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More scanned slides from the John Mounce collection:

BUA G-ASJJ

BEA G-AVMJ @ MAN

G-AVOE - Cambrian, and the first 1-11 I ever flew on (BA JER-NCL in 1979)

Always liked this version of the livery -G-AXCK @ (the old) Munich

HZ-BL1 - apparently belonged to the Bin Laden family.

Every one of them interesting. Any idea of dates?

A very busy man with a camera , fantastic pictures of truly fantastic aircraft .

Thanks to John for taking them and AA for taking the time to get them on here to show us all .

I'd also be interested in knowing where the photo of HZ-BL1 was taken. The pictures of the Cambrian and BEA 1-11s are beautifully reproduced I must say.

They've scanned well; John says most of the slides are in very good condition and he's got them properly stored; any taken at Hatfield were taken by a chap called Dick Winfield.

Only clue in the Bin Laden one is that there's a BA 737-200 by the hangars in the background, so it's possibly LGW, but that's just an educated guess on my part.

I would suggest the HZ-BL1 photo is taken before January 1984. There is a photo of her on Air-Britain site taken at Heahtrow, and I think the paint is more worn at the Air-Britain photo compared with the one above.

http://www.abpic.co.uk/popup.php?q=1065034

The Bin Laden group and Ahmed Baroom, both of whom had registered 1-11s, were involved in sponsorship of the Williams Grand Prix team in the late-70s along with other Saudi interests. I thought maybe that might help date the picture, though of course the bin Ladens would have had many Europe-wide interests at the time.

HZ-BL1 was earlier registered HZ-MFA and the registration change came in January 1981. The paint scheme that HZ-BL1 has in the photo above was applied before mid September 1977. This last date MFA was visiting BCAL at Gatwick to be maintained.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/BAC-111-401AK-One-Eleven/0056860/L/

In other words, we have now narrowed in the time span to be between January 1981 and January 1984.