G-APWA_1979-07_MUC_1600_WH

 

Photo taken by Wilhelm Hell, scan kndly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

July 1979

 

G-APWA "Mandy Keegan"

Handley Page HPR-7 Herald 100

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British Air Ferries (BAF)

 

G-APWA with BAF was noted at Riem on 17 May 1979, 9 August 1979 and 12 June 1980 (used as a tour plane for the rock group Styx. This slide was dated July 1979.

 

History of G-APWA (from saadonline.uk):

5/61-10/61 Jersey Airlines (leased)

1/62-4/62 B.E.A. (leased)

4/63-8/63 Autair (leased)

8/63-1/64 Malaysian Air Force (leased)

2/64-10/65 S.A.D.I.A. (leased as PP-ASV)

4/66-9/66 British Midland (leased as G-APWA)

11/66-8/76 S.A.D.I.A. as PP-SDM (name later changed to Transbrazil 6/72)

8/76-1/85 BAF

1/85-3/93 Panavia Air Cargo

3/93-present Berkshire Aviation Museum

Preserved at the Berkshire Avation Museum, Woodley, as of 2018

 

Registration details for this airframe:

rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=300426

 

G-APWA with BEA in September 1960 (postcard):

www.flickr.com/photos/antonov22/12524375564

 

G-APWA with Autair at BSL in August 1963:

www.bsl-mlh-planes.net/bigpicture/picture_id/6720

 

G-APWA with British Midland at LPL in May 1966:

www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/6890684851

 

This airframe as PP-SDM with S.A.D.I.A. at SDU in July 1969:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/3/5/1753539.jpg

 

This airframe as PP-SDM with Transbrasil at BSB in May 1975:

www.planepictures.net/a/5/30/1030238915.jpg

 

G-APWA derelict at SEN in December 1985:

www.flickr.com/photos/petermgarwood/23434855562

 

G-APWA preserved at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Woodley, in January 2019:

www.flickr.com/photos/29288836@N00/46818067431

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide (on Kodak Photo CD).

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