G-AWWX BAC One-Eleven 509 Caledonian Airways LGW 30APR69
<p>When I joined the original Caledonian Airways in Feb-69, they just had Bristol Britannia's and a couple of Boeing 707-320C's. This was their first (of four) One-Eleven's, just delivered to London-Gatwick (LGW).
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G-AWWX was delivered new to Caledonian Airways at the end of Mar-69. In Nov-70 Caledonian Airways 'merged' with British United Airways (a minnow swallowing a whale!) to form Caledonian//BUA. It was renamed British Caledonian (B.Cal) in Sep-71. The aircraft was sold to Dan-Air London in Oct-75. They operated it for another 17 years until it was sold to International Lease Finance Corporation in Nov-92 and stored at Southend, UK. It was leased to British World Airlines in Apr-93. They had planned to re-register it G-OBWG but it never happened and it was returned to ILFC in Apr-95 and stored. Now 26 years old, it was sold to Aircraft Financing and Trading the same month and then sold to 'Oriental Airlines' in Aug-95. It was finally broken up in Sep-98.
Ken Fielding
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