Interesting Delivery Method of BAC 1-111s from Britian to US

[aharon]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

If any of you are curious to know how BAC 1-11 planes were delivered from England to any airline in America, here is fantastic example of how this plane was delivered to Braniff airline as seen below that any of you can recreate historic delivery flights using your flight sim platform.

Delivery Details:Ship N1543's Flight Log from Hurn, England, to Dallas Love Field for March 10 through March 13, is shown below:

Thursday, March 11, 1965

Depart BAC Hurn, England, Plant 410AM CST from BAC 1-11 factory
Arrive Prestwick, Scotland 520AM CST
Depart Prestwick, Scotland 628AM CST
Arrive Keflavik, Iceland 854AM CST
Depart Keflavik, Iceland 1010AM CST
Arrive Sondrestrom, Fjord, Greenland 1240PM CST
The flight encountered a snowstorm upon arrival at Sondrestrom but the aircraft performed perfectly.
Remain overnight at Sondrestrom

Friday, March 12, 1965

Depart Sondrestrom, Fjord, Greenland 548AM CST
Arrive Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada 842AM CST
Depart Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada 925AM CST
Arrive Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1129AM CST
Remain overnight at Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Saturday, March 13, 1965

Depart Montreal, Quebec, Canada 748AM CST
Arrive Newark, New Jersey 1001AM CST
Depart Newark, New Jersey 1204PM CST
Arrive Nashville, Tennessee 208PM CST
Depart Nashville, Tennessee 247PM CST
Arrive Dallas Love Field 458PM CST

Regards,

Aharon

[Tom/CalClassic]

A Braniff example. Interesting they used Goose Bay (which was more typical for military aircraft) rather than Gander.

[Herman]

Interesting account of this BAC 1-11 delivery flight.

Herman

[capflyer]

Mar 14, 2021 13:20:02 GMT -5 Tom/CalClassic said:

A Braniff example. Interesting they used Goose Bay (which was more typical for military aircraft) rather than Gander.

I think in this case it's more a distance thing. From Sondre to Goose is 823nm. Sondre to Gander is 1094nm. Also, I think it's a misnomer about Goose and Gander. Goose is simply used for any flight coming from Iceland and/or Greenland because it's closer. Most scheduled passenger flights were usually coming from Ireland or the UK and thus Gander was closer, so that created the impression that Goose was more military operations since most of the MATS flights were coming from stops in Iceland and/or Greenland before coming through Canada.