British United Air Ferries

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British United Air Ferries (BUAF) was a British airline operating in the 1960s, that later became British Air Ferries which became British World Airlines before finally became insolvent in 2002?. The airline was formed as a result of a merger between the Silver City and Channel Air Bridge airlines in January 1963.

Trading as British United Air Ferries Limited, BUAF had offices at Rotterdam Airport, Netherlands, and specialised in cross-channel ferrying of cars and their passengers to and from Continental Europe.

BUAF used an assortment of aircraft types, including Bristol Freighters and Superfreighters, and Aviation Traders Carvairs and operated from Lydd Ferryfield airport in Kent, amongst others.

[edit] List of aircraft

Aviation Traders ATL.98 Carvair
- G-ANYB Golden Gate Bridge
- G-AOFW name not known
- G-APNH Menai Bridge
- G-ARSD Chelsea Bridge
- G-ASDC Pont du Rhin
- G-ASHZ Maasbrug
- G-ASKG Channel Bridge
- G-ASKN Pont d'Avignon
- G-ATRV name not known

Bristol Type 170 Freighter Mk.21E
- G-AHJI

Bristol Type 170 Superfreighter Mk.32
- G-ANWK

[edit] Trivia

In the opening scenes of the 1966 film That Riviera Touch, Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise, better known as Morecambe and Wise, along with their elderly car, fly from Britain to Le Touquet, France, in a British United Air Ferries Bristol Superfreighter.
A British United Air Ferries Carvair is seen transporting Auric Goldfinger and his car in the James Bond film Goldfinger.