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Bristol 175 Britannia 253 (13397)

 

Date: 11/1975

Location: OST/EBOS

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: the first Bristol Britannia for Young Cargo in basic Royal Air Force colors, but with a red cheatline was delivered at Charleroi on November 4 1975.

Date: 12/02/1976

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: G. Van Belleghem via collection Skystef

Description: first noted in January 1976 with tiny 'in co-operation with Liberia World Airlines' titles below the cockpit, it visited Antwerp on a training flight and it was the second visit of this large turboprop at the Belgian regional airport (the first one did occur 9 days earlier of the same airframe).

Date: 12/02/1976

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: E. Campers via collection Skystef

Description: same scenery seen from the Antwerp control tower.

Date: 24/03/1976

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: seen parked at the small regional airport of Antwerp after another training flight being the third (and final) visit of this big turboprop.

Date: 24/03/1976

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: seen moments before departure.

Date: 24/03/1976

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: seen gracefully taking off and as history would tell, it was the last ever visit of the aircraft at this airport.

Date: 08/05/1976

Location: DUS/EDDL

Photo: Stephan Ehring

Description: seen on a visit at Dusseldorf.

Date: 1976

Location: OST/EBOS

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: bearing in the tail the acronym of the Red Crescent which is an Arabic humanitarian organisation for which Young conducted a few flights at the end of 1976.

Date: 10/1979

Location: STN/EGSS

Photo: Udo Schäfer

Description: it was first seen stored at Stansted on July 17 1977 and as history would tell it never took the sky again. Here depicted without propellers with the cheatline straightened which was done earlier in 1977. After a few years of storage, it was last seen derelict but still intact on January 25 1981 but shortly afterwards scrapped.

 

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