British Airways Castles

[TSR2]

Hi Guys,

I'm hoping someone can help. I'm trying to find a list of all of the Castles which adorned the BA fleets in the 80's. I'm particularly interested in The BA 757's when they wore the "British" titles. Does anyone know of such a list?

Cheers,

Ben

[TSR2]

Also, If I could find the date / time / Route of a flight from 1987, is there anywhere where I could find out which A/C flew the route?

[Nigel H-J]

Hope this helps Ben.

G-BIKF B757-236 22177 16 "Carrickfergus Castle"
G-BIKG B757-236 22178 23 "Stirling Castle"
G-BIKH B757-236 22179 24 "Richmond Castle"
G-BIKI B757-236 22180 25 "Tintagel Castle"
G-BIKJ B757-236 22181 29 "Conwy Castle"
G-BIKN B757-236 22186 50 "Bodiam Castle"
G-BIKO B757-236 22187 52 "Harlech Castle"
G-BIKR B757-236 22189 58 "Bamburgh Castle"
G-BIKS B757-236 22190 63 "Corfe Castle"
G-BIKT B757-236 23398 77 "Carisbrooke Castle"
G-BIKX B757-236 23493 90 "Warwick Castle"
G-BIKZ B757-236 23532 98 "Kenilworth Castle"
G-BMRA B757-236 23710 123 "Beaumaris Castle"
G-BMRD B757-236 24073 166 "Bothwell Castle"
G-BMRE B757-236 24074 168 "Killyleagh Castle"
G-BMRG B757-236 24102 179 "Caerphilly Castle"
G-BMRH B757-236 24266 210 "Norwich Castle"
G-BMRJ B757-236 24268 214 "Loch Tummel"
G-BPEA B757-236 24370 218 "Kidwelly Castle"
G-BPEC B757-236 24882 323 "Sir Simon Rattle"
G-BPEE B757-236 25060 364 "Robert Louis Stevenson"
G-BPEI B757-236 25806 601 "Winchester Castle"
G-BPEJ B757-236 25807 610 "Llangollen Castle" / "Castell Dinas Bran"
G-BPEK B757-236 25808 665 "Cardew Castle"


Kind regards
Nigel.

[TSR2]

Brilliant Nigel, thanks! I flew Feb '87 (trying to find the exact date) so that rules out some of the later ones, so pretty sure its a G-BI** one. EGLL - EGAA, delayed super shuttle flight. Kilo Victor rings a bell, but that might be from later on when my Dad was flying over with work. Hopefully there will be some records kept somewhere

[Garry Russell]

Also

G-BIKA B757-236 Dover Castler...1985 Windsor Castle
G-BIKB B757-236 Windsor Castle (later renamed)??
G-BIKC B757-236 Edinburgh Caste
G-BIKD B757-236 Caernafon Castle
G-BKRM B757-236 had a castle but I can't trace it
G-DRJC B757-2T7 Braemar Castle

[TobyV]

G-BKRM was also Braemar Castle
http://www.b757.info/cn/22176.htm

It went to Air Europe so I suspect they reused that name on G-DRJC (which was leased from Monarch?)

[TSR2]

Thanks for those Garry! And that's a great find Toby, thanks for that site. I've contacted my old school today to see if they can get me the dates of the trip as my mum had a tidy last year and binned a lot of our old school stuff.

Is it likely that there is somewhere that will have a record of the flight details after all this time, or am I pissing in the wind do you think?

[NigelC]

Is BKRM the one Air Europe nearly totalled in Funchal??

No, it was BLVH....

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/ ... 02083.html

[Garry Russell]

G-BKRM was a G-BIK* diverted to Air Europe in a deal where BA could take it back after a time

They didn't, but did lease it. because of that initial deal all the Air Europe ordered 757 were built to BA specs as -236.

There is confusion over the 'IK reg as it's given as G-BIKE, but that had been issued to a Cherokee years before. The not taken up 'IK reg, which I think was near the middle was re issued.

At one time BA were also using G-OOOB but I think that was in Air 2000 basic

Out of interest, G-BKRM entered service with BA in Full Air Europe with BA titles before getting full Landor. On return to Air Europe, it flew in full Landor with Air Europe titles.