I will be interested too see what British airline he had flown for before, no doubt a 737 operative. It doesn’t surprise me one bit, how many more fake commerical pilots are out there!
We hear all the time about the fake Doctors in the NHS system, I suppose no profession is exempt from this!
Gosh….. these questions are painful and very time intensive to research.
a) Long shot here but you may have done this detective work already. Go on to http://www.airliners.net or http://www.jetphotos.net in the search engine fields type in the airport name you flew in or out of, with the relevant date and see if anyone has uploaded any aviation photos of your aircraft on there, which will ultimatley have the registration number of the aircraft.
b) Failing that back copies of Aviation news list UK airport movements for the month in question with the aircraft registration numbers, backcopies can always be ordered, buy a current edition and it will explain how.
c) Failing that you can take a pen and notebook on your next flight and write down the registration numbers yourself.
I remembered something, during that period of time Manchester airport published a monthly timetable for all movemens out of Manchester. Mainly aimed at plane spotters it consisted of aircraft movements, airline, type of aircraft and respective destinations, times and days etc. This should be able to answer your questions. I do see these timetables for sale now and again on ebay, a good start for searching these out is typing “Manchester Airport” in the search field.
Enclosed is an example of one currently for sale:
Well during that time at Manchester the most prolific charter airlines were Britannia with there 737-200 and Danair with their Comets and BAC 1-11. There were of course other charter airlines operating but I guess on the law of averages and movements it could be one of the above carriers and respective aircraft.
If you can find out from your dad what holiday company he booked with then this may narrow it down a bit further, other than that it’s a stab in the dark and you are likely to spend the rest of your days still pondering about this. Good luck and sleep easy!
Very interesting thankyou for sharing these photos with us, just wondered how organised and equipped this private airfield is? Considering aircraft as big as a 707 operate from there.
Does it have night lighting, traffic tower, radar, ILS, or fire dept etc…
Convair 990, this was the best for me for all the wrong reasons, noisy engines/thrust, airframe rattled, out of date decor, lots of smoke for the environment, can’t beat those old jets!
Unfortunately and I stand to be corrected, I think we are out of time on the Viscounts, I don’t think any more are servicable.
Personally I would love to see a Caravelle flying!
February 16, 2010 at 10:30 pm
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