Built 1965 and used for Automatic Landing development before deliverd to BOAC in June 1967. Merged into British Airways in April 1974 and repainted during the first year. Wfu by BA in 1981 and sold to RAF for K4 Tanker conversion as ZD235. Wfu at St Athan 2002 and broken up 2004. This is not my photo, it belongs to my friend Nils Edvin Johansen who have asked me to scan and share the photo. What a joy it was as G-ASGG came on the BA643 flight from LHR this summer day. It made a lowpass along rwy 24 before landing, and is photographed while taxing out for departure back to LHR as BA644

Photographer: Not known.

First flight as G-ASGG in 1965. Used for testing. development and certification of Elliot Autoland equipment before delivery to BOAC in 1967. Merged into British Airways in 1974. To the RAF as ZD235 in 1981 and stored at Abingdon. Flown to Filton for K.4 conversion in 1991 and delivered to the RAF in 1996. Withdrawn from use at St.Athan in 2002 and scrapped in 2004.

photo by Udo Schäfer

Taken from then new international terminal. The cluster of hangars in background was best spot for aviation photographers into the 1970s. Accessible and no fences. It was declared off-limits by the mid 1970s amid greatly increased airport security. But then the area had lost its appeal as less traffic passed when the east-west runway ceased to be the main runway.