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Tees-Side / Teesside International Photos 1987

Photos taken at Tees-Side Airport between 1st January - 31st March, then at the rebranded Teesside International Airport from 1st April - 31st December 1987. Click on a thumbnail for the full size photo. Special thanks to Trevor Jones, who took most if not all of these photos in his role as the official airport photographer from 1968-1995. Thanks also to Brian Hunter for much of the data, Steve Curtis for sending in many of the original uploads taken by Trevor and Richard Bowater for scanning them. If you can add any additional information please feel free to contact us.

Jan 87 G-BLRT Short SD-360-100 Air UK G-BLRT is seen in January 87 on lease to Air UK. Her Maersk scheme is still evident, after a short lease, and after many owners over the years she was scrapped at Edinburgh in 2009.	06 Feb 87 D-AMUR Boeing 757-2G5 LTS The aircraft became EC-HQV and eventually broken up at Opa Locka, FL.	06 Feb 87 D-AMUR Boeing 757-2G5 LTS The aircraft became EC-HQV and eventually broken up at Opa Locka, FL.	06 Feb 87 D-AMUR Boeing 757-2G5 LTS The aircraft became EC-HQV and eventually broken up at Opa Locka, FL.
06 Feb 87 D-AMUR Boeing 757-2G5 LTS The aircraft became EC-HQV and eventually broken up at Opa Locka, FL.	06 Feb 87 D-AMUR Boeing 757-2G5 LTS The aircraft became EC-HQV and eventually broken up at Opa Locka, FL.	13 Feb 87 G-BBAE Lockheed L-1011-100 TriStar British Airtours Delivered to British Airways in Oct 74, it was leased to British Airtours on 21 Apr 85 until it was transferred to Caledonian Apr 88, following a few sub leases to Worldways as C-FCXB it was scrapped at Abu Dhabi in Sep 04. It visited on 13th Feb 1987 - already a veteran of some 38 visits with British Airways during 1974 and 1975 its visit this time was in connection with the Schools Abroad ski programme to Salzburg.	13 Feb 87 G-BBAE Lockheed L-1011-100 TriStar British Airtours Delivered to British Airways in Oct 74, it was leased to British Airtours on 21 Apr 85 until it was transferred to Caledonian Apr 88, following a few sub leases to Worldways as C-FCXB it was scrapped at Abu Dhabi in Sep 04. It visited on 13th Feb 1987 - already a veteran of some 38 visits with British Airways during 1974 and 1975 its visit this time was in connection with the Schools Abroad ski programme to Salzburg.
13 Feb 87 G-BBAE Lockheed L-1011-100 TriStar British Airtours Delivered to British Airways in Oct 74, it was leased to British Airtours on 21 Apr 85 until it was transferred to Caledonian Apr 88, following a few sub leases to Worldways as C-FCXB it was scrapped at Abu Dhabi in Sep 04. It visited on 13th Feb 1987 - already a veteran of some 38 visits with British Airways during 1974 and 1975 its visit this time was in connection with the Schools Abroad ski programme to Salzburg.	13 Feb 87 G-BBAE Lockheed L-1011-100 TriStar British Airtours Delivered to British Airways in Oct 74, it was leased to British Airtours on 21 Apr 85 until it was transferred to Caledonian Apr 88, following a few sub leases to Worldways as C-FCXB it was scrapped at Abu Dhabi in Sep 04. It visited on 13th Feb 1987 - already a veteran of some 38 visits with British Airways during 1974 and 1975 its visit this time was in connection with the Schools Abroad ski programme to Salzburg.	13 Feb 87 G-BBAE Lockheed L-1011-100 TriStar British Airtours Delivered to British Airways in Oct 74, it was leased to British Airtours on 21 Apr 85 until it was transferred to Caledonian Apr 88, following a few sub leases to Worldways as C-FCXB it was scrapped at Abu Dhabi in Sep 04. It visited on 13th Feb 1987 - already a veteran of some 38 visits with British Airways during 1974 and 1975 its visit this time was in connection with the Schools Abroad ski programme to Salzburg.	Mar 87 G-SJAD Dornier Do-228-200 FR Aviation Flight Refueling Ltd had the Fisheries patrol contract, and G-SJAD is see on a rainy day in March 87. She is still flying as 5Y-BYC in Kenya with Air Traffic Nairobi, after serving in Australia and Germany.
22 Apr 87 116712 Canadair CF-116A Freedom Fighter Royal Canadian Air Force - 434 Squadron One of four aircraft (116716, 116740, 116758) made a visit to Teesside on 22 April 1987, along with them were Silver Stars 133345 and 133094 and a Hornet 188918. This aircraft is now preserved with Canadian Air Sea and Land Museum at Markham, Ontario though stored as a hulk only. The influx of Canadian military aircraft which descended on Teesside on 22 April 87 were from 419 (Moose) Squadron at Cold Lake, Canada on exercises at Baden-Sollingen in Germany. 419 Squadron was based at Teesside (MSG) during WWII and the chance for a few pilots to see the squadrons old haunts was too good to miss. The Hornet was from 421 Sqdn but the pilot was ex 419 and he had another 419 guy in the back seat ! On departure the Hornet went tech causing a 24 hr delay and requiring a couple of visits by Hercules 130320 from Lahr to sort out the trouble.	22 Apr 87 133345 Canadair CT-133A Silver Star Royal Canadian Air Force It is now a gate guard at Greenwood, NS and carries 133434 as false marks.	22 Apr 87 188918 McDonnell Douglas CF-188B Hornet Royal Canadian Air Force - 421 Squadron	Apr 87 G-MLDO Dornier Do-228-202K Malinair Dornier Do-228 G-MLDO is seen on stand 3 in April 1987. Malinair were part of the Air Ecosse group, performing mainly oil related charters, they operated a Gatwick schedule at the time this photo was taken. She became G-OALF with Suckling Airways in 1988, then G-MAFE with Cobham, and was broken up in 2013 at Bournemouth.
1987 OO-SDD Boeing 737-229A Spantax First delivered to Sabena in June 74, it was leased to Spantax as EC-EEG between 02 Jul 87 and 28 Apr 88, it operated out of Bournemouth with Palmair as G-CEAF until it was WFU and broken up in Jan 2010, it is seen here on lease to Spantax its first visit was 12 June 87.	26 Jun 87 PH-MCB Airbus A310-203 Martinair Delivered on 29 Nov 84 and remained with Martinair until 26 April 96, it did operate as a freighter with FedEx Express as N415FE until 26 Oct 09 when it was WFU and moved to Victorville for storage. I saw the aircraft at Teesside on 26 June 1987 when this shot was taken it was operating an outbound MOD charter to Akrotiri just after midnight.