Hello 253D, and welcome to our little thread here. Anyone who worked on the One-Eleven is a friend of ours, and I'm wondering if you have any interesting experiences of our "Bus-Stop Jet" to share.

Just trivia, but I believe you had three series 200, and the two series 400. The 200s were from the real pioneer batch of the aircraft, ordered by Freddie Laker when he was in charge at British United. They had moved on to British Caledonian, then were sold to Pacific Express for a couple of years, when they ceased operations Cascade took them, then they went on to Florida Express, then to Braniff Mk 2, and this got them to 1990. Two were then scrapped but the third escaped to Africa, ending up in the Congo where it seems to have faded away some time in the late 1990s (British Aerospace rather lost touch with these ones in darkest Africa over time).

I see that Cascade also leased the aircraft out to various other operators for a month or two during their tenure, which rather points to them not having had enough work for them.

Your two series 400s were former American Airlines, then sold after just a few years (which American later went on record as regretting), in their case both to Bahamasair, where they spent 11 years in a colourful livery, then to Cascade, on afterwards to Air Illinois, some corporate owners, and then ended up together at Guatemalan operator Tikal Jets. We seem to have mentioned many of these operators upthread at various times.