Court Line suspended operations two weeks after this photo was taken and this aircraft made the last Court Line flight, arriving at Luton on August 16th from the Caribbean. G-BAAA & 'B were acquired by Cathay Pacific. G-BAAB became VR-HHW, to V2-LEM, C-GTSI. Scrapped in December 2000 at Marana.

Became PT-TYV, LV-MEX, VR-BED, G-IIIH, broken up in 2001

With latest "C" logo on tail

Photographer: Georg Fischbach.

slide scan from the NK collection. - Courtline suspended operations in August 1974, and their two TriStars were acquired by Cathay Pacific. This one here was last flown by Air Transat as C-FTSI and was withdrawn at Marana around 1999.

Delivered to Autair as G-AVOF in 1967. To Cambrian Airways in 1969. Merged into British Airways in 1974. To British Island Airways then to British Caledonian in 1983 and to Dan-Air in 1984. To Britt Airways as N392BA in 1985 then to Okada Air as 5N-AYT in 1987. Withdrawn from use at Benin City by 1997 and later scrapped.

slide taken by the late Norbert Kröpfl. - After the collapse of Court Line in August 1974, this airliner left Europe for services in South America, flying for Transbrasil, Austral and Patagonia Air. In 1996, the BAC 1-11 returned to Bournemouth and was broken up after a period of storage in 2001.

The donkey seems little bothered by the pink monster rushing past, but four months later Court Line was gone. The aircraft followed her orange sister-ship back to Lockheed and eventually on to Cathay Pacific in 10.77 as VR-HHW. After operation by Caribbean Winds as V2-LEM in 1996, she was purchased by Air Transat and flew as C-GTSI till scrapped in 2000 by Arizona Aircraft Support