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The registration often denotes the aircraft type and maker. Some examples: HB-Axx two-engined aircraft from 5.7 to 15 tons, Aircraft over 15 tons due to shortage of Jxx. HB-Bxx balloons; HB-Cxx single-engined Cessnas under 5.7 tons; HB-Dxx and HB-Kxx other single-engined aircraft under 5.7 tons; HB-Fxx Swiss-produced aircraft like PC-6 and PC-12
Of the 6 that have been ordered, 4 will be leased and British Airways will fully acquire 2. [24] On 22 April 2013, IAG confirmed that it had signed a memorandum of understanding to order 18 Airbus A350-1000 XWB aircraft for British Airways, with an option for a further 18. The aircraft would replace some of the airline's fleet of Boeing 747 ...
Companies could allocate and re-use the identities as they liked, some ran in sequence from 1 and others used the aircraft manufacturers serial number as part of the marking, for example G-51-200 was a Britten Norman Islander with a manufacturers serial number of 200. [1] Allocations of codes from defunct companies have been reallocated.
British Airways Flight 9: G-BEBP Boeing 707-321C: 1977 Dan-Air Boeing 707 crash: G-BEDF Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress: Sally B: G-BEID Sikorsky S-61N: 1988 British International Helicopters Sikorsky S-61N crash: G-BEKF Hawker Siddeley HS 748: Dan-Air Flight 0034: G-BEON Sikorsky S-61N: 1983 British Airways Sikorsky S-61 crash: G-BFXI Hawker Hunter
An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies a civil aircraft, in similar fashion to a number plate on a vehicle. The letter Q has not been used since the issue of G-EBTQ in 1927 (although a few historic aircraft still maintain registrations with this letter), [2] and the CAA also disallows combinations that may be offensive. [3]
In most countries, unscheduled general aviation flights identify themselves using the call sign corresponding to the aircraft's registration number (also called N-number in the U.S., or tail number). In this case, the call sign is spoken using the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) phonetic alphabet. Aircraft registration numbers ...
British Midland International United Kingdom: 3 — Merged with British Airways in 2012. Brussels Airlines Belgium: 4 10 10 Canada 3000 Canada: 4 — Launch customer of A330-200, ceased operations in 2001. Cathay Dragon Hong Kong: 29 — Ceased and merged operations with Cathay Pacific in 2020 due to COVID-19. Older batches of A330-300 was retired.
British Airways had seven production aircraft in commercial service: G-BOAC (204) The flagship of the fleet (because of its BOAC registration) first flew on 27 February 1975 from Filton. It made its final flight to Manchester Airport – where a "glass hangar" was later built at the viewing park for its display – on 31 October 2003 after ...