• British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd...
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  • Look up Boac or BOAC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boac may refer to: Boac, Marinduque, a municipality in the central Philippines British Overseas...
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    Boac, officially the Municipality of Boac (Tagalog: Bayan ng Boac), is a municipality and capital of the province of Marinduque, Philippines. According...
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    commitment involved. Nevertheless, the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) found the Type IV's specifications attractive, and initially proposed a...
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    BOAC Flight 911 (call sign "Speedbird 911") was a round-the-world flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) that crashed near...
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    BOAC Flight 781 was a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation passenger flight from Singapore to London. On 10 January 1954, a de Havilland Comet...
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    formerly designated as Region IV-B. Its capital is the municipality of Boac, the most populous in the province. Marinduque lies between Tayabas Bay to...
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  • BOAC Flight 777A was a KLM flight scheduled as a British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal...
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    Paglilihi), commonly referred to as Boac Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church and cathedral in the town center of Boac, Marinduque, in the Mimaropa region...
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    BOAC engineers had examined the aircraft for Flight 201. Previously, on 10 January 1954, the same team had undertaken a preflight inspection of BOAC Flight...
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    absorbed into BOAC-Cunard before delivery of the second 707, in June 1962. BOAC-Cunard leased any spare aircraft capacity to BOAC to augment the BOAC mainline...
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    Speedbird (section BOAC)
    by the airline and its successors – British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British Airways – for 52 years. The term "Speedbird" is still the call...
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  • list of the municipal mayors of Boac, Marinduque, since the Philippines gained independence in 1898. 22nd Mayor of Boac 1978 - 1980 Pablo N. Marquez After...
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  • Arm (FAA), Army Air Corps (AAC) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) during the Second World War. Bell Airacobra (RAF), one example for carrier...
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    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Boac (Lat: "Dioecesis Boacensis") is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Created suffragan...
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    considered in late 1946, BOAC decided that an entirely new design was preferred. After wrangling between the Ministry of Supply and BOAC over costs, the go-ahead...
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    relatively small number of VC10s were built, they provided long service with BOAC and other airlines from the 1960s to 1981. The VC10 was also used from 1965...
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    (Leased from BOAC)  United Kingdom British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)  Israel Israeli Air Force  Nigeria Nigeria Airways (Leased from BOAC)  Sweden...
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  • from 1967 until 1989. Originally a six-hour race running under the name BOAC 500, the event was eventually extended to 1000 kilometres under a number...
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    production aircraft in commercial service: G-BOAC (204) The flagship of the fleet (because of its BOAC registration) first flew on 27 February 1975 from...
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    A British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Lockheed L-749A Constellation crashed and caught fire as it attempted to land at Kallang Airport on 13 March...
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    On 24 June 1956, a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) four-engined Canadair C-4 Argonaut airliner crashed into a tree on departure from Kano Airport...
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    than to the small Jordanian airstrip. On 9 September, a fifth aircraft, BOAC Flight 775, a Vickers VC10 coming from Bahrain, was hijacked by a PFLP sympathizer...
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    Airways Corporation (BOAC) were the principal operators of the "North Star", with the CPA examples known as the "Canadair Four" and BOAC examples known as...
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    BOAC Flight 115 was a scheduled passenger flight from Heathrow Airport to Palmietfontein Airport in Johannesburg with several intermediate stops. On 26...
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    On 2 May 1953, BOAC Flight 783, a de Havilland Comet jetliner registered G-ALYV and operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation, broke up mid-air...
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    G-AOVD was a Bristol Britannia 312 operated by BOAC which crashed near Christchurch, Dorset, in the south of England on Christmas Eve 1958, killing two...
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    Islands, cause unknown; aircraft owned by BOAC and operated by both airlines on Sydney-London services (BOAC crews operated London-Karachi and Qantas crews...
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    Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA), were first raised in 1953 as a result of difficulties in attempts by BOAC and BEA to negotiate...
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  • Imperial Airways, and its successor, the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), along with Qantas and TEAL, operated the type in commercial service. Upon...
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