One of the British Airways Boeing 747-400s painted in a retro uniform for the aircraft’s centennial is to be protected as a film and gathering scene.
The airplane (G-CIVB) conveyed the Negus and Negus shading plan at first received by the carrier following its rise in 1974 from the merger of BOAC and British European Airways.
It joined a refreshed rendition of the Union banner plan of BEA on the balance with the ‘Speedbird’ logo of BOAC on the button. G-CIVB was one of four 747-400s painted a year ago to check a long time since the principal trips in 1919 by British Airways heritage carrier AT&T.
English Airways says G-CIVB – one of the last pair of its 747s to leave London Heathrow on 8 October – will be for all time based at the Cotswold Airport, south of Gloucester.
Kemble Air Services, the administrator of the air terminal, says it marked an agreement on 23 October to buy the airplane. It will change over aspect of the inside into a film, business and conferencing focus, and private-enlist setting.
It expects the airplane will be available to people in general from spring 2021 and means to utilize part of the returns from functions to help flight related grants.
“We’re happy Cotswold air terminal can give one of these airplane another home and another rent of life,” says new British Airways CEO Sean Doyle.
G-CIVB worked almost 13,400 trips subsequent to joining the aircraft’s armada in February 1994.
English Airways has just revealed that another 747-400 is to be positioned at Dunsfold air terminal for film and TV work.
