Talk:Northeast Airlines (UK)

Fleet Details
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. 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.
 * 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,

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.

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)