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.

Making a test flight after some structural checks. Not hard to see which places were checked.

In the late seventies Olympic added capacity London-Athens with 747s, SX-OAA climbing from 10R shot from T2 carpark

Touchdown on rw24.

Lightly loaded the 747 could climb dramatically, here leaving Heathrow 10R, when only a few months old.

This beautiful old Classic is pictured taxying out for departure home.

Touching down on Runway 14 at Anchorage.

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.

Taxiing to Freight Parking at 4pm. (Canon D60 145mm)

Delivered new to Swissair in 01.71 as HB-IGA. Operated by TWA from 05.85 until 06.90.

Evergreen 747 braking on Runway 31 as seen from the excellent "Mound" viewing spot at Prestwick. On a nice day you will always find a few photographers here if there are visting Freighters due.

Leased from Atlas Air.