Aircraft Photo of ZS-XGE | British Aerospace BAe-748 Srs2A/351 | Transkei Airways | AirHistory.net #803283
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:ZS-XGE
Aircraft Original Type:Avro 748
Aircraft Generic Type:British Aerospace BAe-748
Aircraft Version:British Aerospace BAe-748 Srs2A/351
C/n (msn):1770
Operator Titles:Transkei Airways
Aircraft Name:Ulundi
Location
City / Airport:Johannesburg - OR Tambo InternationalMap
Country:South Africa
Airport Codes:ICAO: FAOR   IATA: JNB   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:May 1980
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 803283
Photo Comment

Transkei Airways was the national airline of the Republic of Transkei, a homeland set up during the apartheid era in South Africa. It mainly flew services linking Transkei with major South African cities. This 748 first flew from Woodford in June 1979 as G-BGPR and delivered Transkei Airways in September 1979. Remaining in South Africa until 2004, it flew with Care Airlines, Intensive Air, and Branson Air. To Best Aviation as S2-AAT in 2004. Withdrawn from use at Cox's Bazar when the airline ceased operations in 2010. Still there in 2018. Photographer unknown

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