C/n 864 - G-ASGN

Date
11 April 1963	Registration reserved.
1 May 1968	First flight.
7 May 1968	Delivery to BOAC as G-ASGN.
9 June 1968	Operated flight BA538 from New York to Prestwick and Manchester.
5-6 November 1968	Operated flight BA120 from Nairobi to Zurich and London.
11 March 1969	Operated flight BA509 from London to New York.
22 July 1969	Operated flight BA914 from London to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Rome and Rome to Bahrain.
17 April 1970	Operated flight BA260 from Lagos to Accra, then to Rome and London.
9 September 1970	Hijacked after leaving Bahrain for Beirut while operating flight 775 from Bombay to London. Flown to Dawson's Field, Jordan after refuelling at Beirut.
12 September 1970	Destroyed at Dawson's Field by PFLP along with a Swissair DC-8 and a TWA 707.
18 November 1970	Registration cancelled.

1. As G-ASGN was only in service for just over two years, there are not all that many photos of this airframe.
2. Keith Till spotted this Super VC10 in Manchester on two occasions.
3. A Palestinian guerilla walks past the hijacked VC10.
4. The remains of G-ASGN. Have a look at the Hijackings page for more about this story.

BOAC	Second version of BOAC 'Golden Speedbird' scheme, golden edge on cheatline removed and cheatline now arcs smoothly down towards the nose without the step of the previous scheme.