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HPR7_Dart-Herald_G-BDFE_Sen_02Jul77(1)_(BAF-VIP)_RJG
British Air Ferries Dart-Herald 206 G-BDFE spent nearly a decade based at Southend from the mid-70s and here it is parked by the BAF hangar wearing 'BAF VIP' titling on 02Jul77.
Starting life as CF-EPC, the aircraft was delivered to Eastern Provincial Airways on 29Mar63. It was leased from Feb-May64 to Bahamas Airways as VP-BCG and sold to BAF in Jun75. It was leased to TAT for most of Apr79 and to Air Algérie from late Apr-Jul80 and again Feb-Apr81. It was re-registered to Keegan Management & Leasing in Sep82 and leased to Janus Airways in May83, later to Star Offshore Services and to Tunisavia sometime in later 1983 through to Jan84 before sale to MMM Aero Services as 9Q-CAA in Feb84. It was withdrawn from use in Apr86 at Ndjili, Kinshasa, and scrapped in Mar87.
Photo: Richard John Goring (Tranportraits)
HPR7_Dart-Herald_G-BDFE_Sen_02Jul77(1)_(BAF-VIP)_RJG
British Air Ferries Dart-Herald 206 G-BDFE spent nearly a decade based at Southend from the mid-70s and here it is parked by the BAF hangar wearing 'BAF VIP' titling on 02Jul77.
Starting life as CF-EPC, the aircraft was delivered to Eastern Provincial Airways on 29Mar63. It was leased from Feb-May64 to Bahamas Airways as VP-BCG and sold to BAF in Jun75. It was leased to TAT for most of Apr79 and to Air Algérie from late Apr-Jul80 and again Feb-Apr81. It was re-registered to Keegan Management & Leasing in Sep82 and leased to Janus Airways in May83, later to Star Offshore Services and to Tunisavia sometime in later 1983 through to Jan84 before sale to MMM Aero Services as 9Q-CAA in Feb84. It was withdrawn from use in Apr86 at Ndjili, Kinshasa, and scrapped in Mar87.
Photo: Richard John Goring (Tranportraits)