On 17 March 1977, a British Airtours Boeing 707 being used for pilot training crashed and caught fire during its take-off roll at Glasgow Prestwick Airport. All four crew members on board survived.

The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype first flown in 1954, the initial 707-120 first flew on December 20, 1957. Pan Am began regular 707 service on October 26, 1958.

Dec 21, 2021 · At the time it became British Airtours in 1974, it operated a fleet of nine Boeing 707 aircraft. Under British Airways, these were later replaced by new 737-200 aircraft (ordered alongside aircraft for the main airline).

Apr 7, 2018 · 1970s BEA Boeing 707 Landing and Taxiing from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit http:/...

May 4, 2015 · Apparently this was because BEA had started services to North Africa and BOAC believed that Africa was 'their patch'. According to an old timetable, 1980, British Airways were operating the 707 on the following routes: London-Cairo (BA150/151) London-Tehran (BA200/203) London-Bermuda-Nassau-Kingston-Panama City (BA264/265)

October 2014: Ex-British Airtours Boeing 707 at Entebbe, Uganda. An unusual blog update this time, with a selection of pictures showing the remains of a Boeing 707-436 that has been languishing in the Ugandan sun next to Entebbe airport for the past three decades. The aircraft was originally registered G-APFL and delivered to BOAC in 1960.

Over the coming years, British Airtours acquired additional Boeing 707s which British Airways had inherited from BOAC. In June 1982, British Airtours launched twice-weekly scheduled services between Gatwick and Newark using Boeing 707s in an all- economy configuration.

Oct 15, 2024 · Aviation History and Nostalgia - British Airways Boeing 707s - Once BOAC/BA began to take delivery of the 747-100, how did they redeploy their 707s? I know some of the Conway models found their way to BEA/British Airtours. Were they still used for west coast USA routes beyond the reach of the early 747s or perhaps

- BEA Airtours operated seven Boeing 707s between 1971 and April 1974, when the airline was renamed to "British Airtours". All of their 707s were powered with Rolls-Royce Conway engines. 1960-built G-APFD was finally registered as N888NW and broken up at Ft. Lauderdale in 1986.

May 18, 2020 · To the uninitiated the new plane looks like the iconic Boeing 707. However it was always only going to be a proof of concept prototype and differed greatly from what was to become Boeing’s first jet airliner.