G-AXBB_1969_MUC_1600_AMC

 

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

 

 

München-Riem

1969

 

G-AXBB

BAC 111-409AY One-Eleven

162

Germanair (leased for a few months only in 1969)

 

G-AXBB seen from Riem’s viewing terrace in front of the terminal building. Reported at Riem on 17 August 1969, 11 September 1969 and 9 October 1969, would later visit several times as G-AXBB with BIA in 1978 and 1979.

 

Note the German flag painted next to the British registration, with the red and gold stripes reversed!

 

Information from flickr - thanks to Reinhard Zinabold (slightly adapted):

c/n 162 - built in 1969 for LACSA - leased to Quebecair as G-AXBB in 1969, to Tarom as YR-BCP and to Germanair as G-AXBB - operated by Gulf Air between 1974 and 1978 - sold to British Island Airways as G-AXBB - final operator was Okada Air (Nigeria) from 1989 - stored and later scrapped at Benin City, still seen in May 2010.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/5N-AYR/752805

 

This airframe as YR-BCP with Tarom at LBG in July 1969:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/9/6/0075699.jpg

 

This airframe as TI-1055C with LACSA at PTY in Nov. 1971:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/4/5/9/1952954.jpg

 

This airframe as A4O-BB with Gulf Air at EMA in 1978:

www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/16309056251

 

A4O-BB stored at EMA, Gulf Air titles removed:

www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/46198521625

 

G-AXBB with BIA at SZG in December 1978 (all white):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/4/0/2320045.jpg

 

G-AXBB with Air UK at LGW in July 1981:

www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/20464072136

 

This airframe as with Okada Air stored at BNI in April 2009:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/6/3/1528369.jpg

 

 

Scan from slide (unknown brand).

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