I don’t think it afected too many “warbird” types. Was the Sunderland still in the UK then (G-BJHS) because I do remember it getting blown around on one occasion.

I know a few Cubs and such like were damaged on a private strip just off the M3 near Basingstoke when a hangar roof collapsed.

Chuck Berry’s “Promised Land” has a line – “Workin’ on a t-bone steak on a Connie”.

No specific types mentioned but Typically Tropical’s “Barbados” has lots of pretty accurate ATC chatter and The Beatles “Back in the USSR” features the sound of a turboprop (possibly a Viscount).

Some former British colonies or current members of the Commonwealth were issued registrations beginning with the letter V, as in Australia (VH), India (VT) and the Bahamas (VP-BXX). Most of the early issues had prefixes linked to the name of the country but as time moved on and the more obvious letter combinations were used up, newly independent countries (eg – former African colonies) found themselves being issued with unusal combinations. This trend has continued in recent times with the emergence of new European states following the disollution of the USSR and Yugoslavia.

The American “N” numbers appear to have ben allocated without any reference to national identity.

The initial national letters were issued in 1919. Since then, some have changed significantly. Some countries have also changed the presentation of their registrations too. For example, Japan used to be J followed by four letters. Since WW2 it has been JA followed by numbers. Up until the 1930s, German aircraft were D followed by numerals. It was later changed to D followed by four letters.

No one placed firm orders Concordes except for BOAC and Air France. All the other airlines placed easily cancelled options.

For the record, BA was formed in April 1974 with the merger of the following airlines:

BEA
BEA Scottish Division
BEA Channel Islands Division
BEA Helicopters
BEA Airtours
BOAC
Cambrian Airways
Northeast Airways (formerly BKS)

A number of other engineering, marketing and holiday divisions were also incorporated into the merger.

The legal ball was set rolling in 1972 but it took two years for all the various components to be prepared for the official launch of the new airline.

The Concorde at Farnborough shot is probably 1992 or 1994. It can’t be 1995 because there was no airshow in ’95 (they are only held on “even” years).