Named Aircraft?

David Beckham would surely be an excellent name for anything taking to the sky.

I’m convinced he should be knighted for services to penalty taking.

a lot of VS’s names are a playing with the “Virgin” image. Tinker Bell, Hot Lips etc… Bold and rsiky names some of them 😉

TWA had named most of their 727 after PIGS…like N833TW was named “Ham Tram”. The porcine names were not official. Just a result of the pilots’ whimsical sense of humor and could only be identified on the flight decks. Others included

N854TW “CLOUD BOARER”
N831TW “BOEING OINK”
B840TW “SHY PIG”

Why would you call a plane after the most overhyped football team in the world.

Because of the HUGE publicity they get out of it! 😉

Virgin have named all of their planes.

They are either linked to SRB or the cities they fly to:

G-VHOT – Tubular Belle – the song that helped keep the Virgin Record Label allive
G-VFAR – Diana – Lady Diana was a big fan of VS
G-VELD – African Queen – VS fly to S.Africa

Why would you call a plane after the most overhyped football team in the world.

KLM names their planes as follows:
B737-300/400: Sailers and explorers. Most of them Dutch.
B737-800/900: Birds.
B747-400: Large city that are (where) on KLMs route network
B747-300ERF: after old merchant ships
B767-300: Bridges.
B777-200: World heritage sites. However, the first 777 has been named after KLMs founder, Albert Plesman.
MD-11s: famous women

The regional fleet has not been givne names.

Martinair has named its planes after members of the royal family. However, none of the A320s and some of the MD11s and the newest 747 have no names.

SAS of course has the Viking names. I wonder how many have historical meaning, and how many have been made up? 😉

G-BYAP is John Lennon as you said Ben.

There is a BA 747 named the City of Newcastle upon Tyne I think?

BA 737 were names after Rivers, 747 after cities (with the odd person included) 757 Castles, 767 European Cities, L1011 were originally named after roses.

Laker DC10 were all named ‘something’ Belle

Olympic 720’s were also named after rivers (SX-DBI = Pinios River I only know this because I have flown on this aircraft)

G-BNLB is City of Edinburgh, that’s the only one I know. For obvious reasons! 🙂

BA 737 were names after Rivers, 747 after cities (with the odd person included) 757 Castles, 767 European Cities, L1011 were originally named after roses.

Laker DC10 were all named ‘something’ Belle

Olympic 720’s were also named after rivers (SX-DBI = Pinios River I only know this because I have flown on this aircraft)

G-BNLB is City of Edinburgh, that’s the only one I know. For abvious reasons! 🙂

Pablo, the Britannia aircraft that is named after Eric Morecambe, is a Boeing 757-200 which I had mentioned before hand, there is also a BY 757 named after John Lennon, which is G-BYAP I believe.

I think a BY is also named after Lord Nelson (not sure the type or reg though)

Pablo, the Britannia aircraft that is named after Eric Morecambe, is a Boeing 757-200 which I had mentioned before hand, there is also a BY 757 named after John Lennon, which is G-BYAP I believe.

I think it is G-BYAA that is Sir Matt Busby, although it could be AB. One of the a/c was also named after employee of the year.

Of course, all the Jet2 a/c are named, Jet2 Malaga,Leeds Bradford,Prague etc.

BA 737 were names after Rivers, 747 after cities (with the odd person included) 757 Castles, 767 European Cities, L1011 were originally named after roses.

Laker DC10 were all named ‘something’ Belle

Olympic 720’s were also named after rivers (SX-DBI = Pinios River I only know this because I have flown on this aircraft)

British Airtours / CKT’s L1011s were named after Lochs (apporpriately) and Air UK Leisure’s initial 734s were named after Saints (Flagship St …) – the first letter of the saint’s name being the final letter of the registration G-UKLx.

The Qantas 744 fleet are named after major Australian cities like City of Melbourne and so on

IIRC Britannia also had aircraft named after Alcock, Brown, Rolls and Royce. Remember seeing the early Britannia fleet when they had 737-200’s and transitioned into the 767 and 757 fleet.
I think BA named their 1-11’s after counties (or was it rivers)
OAW

I remember when Britannia named most of there aircraft, I think all there 737-200’s were named after famous people.
Jean battern
Amy Johnson

I even think that there 767-200’s were also named, Lord Mountbattern I recall was on one of them.