This beautiful aircraft gave many years of service and I was lucky enough to fly on her once between DUS and BHX. Rather sad that she is now rotting away in Africa.

Ex "European VIP first" but maintaining the black tail...

Taxiing to stand 34.

For me, even back in 2000 the visit of a 1-11 was very welcome at Glasgow.

Heading to runway 23.

BDXO accumulated 61,796 flying hours with British Airways between Apr 1987 and Oct 2001, after which it was stored at Cardiff, Mojave and then Manston. A sale to Air Atlanta Icelandic fell through and on 31 Oct 2003 the aircraft was flown to Amsterdam to be prepared for delivery to European Aircharter. It was painted in their colours, but never delivered. It remained stored at Schiphol, engineless as seen here. The aircraft was eventually broken up here in late 2005. Only the cockpit section survived, which went to the MBO College of Amsterdam Airport in nearby Hooddorp, for instructional use.

This is one of the old British Airways "classics" and now operates for European Aircharter, this same aircraft operated a limited number of flights from Glasgow to Orlando over a 4 week period.

Lined up for departure from Runway 05 at Glasgow during late morning. (Canon D60 250mm)

Decelerating on rw24 after arriving from BFS.

Lined up for take off on runway 23

Rolling past after landing on Runway 06 at 5-50pm. (Canon D60 140mm)

European had a short mid Summer flight program to Orlando this year and this was a paricularly hard landing touching down earlier than normal and doing a 100 yard hop. (D60 1/500th & F9.5 105mm)

Taxiing to runway 23

A part of the story of G-BDXO... Between April 1987 and October 2001 this machine logged nearly 62000 hours on British Airways flights averaging more than 7 hours and then was stored at Cardiff, Mojave and Manston. 2003 ended halfway the preparations for its new owner in the UK, XO being parked engineless at Schiphol-Oost.