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British Airways fleet Aircraft In service Orders Passengers [3] Notes F J W Y Total Airbus A319-100: 27 — — — 40 103 143 One aircraft, G-EUPJ, is painted in a retro BEA livery. This was to celebrate the centenary of British Airways and still remains painted to this day. Airbus A320-200: 64 — — — 48 132 180 3 aircraft (G-EUYP/R/S ...
A Boeing 747-400 wearing the Chelsea Rose livery takes off past two other 747s in the Chatham Dockyard livery, c. 2002. In 1997 British Airways (BA) adopted a new livery.One part of this was a newly stylised version of the British Airways "Speedbird" logo, the "Speedmarque", but the major change was the introduction of tail-fin art.
Scandinavian Airlines: The logotype of the abbreviation of the airline's full name on top of the light beige fuselage and blue tail section, with "Scandinavian" on the engines and the underbelly of the plane. South African Airways: South African flag colors plus sun, adopted in 1997 (replacing the springbok antelope).
British Airways purchased the internet domain ba.com in 2002 from previous owner Bell Atlantic, [161] 'BA' being the company's initialism and its IATA Airline code. [162] British Airways is the official airline of the Wimbledon Championship tennis tournament, and was the official airline and tier one partner of the 2012 Summer Olympics and ...
The first General Electric-powered Boeing 777 was delivered to British Airways on November 12, 1995. [15] The aircraft, with two GE90-77Bs, entered service five days later. Initial service was affected by gearbox bearing wear concerns, which caused the airline to temporarily withdraw its 777 fleet from transatlantic service in 1997. British ...
The Short SC.7 Skyvan (nicknamed the "Flying Shoebox") [1] is a British 19-seat twin-turboprop aircraft first flown in 1963, that was manufactured by Short Brothers of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Featuring a basic rugged design and STOL capabilities, it was used in small numbers by airlines, and also by some smaller air forces.
During British Airways trials in April 1985, Concorde was offered as a target to NATO fighters including F-15 Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, Grumman F-14 Tomcats, Dassault Mirages, and F-104 Starfighters – but only Lightning XR749, flown by Mike Hale and described by him as "a very hot ship, even for a Lightning", managed to overtake Concorde ...
British Airways Flight 009, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or as the Jakarta incident, [1] was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with stops in Bombay, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne. On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-236B registered as G-BDXH.