HS.125 500th Sale Fly-in 29th October 1980

[brucel]

Does anyone have a full list of the attendees at BAe's 500th 125 sale fly-in at Hawarden on 29th October 1980? The December 1980 edition of 'Flypast' contains an article about it on page 301, but it only lists 17 aircraft, with a potential 18th. The famous photograph of the number '500' formed by parked aircraft on the runway uses 19 aircraft, so there were at least that number present. Other than the plan view of the '500', I haven't seen any other photographs of this event to check aircraft identities. BAE Systems Heritage does not have any BAe publicity material for the 125 programme in their archive, as it was handed over to Raytheon in 1993 and this was all binned when Hawker Beechcraft went bust in 2012. I'm looking for a photograph suitable and available for publication of this event, and also for the the 600th sale fly-in held on 23rd May 1985 for which I have also not been able to source an illustration for a forthcoming publication.

[jetdragon]

Hi brucel

I'm sorry I don't have a full list of attendees for the 500th as I was overseas at the time.

Fuelling records aren't much help either as all visitors were lumped into one total issue.

Apart from the 125's though, the following were there:

G-AHBL		DH.87B Hornet Moth	8135	U.H Hamilton
G-AOTI		DH.114 Heron 2D	        14107	Avtech Ltd
G-AREA		DH.104 Dove 8	        04520	British Aerospace PLC
G-CBIA		BAC 1-11 Srs.416EK	H166	British Island Airways
G-VTII	WZ507	DH.115 Vampire T.11	15127	Vampire Preservation Group

You probably have a better list than me of the 125's as I only have

G-AVPE		HS.125-F3B/RA	25127	British Aircraft Corporation
G-BJCB		HS.125-600B	256065	J.C Bamford Excavators Ltd
G-HHOI		B.Ae.125-700B	257097	Trust House Forte PLC / Field Aircraft Services Ltd
G-IBIS		HS.125-3B/RA	25171	Ibis Ltd / McAlpine Aviation Ltd
G-OBAE		B.Ae.125-700B	257094	British Aerospace PLC
G-TJCB		B.Ae.125-700B	257127	J.C Bamford Excavators Ltd
XW930		HS.125-1B	25009	Royal Aircraft Establishment - Bedford

There were also 2 Dominies

cheers

JD

[brucel]

Thanks JD. The Flypast list is as follows:


G-ASNU 1             25005 Northern Engineering Industries Ltd

G-AVDX 3B/RA     25113 Civil Aviation Authority

G-AZVS 3B         25132 Lease Air Ltd/Eastern Airways

G-BATA 400B         25257 Beecham-Imperial Aviation Ltd

G-BAYT 600B         256012 Management & Music Agency Ltd

G-BAZA 403B         25272 British Aerospace, Aircraft Group

G-BAZB 400B         25252 Short Brothers and Harland Ltd

G-BFAN F600B         25258 British Aerospace PLC

G-BFSO 700B         257028 De Beers International Air Services Ltd

G-BGGS 700B         257061 British Aerospace, Aircraft Group

G-BJCB 600B         256065 J.C. Bamford Excavators Ltd

G-EFPT 700B         257020 Save Energy Services Ltd

G-HHOI 700B         257097 Trusthouse Forte Airport Services Ltd

G-IBIS 3B/RA         25171 IBIS Ltd

G-OBAE 700B         257094 British Aerospace, Aircraft Group

N605W 3A/RA         25136 Management Jets Worldwide Inc

XS733 Dominie T1     25050 Royal Air Force No.6 FTS

XS736 Dominie T1     25072 Royal Air Force No.6 FTS

XW930 1             25009 Royal Aircraft Establishment


Bruce L

[jetdragon]

Thanks Bruce

Looks like AVPE is one of your missing birds. I have reservations about TJCB being there, will have a dig into my source documents to see if I can confirm.

cheers

JD