..then regular BEA Tridents and Bcal 1-11
Most unusual...not sure how this came about ...but flew in a BN2a on delivery from Bembridge to somewhere in France and back in a PA23 this was courtesy of a friend of a friend at Fairoakes possibly late '60's