2nd October 1982.

[billsamuels]

One of my many jaunts with Northwest across the pond. This one was with a group of travel agents showing off our network and the myriad of destinations we covered... If my memory serves me correctly, we took the agents to Yosemite National Park (camping no less) which was one of the best trips I ever did... White water rafting, bit of hiking, seeing some of the vineyards over in Napa Valley, plus of course San Francisco for a few days sightseeing... Anyway, on with that days log.

Gatwick - our departure point.
N621US B747 Northwest
N607US B747 Northwest (our chariot to Minneapolis)
VP-WKU B707 Air Zimbabwe

Slime pickings at LGW, as you can imagine I was pretty busy with about 15 agents in tow showing them our lounge, airport check-in, meeting some of the team at LGW and looking over our 747’s... 

Minneapolis
N144US DC-10-40 NWA (Chariot to SFO)
N148N Citation
N158US DC-10-40 NWA
N201US B727-2 NWA
N203US B727-2 NWA
N270US B727-2 NWA
N271US B727-2 NWA
N275US B727-2 NWA
N276US B727-2 NWA
N290US B727-2 NWA
N292US B727-2 NWA
N293US B727-2 NWA
N4514W B737-2 Western Air Lines
N471US B727-51 NWA
N56RD Lear Jet 24
N800BH Citation
N81JJ Jetstar 6
N86TP Jetstar 8
N984Z DC-9-31 Ozark Air Lines

San Francisco.
N103EX BAC 1-11 Pacific Express
N106EX BAC 1-11 Pacific Express
N251US B727-2 NWA

Sadly the two 1-11’s were only scrapes as they were ex BUA ‘103’ seen as G-ASJF and ‘106’ as G-ASJI both on 23.11.1968 at LGW.

Cheers lads.

Bill