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Post by kevmul on Oct 3, 2010 16:56:35 GMT 1
Just reading through October's Airliner World and its says in an article that Air Manchester folded in September 1982 but tried to resurrect itself by moving operations to Liverpool in October 1982. Apparently it only lasted 13 days! I doubt that anyone would even remember this brief residence of Air Manchester but maybe someone can shed some light on it.........  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2010 17:14:59 GMT 1
Just reading through October's Airliner World and its says in an article that Air Manchester folded in September 1982 but tried to resurrect itself by moving operations to Liverpool in October 1982. Apparently it only lasted 13 days! I doubt that anyone would even remember this brief residence of Air Manchester but maybe someone can shed some light on it......... See this thread further down... derbosoft.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=history&action=display&thread=3839Cheers, Dave |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2010 17:29:59 GMT 1
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Post by kevmul on Oct 3, 2010 17:32:42 GMT 1
Thanks Dave/Ste I should've guessed there would already be something on here about it!  |
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Post by buspilot on Oct 3, 2010 18:54:56 GMT 1
G-SURE was sold on 8th September 1982 and registered to Greyhound Leasing for operation by British Air Ferries. It was returned to BAe in November 82 and reverted to G-AVOE in May 1983 when it joined the Dan Air fleet on lease.
It was not and was never registered to Air Manchester but to an Isle of Man company, Keydeck Limited. This company leased the aircraft to Air Manchester.
As I recall, all these companies were rumoured at the time of failure, to be linked with an IOM Investment company and the failure of The Savings and Investment Bank , who subsequently went down for £37million. All ended up in liquidation, when the pack of cards collapsed. It was certainly a very tangled web. However the rumours and links were never substantiated.
I also recall a further rumour, that when the ABTA and or ATOL bond from the IOM bank was called upon on the failure of Air Manchester/Sureway that they had no assets and the bond was worthless. Creditors of the Savings and Investment Bank finally received 29p in the £. Again this was only here say at the time.
Sureway/Air Manchester had intended to acquire sister 1-11, G-AVOF, registration G-BMAN being allocated, but the registration was not taken up and the purchase fell through on the company's failure.
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Post by phb on Oct 4, 2010 17:39:55 GMT 1
The Sureway information is most interesting - but the 1-11 registrations are wrong (the ones given are both Britannia 312s).
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Post by buspilot on Oct 4, 2010 18:21:29 GMT 1
Letters transposed. G- AVOE and G-AVOF are the correct registrations.
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