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Hello Mike,

 

Thanks for your reply. I publish an occasional 'Eagle Archive News' via the web. It you would like to recieve copies as pdf files then let me have you email address and I will add you name to the list. I can also send previous copies as pdf files. The reason for the the News is to inform people what we hold in the archives.

 

Regards

 

Eric

 

 

Hi Eric & welcome!Although I now live near Melbourne I was in Shropshire a few weeks ago visiting some friends who live in Child's Ercall, and stopped at the RAF Cosford museum on my way back. What a great museum it is! Lots of very interesting aircraft. I assume you have visited there?

 

I worked for British Airways at Heathrow for about 11 years when I lived in the UK, in the IT department. Great fun watching all the planes on a day to day basis..

 

Cheers,

 

Neil[/QUO

 

Hello Neil, Thanks for your comments. Its amazing I live not to far from Childs Ercall in a village called Fauls Green. Yes you are right I have visited Cosord often. I often get old magazines of flight etc from their bookshop to add to the history section of our airline 'Eagle'. Also to take a look at our old Eagle Britannia G-AOVF. They have painted in RAF colours. Eagle cut in the large freight door on the port side by the front crew door. It was often used for flights to Australia.

 

Regards

 

Eric

Hello Guys, thanks for your comments re the greatest UK independent airline of the 50/60s. If you would like to see more about the Eagle Group which includes British Eagle see our archive website britisheagle.net

 

Any comments or pictures about the airline would be of interest. We have a large archive.

 

Regards Eric

 

 

Thanks, so I got in contact with my grandfather and he said it was a turbo prop, and was definitely operated by British eagle. Does anyone know which routes they used in late 1964?Thanks, Ben

Hello Ben, I am new on this site I found it when I was researching our flights to Australia for the £10 pomy flights. I was employed by Eagle in the sixties and run the British Eagle Airlines archives here in the UK. We have a number of passenger manifests which includes the registration of the aircraft. If you are interested and let me have the dates your farther arrive in Australia we may hold the passenger manifest which you might not have and would be interested in a copy.Let me know.

Regards Eric

 

 

Hello,

 

May I introduce myself. I worked in the UK in aviation since 1961. The airlines that I worked for were British Eagle International Airlines, Seaboard World Airlines Inc. and EL AL Israel Airlines. Served as an avionic tech in each of the airlines..

 

Although very much retired I run the British Eagle Airline Archives here in the UK.

 

I came across this website as a result of some research for the archives regarding immigrant flights in Britannia aircraft. The fact that Eagle ran many immigrant flights to Australia in the sixties has meant that we now have collected a fair number of Passenger manifest which also give the registration of the aircraft. I am more than willing to pass on this information to relatives.

 

Regards eric