The old and the new. On Manchester Aiport's 50th anniversary BCAL's DC-10 races the BBMF Lancaster to Runway 24. The DC-10 is on the LGW-MAN-JFK schedule and the Lancaster, the prototype of which was built at Ringway in 1941, will give a short demonstration flight.

Gatwick was rather quiet in those days. Note adjacent British Caledonian VC10

Typical Jersey taxi shot of a regular visitor. Sold by BA as 9Q-CKI in November.94 and broken up at Kinshasa by 2005

This lovely livery was very short lived, being replaced a couple of months later by a completely different BCal Commuter colour scheme (see other scan) for the remainder of the lease of this single Viscount from BAF from 3.85 to 5.86. Scrapped at SEN 1996

Initially N322F "Pole Cat" with Flying Tiger in 1965, this 707 was bought by Caledonian in 12.68 as "County of Angus". Re-registered G-BDCN in 5.75 and sold to TAAG Angola in 10.77; had three different D2- registrations but dbr in hard land at Luanda on 8.2.88

The fourth BAC 1-11 to be built, delivered to BUA in 11.65, was sold to Pacific Express as N101EX in 12.81. After service with Florida Express and Braniff, latterly as EI-BWI, wfu by BAF at Southend in early 1990 and b/u 1.94

A later variation of the markings carried by this aircraft in the mid-Eighties