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Yet more Kirkwall Airport goings on from Mr Derek Shearer - picture is undated.
[Date guessed - Steven]
Picture added on 11 February 2014 at 20:01
BA used that livery from 1973 to 1984, but I was startled to learn the airline still had Rapides that late in the day. In fact they didn't. Not really. Google tells me BA hired G-AKOE for a season of special publicity flights in 1980, for which it was given a paint job in the livery of the day. I suppose this might have been one of the publicity flights. Apparently the aircraft is still in storage and potentially capable of being made airworthy again.
Added by Ian Hourston on 11 February 2014
I shall ask the photographer for the date next time I see him.
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Added by Al Hine on 13 February 2014
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