Aviation Nostalgia Thread

[LBAYORKIE]

Does anyone renember this Leeds based airline?

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[White Heather]

Does anyone renember this Leeds based airline?

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Sadly, yes!

 

[Seasider]

I first visited LBA in 1968 and I don't recollect it.

 

[Gazza]

I think they went bust in 1962. Almost before my time.

 

[oldendays]

Hispania. Did this airline ever bring their Caravelles to LBA? If they did I don't remember seeing them, only the Boeings.

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

Hispania. Did this airline ever bring their Caravelles to LBA? If they did I don't remember seeing them, only the Boeings.

No Caravelles, just Boeing 737-200, Boeing 737-300, and Boeing 757-200.

BH

 

[LBA4EVER]

Hispania. Did this airline ever bring their Caravelles to LBA? If they did I don't remember seeing them, only the Boeings.

Who remembers when hispania went bust and one of their 757s was stuck at LBA for some time? I seem to recall a 737 on the apron too?

 

[White Heather]

Who remembers when hispania went bust and one of their 757s was stuck at LBA for some time? I seem to recall a 737 on the apron too?

1989. One 733 and one 757 impounded at LBA. The leasing company for the 733 had a cherry picker brought to the airport and a guy sprayed the tail all white where it was parked. Seemed an odd thing to do but I was watching him do it from my bedroom window. The French airline, Aeromaritime took over the Hispania 737 flights for the rest of the season.

 

[oldendays]

A question for our older members. Back in the 1970s and 80s when we only had six self-manouevering stands at the airport, what is the largest or longest aircraft you remember seeing parking, simply by following the markings and without a marshaller? For me, it would be the DC9-30 or the BAC1-11 500. I remember in 1985 the JAT 707s and BKT TriStars parked on about stand 4 to begin with but they definitely had marshal guidance. Eventually these and other larger aircraft parked on the apron extension, mainly facing west.

Thankyou.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

A question for our older members. Back in the 1970s and 80s when we only had six self-manouevering stands at the airport, what is the largest or longest aircraft you remember seeing parking, simply by following the markings and without a marshaller? For me, it would be the DC9-30 or the BAC1-11 500. I remember in 1985 the JAT 707s and BKT TriStars parked on about stand 4 to begin with but they definitely had marshal guidance. Eventually these and other larger aircraft parked on the apron extension, mainly facing west.

Thankyou.

Balair DC6?

 

[White Heather]

A question for our older members. Back in the 1970s and 80s when we only had six self-manouevering stands at the airport, what is the largest or longest aircraft you remember seeing parking, simply by following the markings and without a marshaller? For me, it would be the DC9-30 or the BAC1-11 500. I remember in 1985 the JAT 707s and BKT TriStars parked on about stand 4 to begin with but they definitely had marshal guidance. Eventually these and other larger aircraft parked on the apron extension, mainly facing west.

Thankyou.

Lots of 737 200s too. I know a Constellation of the US Air Force came in too.

 

[oldendays]

The longest of the Constellation types is 116 feet and the DC6B comes in at 105 feet. The BAC 1-11 - 107 feet and the DC9 - 119 feet. Looks like it's the DC9, which would mainly have been British Midland aircraft, with occasionals from Martinair and Aviaco. The Transavia Caravelles should too have fitted nicely. All assumes wingspan wasn't an issue with the terminal building on one side and the apron taxiway on the other.

 

[Seasider]

Largest I have seen are Viscounts from longgggg back.

 

[oldendays]

I still wonder what took LBA so long to adopt nose-in parking; it wasn't until 1997 that this occurred, whereas the likes of East Midlands and Newcastle had gone down that route years previously. I accept there may have been an issue with stands 1-6 being close to the runway protected strip but no reason not to have nose-in further down, unless airport management wanted a degree of consistency.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

I still wonder what took LBA so long to adopt nose-in parking; it wasn't until 1997 that this occurred, whereas the likes of East Midlands and Newcastle had gone down that route years previously. I accept there may have been an issue with stands 1-6 being close to the runway protected strip but no reason not to have nose-in further down, unless airport management wanted a degree of consistency.

Nose in parking maximises the available apron space available but requires tugs etc. In those days there were fewer aircraft and no shortage of apron space.