Talk:Northeast Airlines (UK)

	United Kingdom portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Aviation: Defunct airlines

This article is within the scope of the Aviation WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.AviationWikipedia:WikiProject AviationTemplate:WikiProject Aviationaviation articles

This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion not met Supporting materials: criterion not met

This article is supported by the Defunct Airlines task force.

Fleet Details[edit]

I'm not sure that an exhaustive list of every single aircraft is appropriate for the main article, but I have compiled the following list to support the numbers that I have added to the BKS/Northeast Airlines Fleet History section. The data comes from a wide variety of (reliable) sources, mostly backed up by the CAA database.

Airspeed AS57 Ambassador; (five) G-ALZR, G-ALZT, G-ALZW, G-AMAC, G-AMAD
Bristol Britannia; (four)¹ G-ANBD, G-ANBH, G-ANBK, G-APLL
Bristol Freighter; (one)² G-AMLJ
Douglas C-47 Dakota; (seven/eight) I have found seven, but I may have missed one; G-AIWD, G-AIWE, G-AMSF, G-AMVB, G-AMVC, G-ANAF, G-APPO
Hawker-Siddeley HS748; (five)³ G-ARMW, G-ARMX, G-ARRW, G-ASPL, G-ATAM
Hawker-Siddeley Trident; (four) G-AVYB, G-AVYC, G-AVYD, G-AVYE°
Vickers Viking; (three) G-AIKN, G-AJBR, G-AJJN - all three particularly camera-shy!
Vickers Viscount; (twelve) G-AOYH, G-AOYL, G-AOYO, G-AOYR, G-APEX, G-APEY, G-APNF, G-ARER, G-ARGR, G-ATTA, G-AVED, G-AVIY,

It is more than likely that BKS never owned/operated twelve Viscounts at the same time; this is simply a list of all those that passed through their hands at some point. The same also applies to the C-47s.

¹ another Bristol Britannia (G-ANCD) is sometimes shown as once belonging to BKS, and there is a rare photograph showing it wearing Northeast titles, but it was one of five ordered by BKS, with the order cancelled before delivery. G-ANCD then reverted back to Bristol Aeroplane Co, becoming their Series300 demonstrator. ^[1]^[2]

² a second Bristol Freighter (G-AHJD) passed through BKS hands, but only for scrapping at Leeds / Yeadon airport

³ most/all of these HS748s were still owned by Avro/Hawker-Siddeley, so I presume they were leased to BKS. This may also explain the unusual titles 'BKS Prop-Jet Avro 748'. However BKS is clearly the operator of these aircraft, and that is the main requirement here.

° Trident G-AVYE was one of a pair of ex-Channel Airways Tridents, except this particular aircraft went directly to BEA, then British Airways. The CAA records ownership subsequently changing to Northeast, but it was never painted in their colours, and of course two years later Northeast were subsumed into British Airways anyway, hence it almost slips under the radar. WendlingCrusader (talk) 16:41, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

[1] ttps://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1191747

[2] ttps://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1326031

[1]

[2]