BGB - MK Airlines

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:airplane: Airline Name
:united_kingdom: MK Airlines

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IATA: 7G / ICAO: BGB / Callsign: BRITISH GLOBAL

:globe_showing_europe_africa: Country of Origin
:united_kingdom: United Kingdom

:airplane_departure: Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
B742F (747-200F) (8 operated),

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Love the description for this photo ‘This 742 picks up 78 horses, this is the biggest horses transport ever done out of the Netherlands. The horses will go to the World Champions Tour in Doha, Qatar. All the horses together have a value of nearly €100.000.000!!’ :rofl:

747-200B(SF) (5 operated),

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DC85F (Douglas DC 8-50F) (6 operated),

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Aircraft description: Delivered to SAS Scandinavian Airlines Cargo on 19th March 1966 as OY-KTC, then with KLM as PH-DCZ from April 1970 to July 1981, then Inair Panama as HP-927, CTA Canafrica from December 1985 as N855BC, Nationair from 5th May 1986 as C-GMXP, Aero Uruguay from November 1986 as CX-BLN, Connie Kalitta from 1st June 1989 as N855BC. From February 1991 with MK Airlines and stored here at Manston, UK. Broken up in December 2013. Lelystad Museum of Holland tried to save it but could not raise the necessary funds and was planned to be preserved in KLM colours using its old registration PH-DCZ. Sad it never got saved. Taken from JetPhotos.

DC86F (Douglas DC 8-62F)

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(Douglas DC 8-63F)

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:pushpin: Why should this airline be added?
Another British cargo airline, operating the 747-200F which has recently been confirmed for Christmas. Originally founded in Ghana in 1990, the airline flew between Ghana and LGW with a leased DC8 prior to moving the airline to the UK and upgrading to 747-200s in the early/mid 2000s. The airline went under in 2010 and one of their 747-200s was left at Kemble Cotswolds airport, which I saw many times while passing to see/returning from my Great Aunt in Westbury (Bit of nostalgia as to why I would like to see it as after my Great Aunt died in 2016, never went back down there). Sadly, that aircraft was scrapped in 2022 with only the cockpit being saved by a museum.

Street view image,

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It was a regular airline at HKG and would be fantastic to see in-game with the new 747-200s due to the lovely chrome finish part of the fleet had.

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100% should be added as it be good to have their B742F available for freight out of Nairobi and Accra. Use to see these and the DC-8s at Manston airport in Kent, doing the daily Nairobi flights bringing in vegetables for British Supermarkets.

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