5Y-AYR_1976-02-27_MUC_1600_AM

 

Photo taken by Andreas Müller, scan kindly provided by Michael Bernhard for inclusion on this page..

 

 

München-Riem

1976-02-27 (27 February 1976)

 

5Y-AYR

Bristol 175 Britannia 307F

12920

African Safari Airlines

 

This Britannia had visited Riem in the 1960s as G-ANCD with British United Airways (on 21 September 1966) and Lloyd International (6 March 1969 on an El Al flight, 15 July 1970).

 

Information from various web sources:

 

This was one of five Britannias ordered by Northeast Airlines but not taken up, and the only one painted in Northeast's colour scheme:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1191747

 

It served as Bristol‘s demonstrator Series 300 and was painted in full Cubana colours for that purpose:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1326031

 

After a short lease to El-Al as 4X-AGE ...

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/4X-AGE_J_M_G_...

 

... it was sold to Air Charter Ltd in 1958:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1057675

 

During the 1960s, G-ANCD was operated by British United Airways:

www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/7330276776/in/photolist-...

 

Later BUA colour scheme:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/6/9/0/1113096.jpg?...

 

It went on to Lloyd International:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/5/3/0216357.jpg?...

 

IAS Cargo Airlines:

www.airhistory.net/photo/380465/G-ANCD

 

African Safari:

www.flickr.com/photos/propfreak/8192059781/in/photolist-2...

 

And finally All Cargo Airlines:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/6/1/9/2250916.jpg?...

 

Scrapped at Bournemouth - Hurn (BOH / EGHH), UK - England in 1982:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1002222

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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