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Hi john
Was 'JV ever owned by British Midland?I remember flying to Sandown IOW from East Mids in 1967 on G-ANTD and returning from Eastleigh but only as far as Birmingham due to tech probs on what I think was 'JV.The reason for not retuning from Sandown was bad weather and heavy rain and I think that Sandown was only grass.This was a scheduled service.ATB EricT.
Was 'JV ever owned by British Midland?I remember flying to Sandown IOW from East Mids in 1967 on G-ANTD and returning from Eastleigh but only as far as Birmingham due to tech probs on what I think was 'JV.The reason for not retuning from Sandown was bad weather and heavy rain and I think that Sandown was only grass.This was a scheduled service.ATB EricT.
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Hi Eric,
Yes 'JV was owned by BMA at one time. Here is a pic of it in cargo guise and I'm guessing but I would think it probably flew pax before that.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0907604/L/
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Yes 'JV was owned by BMA at one time. Here is a pic of it in cargo guise and I'm guessing but I would think it probably flew pax before that.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0907604/L/
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Sounds about right Ian
By 1967 BMA only had one Dak left presumably G-ANTD as that was painted into the BM livery.
With the loss of the Canadair Four fleet..... for the summer at least one stored Dak was brought back into pax service for that year...not mention but presumably G-AGJV and seems to have been in freight service the following year.
Because it had been withdrawn it was not, like 'NTD painted in the BM livery but as the photo shows had the later BMA (post BM) logo on the pre BM livery.......a bit of a mix.
Difficult to prove anything but it fits
It is worth mentioning I have a pic somewhere I took of a Channel Dak that had bee brought back into service when they damaged two HS.748 in one day.
Yet I don't see this recorded as such. G-AMDB I think it was. I went up the airport and was shocked to see it there as we had not had one for a couple of years.
So no doubt BM did the same but things were not recorded by the public as they are now.
I doubt if they said much....bringing back old retired Daks to replace crashed more modern types is not something they would brag about.
So I would think more slipped in on the secondary routes and hope no one noticed :-$
Garry
I answered this post hours ago but for some reason the post has vanished....twice this week
Sounds about right Ian
By 1967 BMA only had one Dak left presumably G-ANTD as that was painted into the BM livery.
With the loss of the Canadair Four fleet..... for the summer at least one stored Dak was brought back into pax service for that year...not mention but presumably G-AGJV and seems to have been in freight service the following year.
Because it had been withdrawn it was not, like 'NTD painted in the BM livery but as the photo shows had the later BMA (post BM) logo on the pre BM livery.......a bit of a mix.
Difficult to prove anything but it fits
It is worth mentioning I have a pic somewhere I took of a Channel Dak that had bee brought back into service when they damaged two HS.748 in one day.
Yet I don't see this recorded as such. G-AMDB I think it was. I went up the airport and was shocked to see it there as we had not had one for a couple of years.
So no doubt BM did the same but things were not recorded by the public as they are now.
I doubt if they said much....bringing back old retired Daks to replace crashed more modern types is not something they would brag about.
So I would think more slipped in on the secondary routes and hope no one noticed :-$
Garry
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Hi John & Garry.
Thanks for that.I do seem to recall that ANTD was in BMA livery but AGJV was unmarked other than white on top.BTW many years later while doing (telecomms) work for BMI I recall a BMI engineer saying that 'TD was often referred to as Tear Drop !.ATB EricT
Thanks for that.I do seem to recall that ANTD was in BMA livery but AGJV was unmarked other than white on top.BTW many years later while doing (telecomms) work for BMI I recall a BMI engineer saying that 'TD was often referred to as Tear Drop !.ATB EricT
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