British Overseas Airways Corporation was the British state-owned national airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued operating overseas services th
Pictured in 1970, this BOAC Boeing 747 marked the first arrival of a wide-bodied airliner to Manchester Airport.
A BOAC Boeing 314 Clipper lands on Lagos Lagoon, 1943
BOAC Avro York freighter operating a scheduled service at Heathrow in 1953
BOAC Short Solent 3 G-AHIN Southampton served the airline's route from the UK along the Nile to Johannesburg between 1948 and 1950
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British European Airways, formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which was founded in 1946 and ceased operations in 1974.
British Overseas Airways Corporation
…World War II. After the passing of the Civil Aviation Act 1946, European and South American services passed to two further state-owned airlines, British European Airways (BEA) and British South American Airways (BSAA). BOAC absorbed BSAA in 1949, but BEA continued to operate British domestic and European routes for the…
BEA's Hawker Siddeley Trident, pictured in 1967.
BEA flight attendant lapel badge
BEA operated many Douglas DC-3s, later naming them Pionairs, between formation in 1946 and disposal of the last in May 1963.
Vickers Viking 1B ("Admiral" class) G-AHPO in BEA's early bare metal finish livery at Manchester, England, in August 1952.