The amazing 'Paithani' tail colourscheme is taxiing out of Terminal 4 for a RWY 27L departure to the States.

"Pathania" Worldcolours-scheme

Delivered new 23rd Apr 1987 and transferred to European Aviation Dec 2003 but the aircraft was impounded at EHAM (Amsterdam) when the airline went bust and it was scrapped Nov 2005

With the Indian-designed "Paithani" World Images fin marks.

BDXO accumulated 61,796 flying hours with British Airways between Apr 1987 and Oct 2001, after which it was stored at Cardiff, Mojave and then Manston. A sale to Air Atlanta Icelandic fell through and on 31 Oct 2003 the aircraft was flown to Amsterdam to be prepared for delivery to European Aircharter. It was painted in their colours, but never delivered. It remained stored at Schiphol, engineless as seen here. The aircraft was eventually broken up here in late 2005. Only the cockpit section survived, which went to the MBO College of Amsterdam Airport in nearby Hooddorp, for instructional use.

A part of the story of G-BDXO... Between April 1987 and October 2001 this machine logged nearly 62000 hours on British Airways flights averaging more than 7 hours and then was stored at Cardiff, Mojave and Manston. 2003 ended halfway the preparations for its new owner in the UK, XO being parked engineless at Schiphol-Oost.