British 90s "leisure airlines"

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 04 Jul 2006, 00:42

One little quibble.... the BA one shouldnt have winglets

... although I think one of their franchisees (GB Airways?) has some A320-200s so could let you off

amo · Post by **amo** » 04 Jul 2006, 13:21

Toby,
Had a look at Airliner.net - all the newer BA Union A320's are 200's and have winglets although I have noticed that they now paint them slightly differently

The official england team A320 has winglets and some early BA Landor's were 200's.
That is why I usually do not put on registration numbers as they can cause problems.
On the BA Union forgot to add One World logo

Have changed the Caledonian tail from BCAL to Caledonian as advised by VC10.
Cheers
amo

Post by **Garry Russell** » 04 Jul 2006, 14:00

Hi amo

The earliest BA 320 were Srs 100 (111)

These were ordered by BCAL and a 320 actually flew in F-W marks with BCAL livery one side only

Garry

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 04 Jul 2006, 14:06

Garry Russell wrote:a 320 actually flew in F-W marks with BCAL livery one side only

Now that I did not know!

The G-BUS? fleet must be some of (main) BA's oldest aircraft now?

Post by **Garry Russell** » 04 Jul 2006, 14:23

Tobt

The 320's must be about the oldest.

The first batch were acquired from the take over and BA never seem to publicised the fact they had them......almost tried to ignore it.

Wedded so much to 737 at the time

They said more than once they didn't want them

BCAL as an early customer and the one painted I was either their first (G-BRSA/G-BUSB) or an actual prototype.

It was flown for publicity reasons and I think it went to Gatwick.

I can't rmember off hand what was on the other side.

It was brief..I only ever saw one pic then the takeover and the BCAL fleet went to BA off the line without even taking up the BCAL registrations.

Garry

Post by **Garry Russell** » 04 Jul 2006, 14:31

Just found this

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/20 ... +A320.html

Don't know if that's the one or if another got as far as test flying before repaint

Garry

**EDIT** also this F-WWDA (which makes it the second prototype)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRITISH-CALEDONIA ... dZViewItem

Garry

amo · Post by **amo** » 04 Jul 2006, 20:24

Great find Garry,
The 1st pic has winglets the 2nd hasn't :think:
Will try and paint it using these pics.
According to Airlife Airliners 9 this was the order:
No6 - A320-111 FF 9/11/87 F-WWDD (G-BRSA) - G-BUSB
No8 - A320-111 FF 7/12/87 F-WWDE (G-BRSB) - G-BUSC
No11 - A320-111 FF 5/01/88 F-WWDF - G-BUSD
No17 - A320-111 FF 1/10/88 F-WWDG - G-BUSE
No18 - A320-111 FF 20/03/89 F-WWDH - G-BUSF
No39 - A320-211 FF 14/03/89 F-WWDM - G-BUSG
No42 - A320-211 FF 03/04/89 F-WWDT - G-BUSH
No103 - A320-211 FF 06/02/90 F-WWDB - G-BUSI
No109 - A320-211 FF 13/06/90 F-WWIC - G-BUSJ
No120 - A320-211 FF 22/08/90 F-WWIN - G-BUSK

Caledonian :
No354 - A320-231 FF 20/07/92 F-WWDZ - G-BVYA
No357 - A320-231 FF 18/08/92 F-WWBH - F-WQAZ- G-BVYB

Looks like the 1st 2 For BCAL would be G-BRSA/B then BA gave them a G-BUS as it was the 1st Airbus Product they bought instead of Boeing Always! :shock:
Cheers
amo

Post by **Garry Russell** » 04 Jul 2006, 20:31

Hi amo

The first pic does not have winglets

I know the order of build it was that I couldn't remember if it was was BCAL aircraft or a prototype that flew in the livery

It was it seems the second prototype.

I think that was the only aircraft to fly in that livery and only partly

Also a lot of imformation says that BA/(BCAL) and Air France were the only operators of the 100 forgetting the Air Inter ones.

I think it was only the right hand side painted

I also knew why they were re registered, the original G-BR registrations (at that time out of sequence) were to do with BCAL'S code BR

Garry

amo · Post by **amo** » 04 Jul 2006, 20:35

Sorry,
Garry got the pics mixed up! :redface:
cheers
amo

Post by **Garry Russell** » 04 Jul 2006, 20:39

That aircraft was modified. Looks like it was done still with the BCAL livery

Garry