Original blue livery

Also carries a small Air florida logo on the forward fuselage.

Photographer: Clive Head. K64 slide scan. Built March 1969 as G-AWXJ for Autair. Returned to BAC November 1969, Robin Loh 9V-BEF 1971, operating for Air Siam 1972. Pelita PK-PJC 1973, returned to BAC 1979. BIA G-CBIA 1979, Air UK 1980, "new" BIA 1982. Okada Air 5N-AYW 1989, withdrawn Benin City 1997 and scrapped 2016.

slide scan from the NK collection. - When Air UK was formed in 1980, British Island Airways brought four BAC 1-11s into the new airline; only this one, however, got the full blue Air UK colour scheme. Two years later, the name British Island Airways was reactivated; all four 1-11s were transferred to BIA again, G-CBIA lost its blue colours and was operated mainly on European charter routes.

This was photographed during the aircraft's second spell in BIA livery, after the company was reconstituted from the charter part of Air UK.

British Island Airways merged with Air Anglia in 1979 to form Air UK. They then formed a new British Island Airways in 1982 to operate charter flights which ceased operations in 1990. To Okada Air as 5N-AYW in 1989. Withdrawn from use at Benin City by 1997.

Ex-British Island Airways, fully painted in Air UK's blue livery.

Photo via G. Bouma