Essex Airports !

I agree with Pauls comments, anyway, I see no difference in the quality of yours and my photos.

The Boeing 767-300 is one of Roman Abramovichs private planes as you probably know. It used to be seen regularly at Luton too. I’ve often wondered what those unusual looking and non-standard aerials are on the roof, any ideas?

Ooops Steve, never been a TWA plane, see post 5! Been at Stansted since 1998.

How long has the TWA Tristar been there Keith??

A nice clutch of images there Keith….especially the u know what;) Glad you survived your visit to ‘Hazard County’ intact.

tenthije. Wow! thank you for that, what a long and interesting career this airframe has had ! your history ends at 2004, and as my photo shows she is still available for viewing at STN in 2010 …. sorry but I have a lot of time for older airframes that seem to have been abandoned …. I think of the excitement of some of its earlier passengers clambering for their seats to go onto a holiday …. and that she is sitting there, today, watching the same scramble being carried out ..by different people on different airframes ! :rolleyes:

Paul. Hey, thank you for that word ‘Interestingness’ yes that does sum up a lot of what I would like to achieve … an interest in our recent past, things such as the above post, an airframe that has, in its own way, played a part in getting the airline industry to where we are now …..

Keith.

Keith, you talk about achieving the same standard of other photos but what these possibly lack in absolute technical quality they more than make up for in terms of (to use a Flickr word) interestingness! It’s always nice seeing your varied posts, so thanks for sharing them.

I’d also love to know more about that Tristar!

Paul

Would love to know more about this airframe ??

Well, what can I say, it’s a Lockheed Tristar. Anything else you want to know? ;);)

ok, I might have a bit more usefull information as well.

16.12.1976 delivered British Airways ; registered G-BEAL; named Cardigan Bay
03.04.1983 leased British Airtours
18.03.1984 returned British Airways ; named The Red Devil Rose
05/1985 converted -50
01.05.1987 leased British Airtours
14.04.1988 new name of operator: Caledonian
10.04.1989 returned British Airways
06/1989 bought Pegasus Capital ; leased British Airways
08.11.1989 sub-leased Caledonian ; named “Loch Moy”
22.01.1990 returned British Airways
16.03.1990 sub-leased Caledonian
27.10.1992 stored London – Heathrow for maintenance
03.12.1992 returned Pegasus Capital
07/1993 leased Caledonian
30.10.1993 withdrawn from use ; stored London – Gatwick
04.11.1993 returned Pegasus Capital ; stored Roswell
29.05.1994 leased Air Ops ; re-registered SE-DPM [tt 38.498 hours]
03/1995 sub-leased Tajikstan International
04/1996 returned Air Ops
05/1996 returned Pegasus Capital ; leased Caledonian
05/1996 sub-leased Atlanta Airways ; re-registered G-CEAP
08/1996 returned Caledonian ; sub-leased International Airways
11/1996 returned Caledonian
12/1996 stored Cambridge
01/1997 stored London – Gatwick
02/1997 returned to service Caledonian
11/1997 stored London – Gatwick
03/1998 bought Investors Asset Holding
04/1998 leased Classic Airways ; re-registered G-IOIT ; stored Stansted
09/1998 bought Equis Finance
01.10.1998 G – registration canceled
07/1999 bought Marshall Aerospace
01/2000 bought British Airports Authority [ground training equipment]
11.07.2004 seen London – Stansted ; without engines ; bad conditions

source: http://www.eucomairlines.de/prodlist/msn145.html

CloudWarrior. Thank you ! I have just been looking at your Heathrow and Luton photos in another thread and would love to achieve those standards some day ! I will keep on trying (some would say ‘very trying’ ) 😀

Newforest. Yes I did a search on the reg and found it is owned by a romany ??? 😀 … “Yeah bin ome aint I … no wot I mean mate” ???;)

Keith.

Passport to Essex eh! Anonymous 767 P4-MES has a famous football connection of course. 😀

As always, a great diverse collection.