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    Airframe Family: Bristol 100/200/300 Britannia / CL-28/CP-107 Argus / CL-44/CC-106 Yukon
    Latest Model:175-308 Britannia
    Construction Number:12922
    Last Civil Registration:G-ANCF
    Compressed ID:Bristol 175-308 cn 12922 cr G-ANCF
    Latest Owner or Location:Britannia Aircraft Preservation Trust, Liverpool, Speke, Merseyside, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a 175-308.

    1958

    Civil registration G-ANCF (BRITANNIA 308F, 12922) reserved but not taken up.
    Reserved by British Overseas Airways Corporation.

    1958

    Civil registration N6597C reserved but not taken up.
    Reserved by Capitol Airlines.

    23 July 1958

    Civil registration N6597C (BRITANNIA 305, 12922) reserved but not taken up.
    Reserved by Northeast Airlines Inc, Boston, MA.

    23 July 1958

    Civil registration, N6597C, cancelled.

    23 July 1958

    To Northeast Airlines Inc, Boston, MA with new c/r N6597C.

    October 1959

    Converted to a 175-308.

    16 December 1959

    To Transcontinental with new c/r LV-PPJ.

    1960

    To Transcontinental with new c/r LV-GJB.

    November 1961

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Buenos Airies.

    2 March 1964

    To British Eagle International Airlines with new c/r G-ANCF.

    July 1964

    Converted to a Freighter.

    From 11 December 1968 to 20 January 1976

    To Monarch Airlines, Luton keeping c/r G-ANCF.

    February 1974


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Monarch Airlines yellow and white Bristol Britannia G-ANCF taxies to a parking bay in front of the Perth Airport passenger terminal building in February 1974.The Britannia was on its regular Air Ministry charter flights between Britain and Adelaide in Australia

    February 1976

    To African Cargo Airways with new c/r 5Y-AZP.

    8 August 1976


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: 5Y-AZP : Bristol Britannia 308F : African Safari Airways at Luton Airport

    From 10 January 1977 to 3 February 1984

    To Invicta International Airlines, Manston Airport, Kent with new c/r G-ANCF.

    3 December 1978


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1978 photo at Manston UK

    21 February 1984

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    1985

    To Roger Hargreaves/Britannia Aircraft Preservation Trust.

    1988

    Dismantled and sections stored at Brooklands and Quedgeley in Gloucestershire.

    September 1996

    Stored dismantled in the Bristol Aero Collection at Kemble.

    March 2007

    To Britannia Aircraft Preservation Trust, Liverpool, Speke, Merseyside, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    25 March 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Now preserved on the Apron of the old Liverpool Speke Airport - now the Crowne Plaza Hotel
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    RZJets
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Terry Fletcher
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