British Airways – G-CIVD and the Retirement of the 747-400s

The photo above is from the press office of British Airways and is of G-CIVD today, on its last flight from London Heathrow. It’s the first of the 747-400 fleet that British Airways are retiring early due to the current aviation crisis. G-CIVD was delivered to British Airways on 14 December 1994 and the airline think that it has flown for 115,276.8 hours on 13,364 flights.

It’s a shame that I don’t know anyone with a sufficiently big garden, otherwise I’d like the idea of buying one and parking it up …..