The BAC 1-11 Today
 

Having seen the very good thread about the L1011 Tristar, I thought I would do the same with the 1-11.
If anyone knows how many are still flying, where they are, and has any photos please let me know.
I for one would be very interested to find out how many are left!
Pete

A good starting point can be found here:

http://www.bac1-11jet.co.uk/

jethro
UK and Ireland Airline Fleet Listings
http://www.jethros.i12.com

Next time I get a day departure from UAAA, I'll let you know which one is on regular flights there... I am sure it's on the P4-xxx books

The operator out of Almaty in Kazakstan (above) is called Scat. You can find their One-Eleven schedule here (sorry, in Cyrillic only). I see it even gets to Moscow DME sometimes.

http://www.scat.kz/Shedule.asp

The three Northrop-Grumman research 111s are very active, in and out of Baltimore. Looking at flightaware.com the other US-registered ones have been up and about within the last couple of months too.

N161NG, N162W, N164W, N111JX, N999BW, N200EE.

There's at least 1 VIP version flying in Romania.

Boscombe Down I last read that there were 3 versions there??

Saw Onmani Forces aircraft flying at Muscat just under 2 yars ago- I expect they're still active

Glad to see there are some still out there :) Wish they put RR Tays on them in the 80's probably would have had loads more around today.
Anyone know if the Dee Howard Tay powered 1-11 is still out there?

Is the Kazakh one therefore the only one still operating passenger services ? Whose type certificate are the remaining aircraft still on ? BAE or the Romanians ? The one in Kazakhstan is one of the Romanian-built ones, the others listed here are British built.

Hi,

Yes, I can confim that the 1-11 is very much alive and well in the former CIS countries, I've seen the 1-11 in both Almaty (2) and Bishkek (1) operating passenger servies.





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Hi mrshubigbus

Directory: World Airlines which appeared in last weeks Flight International
Magazine shows that 241 were delivered and 39 are still in service.
So there is still a few left to see flying.

ILS32

These censuses (censi ?) are often out of date and/or inaccurate, and I'm afraid that Budgie News' is among the least reliable.
I'd prefer to believe this site which places the active number at 22 (others are stored/abandoned etc/):
http://www.bac1-11jet.co.uk/bac1-11j...nt%20fleet.htm

As I know ,in Romania the VIP BAC 1-11 is no longer flying , it was replaced with a Bae 146 I guess...Nevertheless in the '70 and '80 when BAC1-11's were one of the main Tarom fleet ,some of them were wet leased to Ryanair and Lauda while these launched their services....

The Romanian One Elevens did indeed get Ryanair off to a start. It was shortly after Perestroika and every Romanian pilot eligible jumped at the assignment in the West - apparently quite a few test pilots from the factory pulled rank and came over to Dublin. Their piloting skills with the One Eleven may have been top notch but their English wasn't and after some early confusion (or rather non-comprehension) they were prohibited from making PA to the pax except in an emergency, all normal announcements being by the cabin crew.

Pity poor ATC then ! Anybody remember them on frequency ?

The Kazakh one is reported to be a Rombac.

All the 3 Omani ones were active earlier this year and I believe at least 1 has been to Hurn recently for a check.

Suzeman

WHBM,
as I know, some of the pilots hired for ryanair were english speaking as well as they could flying a westbuilt plane(bac 1-11 was the 1st plane made in west wich has been bought by a former socialist country for its flag carrier tarom) and being able for an usual conversation....If they weren't capable to tell fairy tales to their pax in an oxford english....forget it!

:=
Sorry airman13,
But LOT operated Convair CV-240s and Viscounts and CSA flew Brittanias,so these were the first western built aircraft to be operated by former socialst countries national airlines and Aeroflot actually ordered Caravelles and all this was a long time before Tarom got 1-11s

Irishair2001, agree with you ,just adding 1st west built a/c with double flux engines ,2 flight deck crew ,flown by a socialist air carrier...:D