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Registration: G-ONPN

Construction Number: 25063

Model Hawker Siddeley HS-125-1B

Operator: Private

Airport: East Midlands Airport (Castle Donington) (EMA / EGNX), UK - England

Photographer: Brian Bickers Collection

Date Taken: 1980 (approximate)

Date Submitted: 03/05/2018

Was G-BAXG up to 6/80, de-reg 2/87. Likely to be earlier than 18.6.81 when noted at Luton in ncs (white overall with 2 green stripes). This could be at EMA for repainting, as paintwork looks a little worn. Was regn as G-ONPN by Shirlstar Container Transport for lease to Alhaji Nasiru Dantata (owner of DantaCola) with regn G-ONPN (G-O National Party of Nigeria). Whilst operated by him carried 'DantaCola' logo by door. It was then sold to Satellite Ltd owned by his brother Alhaji Usman Dantata, a prominent Nigerian businessman of the 1980s, then transferred to Avonmore investments another of his companies, before being regn to him in Nigeria as 5N-ASZ. Photographer Roger Davis.

Picture ID:1602872

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