Dream liner
Still wearing her basic Holidair colours Douglas DC-8 Series 52 VR-BIA seen parked at Lasham Airfield on the 18th of November 1996
According to web sources she started life in 1963 with Iberia as EC-ATP, moving on to Aviaco 10 years later
Between 1980 and 1987 she served as a VIP transport with the Spanish Air Force as T.15-2 before being sold to 'Holiday Airways' and registered as N7034B
The year after she moved to Holidair as C-FHAB where in 1989 she was 'acquired' by the Royal Bank of Canada
1n 1993 she was leased back from the Bank by Advance Air Charters and in 1995 was re-registered as VR-BIA for the proposed Imperial Airways
That operator came to nothing and Jetstar Ltd acquired her but after languishing at Lasham, a year after I took this photo she was scrapped
Scanned Kodachrome 64 Transparency
Dream liner
Still wearing her basic Holidair colours Douglas DC-8 Series 52 VR-BIA seen parked at Lasham Airfield on the 18th of November 1996
According to web sources she started life in 1963 with Iberia as EC-ATP, moving on to Aviaco 10 years later
Between 1980 and 1987 she served as a VIP transport with the Spanish Air Force as T.15-2 before being sold to 'Holiday Airways' and registered as N7034B
The year after she moved to Holidair as C-FHAB where in 1989 she was 'acquired' by the Royal Bank of Canada
1n 1993 she was leased back from the Bank by Advance Air Charters and in 1995 was re-registered as VR-BIA for the proposed Imperial Airways
That operator came to nothing and Jetstar Ltd acquired her but after languishing at Lasham, a year after I took this photo she was scrapped
Scanned Kodachrome 64 Transparency