Showing posts with label 1968/12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1968/12. Show all posts

7 March 2012

29th December 1968

N4362F 61n 18w 1221 F390 ECHO 1244, destination Keflavik NAS

PanAm Falcon 20, N4362F

6 March 2012

22nd December 1968

VV 52183 66n 10w 1657 F240 65.30n 13w 1708 EG/Egilsstadir 1716 EL/Ellidavatn next, destination Keflavik NAS

US Navy P-3A from VP-44 Squadron, 152183

4X-FPZ departed Marseille, ETA Paris/Le Bourget 1850

[Photo: taken at London/Gatwick, © APN/P.Keating] 

Israeli Defence Force Boeing 377M, 4X-FPZ/096 "Yoofat".
This flight tried to raise Paris on 5626 for one hour and eventually his report was relayed via Iceland.
This machine was re-registered from 4X-FOD and struck off charge on 1st October 1973 and used for spares for 4X-FPW/015, which in turn was struck off charge on 1st December 1975

MAC 21082 44.23n 35w 1819 8,000' descending to 6,000' in severe clear air turbulence, 44.05n 40w 1935. Position report relayed via QF530

USAF C-124C Globemaster, 52-1082

N4376F 61.30n 55w 2117 F390 60n 56.30w 2132 Hopedale next.

Falcon 20, N4376F on delivery from PanAm to Sigma Airways. Had departed from Shannon and position report relayed via Sondre Stromfjord.

4 March 2012

20th December 1968

Navy Air Vac 152175 departed Keflavik NAS, 61n 13w 1747 F210 GOLF 1715

U S Navy P-3A from VP-44 Squadron, 152175

PH-DNV 55n 50w 2246 F330 56n 40w 2334 56n 30w 0018

DC-9-32 on delivery to KLM, PH-DNV

VP-BCD 60n 62w 2237 F220 64.30n 55.28w next HB/Holsteinsborg (66.56n 53.42w) direct SF/Sondre Stromfjord 0047. After crossing 64n descend to cross HB level at F160. Destination Keflavik NAS.

[Photo: VP-BCD taken at Prestwick in November 1964 © Ken Marshall]

Bahamas Airways Vickers Viscount 702, VP-BCD returning to Field Aircraft Services Ltd., via Prestwick and noted at East Midlands (UK) on 22nd December 1968 enroute to Wymeswold, Leicestershire, UK. It was subsequently re-registered G-APOW on 9th May 1969 and ended its days at East Midlands airport the same year. It was finally broken up for scrap in February 1970.

VP-BBV 64n 55.28w F230 routing HB/Holsteinsborg direct SF/Sondre Stromfjord 0017. Destination is Keflavik NAS.

[Photo: VP-BBV taken at Wymeswold, UK in March 1967, © Andrew Fraize]

Bahamas Airways Vickers Viscount 702, VP-BBV returning to Field Aircraft Services Ltd., via Prestwick and noted at East Midlands (UK) on 22nd December 1968 enroute to Wymeswold, Leicestershire, UK. It was subsequently re-registered G-APPX on 28th March 1969 and leased to British Midland Airways the following month. In July 1971 it was leased to Air International Charter Co (Gibraltar) Ltd., and subsequently operated with Cambrian Airways, British Air Ferries, Air Anglia, and Alidair. I August 1975 its tail unit was transferred to Viscount F-BMCG, withdrawn from use and the following month it was noted with the tail from F-BMCG temporarily fitted. It was broken up for scrap during August 1977.

28 February 2012

18th December 1968

MAC 37846 61n 30w 1845 F230 DELTA (63.05n 25w) 1940 destination Keflavik

USAF C-130E with 438 Military Air Wing, 63-7846

G-AMCA 60n 10w 1739 F100 61n 12.30w 1842 GOLF 2004

[Photo taken at Manchester, Ringway - August 1975 ©  R.A. Scholefield]

Fairey Surveys Douglas C-47B Dakota 4, G-AMCA copied on 8913
Fairey Surveys operated this aircraft from October 1950 'till May 1976, having previous served with the Royal Air Force as KN487. It subsequently served with Air Atlantique for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency - Pollution Control. In April 2005 it arrived at Lelystad Aviodrome, Netherlands for preservation, pained as 'PH-ALR', where it presently resides. 

27 February 2012

4th December 1968

Convair 98G 56n 15w 1931 F220 climbing F240 56n 20w 2010

Gulf Oil Company, Convair CV-440, N98G. Had previously come eastbound from Bangor to Glasgow on 29th November 1968.
This machine was re-registered N98GL in 1971 and later N57RD in 1975 with RDC Marine Inc. It became N565EA in 1997 with ERA Aviation and is current with Air Chatams, NZ since 2005, as ZK-CIE, a Convair CV-580.