G-APEN_1972ca_MUC_1600_AMC

 

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

 

 

München-Riem

ca. September 1972

 

G-APEN

Vickers 953 Vanguard

717

British European Airways (BEA)

 

G-APEN is coming in to land on Riem’s runway 07. An Inex-Adria DC-9 is waiting to line up in the background. G-APEN had been noted at Riem several times in the 1960s (5 August 1966, 30 September 1966, 1 Februar 1969) and also on 5 September 1971.

 

Delivered to BEA in November 1961, transferred to British Airways in April 1974, sold to Merpati Nusantara as PK-MVE in 1975, wfu in January 1982 at JKT, scrapped. (Sources: planelogger.com, lfmpnews)

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-APEN/826159

 

G-APEN with BEA at LHR ca. 1966 (Red Square livery):

www.flickr.com/photos/geoffsimages/53412646143

 

Cabin view of G-APEN with BEA in March 1968:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/5/0/2165057.jpg

 

G-APEN with BEA at LHR in April 1970 (Red Square livery):

www.flickr.com/photos/chrisengland/25104218367

 

G-APEN with Merpati Nusantara at LHR in 1975:

www.airhistory.net/photo/646606/G-APEN

 

This airframe as PK-MVE with Merpati Nusantara ca. 1975:

www.flickr.com/photos/skypicsintl/6458796483

 

PK-MVE with Merpati Nusantara at JKT in March 1981 (later colours):

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1080756

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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