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    Airframe Family: Avro 748 Andover / HS-748 / BAe-748
    Latest Model:HS-748-2a
    Construction Number:1756
    Last Civil Registration:G-ORAL
    Latest Owner or Location:Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford Airport, Woodford, Cheshire East, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1977

    Constructed as a HS-748-2a.

    1977

    To BWIA International Airways with new c/r 9Y-TFS.

    19 December 1986

    To Chieftain Airways PLC with new c/r G-GLAS.

    10 March 1988

    To Scottish European Airways Ltd keeping c/r G-GLAS.

    10 July 1988

    To Scottish European Airways Ltd with new c/r G-BPDA.

    18 February 1989


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: G-BPDA HS748 Series 2A/334 Scottish European. - Named European Spirit of Strathclyde. Resting between flights on the apron at Glasgow.

    1 July 1993

    To Emerald Airways keeping c/r G-BPDA.

    August 1999

    To Emerald Airways with new c/r G-ORAL.
    Operated with markings: The Paper Plane

    Scrapped.
    Only the cockpit survives.

    To Speke Aerodrome Heritage Group, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
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    25 March 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Now preserved on the Apron of the old Liverpool Speke Airport - now the Crowne Plaza Hotel

    To Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford Airport, Woodford, Cheshire East, England.
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    Terry Fletcher
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