G-BEPS_1990-03-16_MUC_1200_RS

 

Photo taken by Robert Samweber, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

 

 

München-Riem

1990-03-16 (16 March 1990)

 

 

G-BEPS

Short SC-5 Belfast C1

1822 / 7

HeavyLift Cargo Airlines

 

Very rare visitor to Riem, taxiing to runway 07 for take-off. According to my notes, three of the ten Belfasts built visited Riem: SH1816 (G-BEPE) on 3 June 1980, SH1822 (G-BEPS) in August 1989 and December 1989, March/April 1990 and May 1992 as well as SH1819 (G-HLFT) in May 1990.

 

First flight as G-52-13 with Short Brothers Plc on 21 February 1966. In service as XR368 Theseus with 53 Squadron, RAF, at Brize Norton. In 1976, 53 Sqn was disbanded and Theseus was sold to Euro-Latin Commercial Ltd (PANAF) as G-BEPS. Re-registered to Transmeridian Air Cargo and then to HeavyLift in 1978. Broken up at Southend in October 2008 after plans to put it back in service alongside sister-ship RP-C8020 (ex G-HLFT) down-under fell through. (Sources: raf-butterworth-penang-association.org.uk, rzjets, airliners.net)

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-BEPS/693554

 

This airframe as XR368 with RAF at RAF Wildenrath (EDUW), Germany, in June 1969:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1593329

 

XR368 stored at Kemble in February 1977:

www.flickr.com/photos/158479744@N04/49980178852

 

This airframe as G-BEPS with PANAF at SEN in October 1978:

www.flickr.com/photos/85383837@N04/49565480988

 

G-BEPS / G-52-13 with Transmeridian Air Cargo at SEN in August 1979:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/8/9/0142989.jpg

 

G-BEPS with HeavyLift stored at SEN in October 2007:

www.flickr.com/photos/stonefaction/1814524619

 

G-BEPS being scrapped at SEN in October 2008:

www.flickr.com/photos/keith_burton/4350502065

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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