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Post by mw5 on Jun 4, 2013 17:52:28 GMT 1
Any ideas of this seen at Manchester during the 1970s?  |
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Post by alanbear on Jul 30, 2014 17:10:10 GMT 1
Looks like an ex Pan Am 707 321 anumber of people opperated them including BMA i was in charge of the 707 eng for the airline i am sure it wasnt theres as there doesnt appear to be any registration.
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Post by kevmul on Jul 30, 2014 19:41:58 GMT 1
Might it be an Aer Lingus 707?
Kev
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Post by deltabravo on Sept 2, 2014 18:10:15 GMT 1
It's wearing ex PIA colours, a 707-320 (turbojet engines), so its probably one of the British Midland examples...
DB
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Post by acklington on Sept 8, 2014 22:07:33 GMT 1
I have an identifiable photo of it somewhere in my collection, probably a BMA/leased out example as already stated.
I'm travelling a lot the next 6 weeks, so it may be sometime before I find my photo. So take a raincheck in the meantime and I'll get back to you on this thread!
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Post by acklington on Sept 16, 2014 9:07:06 GMT 1
Hmmmm, I've had a trawl through my photo collection, and the answer is not very obvious! I have photos of BMA 707-300s in various 'leased-out' schemes, including Pakistan International (green), Kenyan (red), Syrian (blue), and Tunisian (red). The green Pakistan examples include G-AYVG, G-AYXR, and G-AZJM, but on all of them the green fuselage trim is much more substantial than in your photo.
So I then went back to the idea of yours being an Aer Lingus example, but that doesn't work either because the Aer Lingus 707s didn't have the ventral fin.
The size of the fuselage trim line on yours is identical to the early Pan Am 707s, so it appears to be a Pan Am trim, repainted green. Many of the BMA 707s were ex-Pan Am, so it could be G-AYBJ(N719PA), G-AYVE(N757PA), G-AYVG(N720PA), G-AZWA(N727PA), G-BAEL(N724PA), or G-AYXR(N730PA). These were obtained from 1970 onwards, and an early 1970s date would seem to apply, given the Pan Am style of the fuselage trim.
BMA leased-out their 707s to Air Algerie, Air Inter(France), Bangladesh Biman, DETA(Mozambique), East African, Gulf Air, Iraqi, Kenya, Kuwait, Libyan Arab, Malaysian, Nigeria, Pakistan International, Sudan, Syrian Arab, Tunis Air, and Zambia.
Sorry I can't help further, but maybe some of this might give a clue to someone else on the forum?
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Post by theavgasdinosaur on Jan 2, 2015 13:57:28 GMT 1
Could it have been the Iranian one that was stored here for months 'years' I recall it was American registered NxxxRN with the RN replacing its former PanAm registration.
Be lucky
Dave
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Post by mw5 on Jan 7, 2015 14:53:47 GMT 1
Afraid not. N473RN was present from August 1979-February 1980, this shot was taken earlier.
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